{"id":172,"date":"2010-02-22T12:13:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T02:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/2010\/02\/assassins-creed-2-on-pc-dont-buy-it\/"},"modified":"2010-02-22T12:14:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T02:14:02","slug":"assassins-creed-2-on-pc-dont-buy-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/2010\/02\/assassins-creed-2-on-pc-dont-buy-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Assassin&#8217;s Creed 2 on PC &#8211; Don&#8217;t buy it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a damned shame because I&rsquo;ve been waiting a while for AC2, but now Ubisoft has gone <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/news\/2010\/01\/ubisofts-new-drm-solution-you-have-be-online-to-play.ars\">way over the top<\/a> on their DRM schemes.&nbsp; Their new idea of an &ldquo;acceptable&rdquo; solution is to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/article.php?id=235290&amp;site=pcg\">require you to be online<\/a> the entire game and if you go offline then it boots you from the game (losing your play from the last checkpoint).&nbsp; Frankly that&rsquo;s just stupid and broken compared to the console versions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/article.php?id=235596\">Ubi&rsquo;s response<\/a> to the concerns raised by gamers is <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/news\/2010\/02\/ubisoft-details-drm.ars\">typically dismissive<\/a> and frankly reeks of an expectation that people should throw money at them regardless of the crap they shovel out.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m not playing that way &#8211; it&rsquo;s my money and I can choose to not spend it.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, piracy is a significant concern and this dumb move just made the pirate&rsquo;s product a <em>lot<\/em> more attractive.&nbsp; Good job at alienating your customers, Ubi.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bjtags\">Tags:  <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/drm\">drm<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/assassin's+creed\">assassin&#8217;s+creed<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/piracy\">piracy<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ubisoft\">ubisoft<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a damned shame because I&rsquo;ve been waiting a while for AC2, but now Ubisoft has gone way over the top on their DRM schemes.&nbsp; Their new idea of an &ldquo;acceptable&rdquo; solution is to require you to be online the entire game and if you go offline then it boots you from the game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}