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- seans9, on 04/15/2008, -2/+68html in the description? are you serious?
- xtmno3, on 04/15/2008, -1/+61DRM does not stop pirates. They find ways to release the same product stripped of its DRM. DRM only screws the honest Joe who has to now play with his DVD in the PC at all times (for no reason), and who has problems running the game because the DRM is flawed and sucks.
People bitch about DRM because it does not fix any problem. It just makes honest people's lives hell.
Of course, this is probably too much to ask from a person whose username is a slightly modified protestment of racial hatred. - U83RMENSCH, on 04/15/2008, -7/+54I have it for PC, so far, other then it turning off every 30 min. with out any errors. it runs smoother, looks nicer, and has shorter load screens then the copy i rented for the PS3. Doesnt make the game any better though :P
- Sedako, on 04/15/2008, -6/+50I've not had any errors or major glitches and I've finished 5 assassinations so far. The game runs very smoothly and looks great (despite being unable to enable multisampling at 1600x1200). The PC controls were also very easy for me to pick up, and using the mouse instead of an analog stick makes free-running seem a lot more accurate than when I played it on the 360.
- hollismb, on 04/15/2008, -1/+43So, does that mean that you rented it on the PS3, played it long enough to determine it's not a good game, and then went and bought the PC version?
- Chompy, on 04/15/2008, -0/+35I'd go far as to say that DRM encourages pirates. The problem wouldn't be so bad if publishers didn't punish their customers so much.
Personally I buy the game, then go download the cracked EXE so that I can play it without jumping through hoops or dealing with DRM-caused crashes and delays. You gotta wonder how many people start out like that and then eventually decide to just skip that first step. - Po0py, on 04/15/2008, -2/+33This is exactly the problem with pc gaming. When the big triple A games reach the pc they are at least six months late and are merely shoddy ports. Gears Of War was the same. And it is the same publishers who cry and winge about the fall of pc gaming. They don't realise that it is their carelessness that is ***** the industry up. No wonder people prefere to pirate pc games nowadays.
Meanwhile, you have developers like Ironclad Games who understand how to be a success on pc. Sins of A Solar Empire is a terrific game and is making them some great profit. It's not a big budget triple A title but it is a fantastic game. And they are brave and trusting enough to release this game without any ***** drm. They understand that to become a success on pc you have to forget about who is pirating your game and start marketing your games to people who actually buy pc games. It's simple ***** logic but some dumbasses out there need it spelled out to them. - mrelusive, on 04/15/2008, -6/+35Who's responsible for this?!
- aaaleman, on 04/15/2008, -18/+46I'm playing it. I've noticed none of these things. Odd.
I don't like the mouse/keyboard controls, so I use an XBox 360 pad and it works beautifully.
If you wanna exit the game without going through 7 menus, hit ALT + F4 and you're set.
Seems the ArsTechnica writer is being a little bitch. - mr.gates, on 04/15/2008, -0/+26Look when its less of a hassle for me to download a game and replace the executable then it is for me to buy the game insert some long as serial number then get the damned disk out every time I want to play it. Yeah I say DRM this DRM that...
- mattyice11, on 04/15/2008, -1/+26I'm assuming the PC version is pirated.
- inactive, on 04/15/2008, -4/+28Alt+f4 sends the application the WM_QUIT message. It is up to the application to deal with it, or even ignore it. It has the exact same effect as clicking on the x in the upper right hand corner of the window, if it were a windowed program. IMO it would break coding convention if the application did anything but safely exit the application.
So your game files are perfectly safe (unless the developer built an application that corrupts files as it safely exits normally), it is a perfectly acceptable way to exit any application as windows is designed that way.
Windows developers do put an exit game option right in the game, it is alt-f4.
Every thing you said in your post was wrong. - zombird, on 04/15/2008, -4/+27They'll blame declining sales on P2P file sharing like they always do.
- RoboDonut, on 04/15/2008, -3/+26Wait.
You're telling me that they're distributing this over Steam AND they're having it send data to Ubisoft Ontario whenever you play?
Doesn't that seem a little redundant? - dupems, on 04/15/2008, -9/+31The controls are fine, I got used to them in like 5 minutes. Mouse/keyboard > controller.
- schizogony, on 04/15/2008, -2/+23/lol>
- schizogony, on 04/15/2008, -10/+27A CONSOLE TO PC PORT GONE TERRIBLY WRONG??!!
IT CAN'T BE!!!!!!! - webcrumb, on 04/15/2008, -1/+18I think you mean,
HTML in the b>description /b>? Are you i>serious /i>? - seanthebond, on 04/15/2008, -13/+28Oh god, the controls on the PC version are hell.
- daridave, on 04/15/2008, -0/+13Welcome to Software Developer Paranoia, aka Stupidity. The funny thing is, because of their anti-piracy measures, I'm NOT going to buy it (won't download it either) !
- Abomonog, on 04/15/2008, -0/+13By bad DRM they mean the pirated copies actually runs better than the store bought version. And it does. The cracked version has none of those issues listed by ARS. It even works on Nvidia cards. Once again it takes the pirates to fix a game that the developers could not.
- Epyik, on 04/15/2008, -1/+14I find it hard to believe this could be any worse than Halo2 for the PC
- strictnein, on 04/15/2008, -3/+15I've resigned myself playing a lot of new games with a wired Xbox 360 controller, since many of the PC game releases are now Xbox 360 ports. It works well, and it's a pretty good gamepad in general.
- badenglishihave, on 04/15/2008, -2/+13I agree... it's a cool concept but everything gets repetitive after a while. Plus imho there are WAY too many cutscenes.
- Shadow82v, on 04/15/2008, -1/+12Leave it to Ubisoft to do that. How bad can you possibly be when you make a RE4 port TERRIBLE?
- devindotcom, on 04/15/2008, -3/+13I play with a gamepad, controls are fine, and the graphics look extremely good. I am finding a few bugs though. But I played for about 5 hours of the leaked version a month ago and found it totally playable.
- FFXIfrohike, on 04/15/2008, -0/+10They complain because it's:
1. a waste of resources on the publisher's side
2. a waste of time on the consumer's side - starf, on 04/15/2008, -0/+9They complain because after paying for the game, if they don't want to violate the TOS, they will have a significantly worse experience than those who do (many of which don't pay for the game).
It used to be that if you paid for a game, you would have LESS problems as well as access to support. - CrimsonFate, on 04/15/2008, -1/+10Well, I thought it was funny anyway.
- di34lot, on 04/15/2008, -1/+10i swapped shift and right click, and it makes alot more sense!... i mean right click for run...WTF!
- Enjia, on 04/15/2008, -0/+8And you should not have to crack a game to play it well.
- robthom, on 04/15/2008, -0/+8Thats funny because the cracked version will probably run much better after the dial-o-bot is removed or disabled. Thats why I only play games that have been cracked and "cleaned up".
- dupems, on 04/15/2008, -4/+12But you could, if you wanted to. :)
- mrelusive, on 04/15/2008, -0/+8These are dark days indeed...
- E3L1, on 04/15/2008, -2/+9BTW: Alt-f4 insta-quits. But I totally agree, the controls are even better on the PC, and it's never crashed one me, only weird bug is the random audio de-sync.
- Osirus1156, on 04/15/2008, -1/+8What the ***** is with the *'s?
- Munky, on 04/15/2008, -2/+9Of course, there's always the Steam model that gets you around the "DRM = tied up CD/DVD drive" issue. Not that Steam isn't without its own issues...
- eddywolf, on 04/15/2008, -7/+13I can't even install the game because of their crappy copy protection.
- dupems, on 04/15/2008, -6/+12I played through the entire game without one crash. It wasn't buggy, the graphics were gorgeous, the controls were very easy to get used to, and the UI was fine. I don't know what the hell this guy is talking about. Buried.
- Philoushka, on 04/15/2008, -1/+7Please, sir, just a few coins!
- ArtCrazy, on 04/15/2008, -9/+15I played the whole game with a 8800GT (in the post it said that those cards didn't work right) and I haven't had ANY problem.. Not ONE crash, nothing. Game's as smooth as possible with max settings @ 1440x900 and max AA. The controls work just fine and they're actually well-done IMO, could be better but still they work just fine. Only complaint I have is that it takes ages to exit... But that's not that big of a problem. About the DRM... It's not like I actually had to deal with it ;)
Anyhow... Buried for inaccurate. (at least inaccurate for me) - KayinAngel, on 04/15/2008, -0/+5SENSATIONALIST ARTICLE HEADLINE HERE!
i've been playing it for a white, and have had ZERO problems with the game, it runs smooth as butter 1680x1050 full graphic and AA settings, and i use a ps2 controller (via usb) so the controls are just dandy.
digg is growing old ***** fast. 90% of articles dugg are useless sensationalist fan-boy fodder designed just to draw traffic. - ayeroxor, on 04/15/2008, -3/+8But, but, 22-inch widescreen monitors are still a whole $198.00! :(
http://www.pricewatch.com/monitors/lcd_22in_wide.h ... - vibrokatana, on 04/15/2008, -3/+8No, no, no. Just use *****, you don't need to censor it.
- Abomonog, on 04/15/2008, -1/+6AMEN...
- strictnein, on 04/15/2008, -5/+10Yeah, quitting the game is an absolute pain in the ass.
- theodenking, on 04/15/2008, -2/+7This exemplifies the problems with Assassin's Creed, it's a great engine, great setting and great story let down by lazy implementation of content.
- acumenprobitas, on 04/15/2008, -0/+5That's how I play. PC hooked up to 32" LCD tv, wireless mouse and keyboard on the couch.
- aznwild0, on 04/15/2008, -1/+5::psst:: Hey kid, over here, keep it down will-ya? I got some sweet cracks for that new game of yas tha'll get it working. Whuddya say?
I don't know why people complain about DRM on the PC. It usually takes minimal effort to circumvent. - RoboHobo, on 04/15/2008, -1/+5Open Steam, choose File > Go Offline. It's not 100% perfect, but it'll let you play on your laptop without internet access.
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