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Anno 2070 takes place in a near-future environment where climate change has forced humanity to adapt to rising sea levels that have left stretches of once-fertile land completely inhospitable. Players need to master new technologies while facing ...
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01-20-12 Ubi changes DRM in Anno 2070
11-17-11 Launch trailer: Anno 2070
11-04-11 Demo available for Anno 2070
10-25-11 Anno 2070 unveils its multiplayer
09-14-11 Walkthrough trailer for Anno 2070
08-17-11 Gamescom Trailer: Anno 2070
08-04-11 Anno 2070 teased for Gamescom
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Ubi's new DRM worse than ever
You better not change hardware all too often if you want to keep enjoying games from Ubisoft Entertainment on your PC.
The people over at Guru3D decided that Related Design's Anno 2070 might be a great game to use as a benchmarking tool for hardware, but things turned out quite unexpectedly.
Apparently, the "three activations limit" as used by Ubi for their new DRM setup, is actually not purely based on your PC. It's even limited to your current hardware. Change hardware three times and you're screwed.
Ubisoft has been having bad press regarding their DRM schemes ever since they implemented any, and it doesn't look like this is going to change anytime soon. I truly wonder how it's possible with so many publishers and so many games out there, that a publisher like Ubisoft continues making mistakes like these. Don't they learn? It's not as if all the other game companies get this amount of bad press regarding their anti-piracy technology.
The people over at Guru3D decided that Related Design's Anno 2070 might be a great game to use as a benchmarking tool for hardware, but things turned out quite unexpectedly.
Apparently, the "three activations limit" as used by Ubi for their new DRM setup, is actually not purely based on your PC. It's even limited to your current hardware. Change hardware three times and you're screwed.
Here's what Ubisofts DRM is doing these days, they don't just verify the number of PCs you work on, nope .. they monitor hardware changes. So once we inserted that GeForce GTX 590 the hardware id # hash changed rendering our activation invalid.
This means that if we'd like to make a VGA performance review on Anno 2070 we'd need to purchase the game seven times. Ubisoft claims that you can send an email towards their support so that the activations are reset, we did so .. yet are still awaiting reaction.
When contacting Ubisoft marketing here in the Netherlands, their reply goes like this: 'Sorry to disappoint you - the game is indeed restricted to 3 hardware changes and there simply is no way to bypass that. We also do not have 7 copies of the game for you'.
Last weekend (the original article was published on Friday), BlueByte unlocked Guru3D's key so they could continue testing hardware with their copy of the game.This means that if we'd like to make a VGA performance review on Anno 2070 we'd need to purchase the game seven times. Ubisoft claims that you can send an email towards their support so that the activations are reset, we did so .. yet are still awaiting reaction.
When contacting Ubisoft marketing here in the Netherlands, their reply goes like this: 'Sorry to disappoint you - the game is indeed restricted to 3 hardware changes and there simply is no way to bypass that. We also do not have 7 copies of the game for you'.
Ubisoft has been having bad press regarding their DRM schemes ever since they implemented any, and it doesn't look like this is going to change anytime soon. I truly wonder how it's possible with so many publishers and so many games out there, that a publisher like Ubisoft continues making mistakes like these. Don't they learn? It's not as if all the other game companies get this amount of bad press regarding their anti-piracy technology.
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BogeyMan
Its like a self fulfilling prophesy, they say pirates copy our game so they make a terrible DRM and people (who would buy the game or own the retail copy) get the pirate copy so they can play the game properly.