Ubisoft confirms Driver: San Francisco and From Dust require a permanent internet connection.

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You are kidding me. Doing this kind of thing just encourages piracy.

It's kind of funny though, I wonder if they do this intentionally. They release ever more pain-in-the-behind DRM measures so that more people buy the game and then download the cracked version so they don't have to deal with the DRM. Then Ubisoft turns around and says 'Hey, we have all these people pirating our game! Each download is a lost sale! Something has to be done about this travesty!'.

/conspiracyoff

I thought Ubi Stopped on this?

And I confirm it will be pirated at most in a week after release.

Seriously, I don't see what the problem is. Every game on Steam requires you to be online (unless you use offline mode, but comeon, like 1 out of hundreds of people use that, there isnt really any point in using it).

I hope not to start a flame war but they just gave me an excuse to pirate it

Welp, buying From Dust on the PS3 it is

seems too good to let it pass over drm. still buying it. =D

It wasnt a good idea...

Moral of the story. Ubisoft is a wretched company and you should not buy anything from them.

what a fail

Disappointing. A lot.

I stopped buying Ubisoft games aaaggesss ago. Not only is most of their games crap, but this DRM stuff just makes things worse. Just another money grubbing "Successful" company.

Concerning some rage in this thread, it only matters if you can't sustain that permanent connection otherwise if you can, your experiencing one of the best games in mankind(and that's saying something lol :P) to all the haters don't pirate your not going to get a game worthy of its expectations and a game needs to be bought to fully experience that worth. In other words buying the game is definetly worth the price( for example assassins creed 2(HAD PERMANENT CONNECTION{i think}) so stop bloody hating the connection crap and man up. GOSH

Although since writing this post I've realized perhaps most of you guys who would rage out on here would point that it's unfair,etc. etc. and frankly I don't care (these are just my opinions lol) give at least PROPS to the Dev's making these awesome games and not HATE on them( And if all you guys do is just whine THEN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT; be mature* about it and go on a strike or something lol). Just because of 1 small thing (yes i consider this problem small :P) doesn't mean you should hate the game. If you guys are just RAGING(LOL RAGE!(see pun?)) then get a decent permanent connection.

and that's my opinion :P.

Read this then Lol http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/07/28/ubisoft-our-drm-is-a-success/

Yep, not buying the game anymore.

Good news guys. While Driver still has the online DRM, From Dust does not!

Silly AAA publishers thinking I want their game so much that I'd stand them wanking off into my face.

A while back I saw a theory on why Valve is better than most other game developers (Ubisoft). Source