

I love the Anno games and I really want to buy it. They have to cover their own butts so they put in DRM, knowing it won't really do anything. You can tell Ubisoft's management is all businessmen who don't understand gaming. I understand that piracy is a problem (although how big it really is I think is up for debate) but to hurt your paying customers in an attempt to defeat it, especially when piracy still happens ANYWAY, well that is a stupid business practice. Still, I can not support Ubisoft with their horribly restrictive DRM. At least they are taking a step back from always on Internet DRM in single player games.

It is really sad that Ubisoft continues with this kind of BS.

I'll pirate it without a hint of guilt, I have to.ĮDIT: basically, if you go from service package 1 to service package 2, with steam installed, it thinks you are putting it on a new machine, which screws up the DRM if I read it Right. If I can only install it 3 times with steam. What i am worried about is Steam thinking I have multiple machines during a simple reformat (which I'm about to do again) and cancelling my game. Eventually I just update win7 first, THEN installed applications such as steam. Literally, it would make me validate my account 4-5 times during updating the win7 os. I had to go to email, then enter a code because steam saw my computer as a new machine. My brother just bought win7 recently and they seemed to have put all the updates on his DVD, so when he reformats, he only had to update/restart a couple times, but for me it's a few hours process.Įach time I did these updates and when I already had steam installed, steam would lock up saying they don't recognize my account. What I'm talking about is that, I did buy win7 ultimate when it first came out and When I reformat, since my DVD is out of date, it takes quite a few "Windows Updates, downloads, and restarts" before I'm really up to date.
