Bad News Ubisoft now owns South Park The Stick of Truth!

GREAT! That's just what we need! Ubisoft's Uplay "always online" nonsense messing up South Park...

I really hope they make an episode lamenting the loss of the truly great publisher THQ, and lampooning the European equivalent of Electronic Arts, Ubisoft.

If Electronic Arts if the Devil of video games, surely Ubisoft is the Antichrist.
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Zetgob posted...

From: kiaghi7 | #005

GREAT! That's just what we need! Ubisoft's Uplay "always online" nonsense messing up South Park...

Uh, you know they stopped doing that and even released patches to remove it from AC? The most an internet connection is needed now is a one time activation, like Steam does, and then you can play it offline as much as you want.

I'd say Ubisoft is one of the better options for getting SP, it's far better than everything just being scrapped. They've not had the greatest history in the PC world but they seem to be trying to get better.

I guess I agree that getting something done is better than scrapping the project, but having to kowtow to Ubisoft's insipid business practices at all is problematic... But "getting better", from hardly being a notch above Electronic Arts, isn't exactly a tremendous improvement.

Their patching out their unblinking eye is little comfort quite frankly, it shouldn't have even been there in the first place. It was a de-facto accusation of every legitimate buyer of the game, that Ubisoft thinks they are a pirate and needs to monitor them continuously because of their conclusion... Meanwhile every single pirate of the game never once had to deal with Ubisoft's nonsense monitoring to begin with...

It'd be funny if it weren't true, pirates typically have less anti-piracy nonsense to deal with than legitimate buyers... Can we just go back to CD keys, and "code wheels"?

A single synch isn't even all that great an improvement, it's still having to live under the automatic assumption of wrong-doing for legitimate buyers. Not to mention the damper it puts on your own ability to loan any of your games to a friend, like a book, or a movie, or music, or practically any other form of entertainment, because the developers consider that piracy? REALLY?

Real pirates aren't synching their games in the first place, they specifically circumvent the anti-piracy measures, so who are the "anti-piracy" measures actually stopping? The legitimate buyers, who can't readily resell or trade, or even just loan their game(s) to others.
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NewMoonShadow posted...

Ubisoft is actually one of my favorite Publishers out there. They're one of the few who's willing to take frequent risks on new IP's and find the diamonds in the rough, and their games are always smoothed out and finished across all platforms, unlike other Publishers.

... If you buy their games on consoles anyway. F*** their PC DRM.

Indeed, sadly sub-par publishing and abysmal development, across numerous platforms (but ESPECIALLY with PC games) is sadly becoming the norm now that they know they can cut the development time cycle down some and just "patch" it up to production code later!

Better yet, while they are patching their unfinished game they've gotten you to pay them to beta-test, they will sell you some nifty DLC content they were busy cutting out of the game code to sell back to you separately and pretend like they've come up with something new in the meanwhile... I'm looking at you SEGA...
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"Ubisoft as a publisher isn't any worse than any other publisher"

Compared to Electronic Art, certainly they are not worse, but compared to THQ (before their bankruptcy), Valve (via STEAM), even Activision-Blizzard, they are indeed worse... Intrusive and overbearing DRM schemes are very large concerns with Ubisoft's infamous past and Uplay is merely an alternate form of their intrusiveness.

" I remember a year or so ago when my modem died on me and I had to wait to get that replaced, I couldn't get into Steam because I didn't know to set up my account for offline since who can predict an your internet dying on you."

Interesting example, given that you can use STEAM in offline mode... I use it routinely, I think you were trying your very best to make a point but forgot to use facts or the truth to support your argument. If you could not figure out how to do it, that is unfortunate, but it in no way compensates for Ubisoft's infamous history with DRM.


If you like Ubisoft's approach, more power to you, but the rest of the world isn't particularly swayed because you are more easily cowed to their whims.
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Well, I doubt the game has been canceled... If it wasn't far along in development that'd be one thing, but the game was actually nearly finished when THQ went sideways...

By this point, approximately the originally projected release window, I'd think it's that they are working on final details and of course the legal wrangling that's almost assuredly the biggest hurtle since of course the transition from THQ to Ubisuck was hardly "smooth".
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