Barely a week after Ubisoft mentioned that DRM is ‘vital to their business‘, we have proof that people were listening. The people, unfortunately, were hackers.
Ubisoft’s notorious “Online Services Network” requires gamers be always online in order to play games like Assassin’s Creed 2. This obviously has led to much frustration as flaws and errors make legitimate customers wish they’d pirated the game – and turn some into doing it. A new hack has now been unleashed to the internet – and it reportedly removes the DRM entirely.
The hack is credited to a group named Skid Row, who warned other hacking groups that their exploited files have been ‘reverse-safegaurded’ so that others won’t be able to steal their work. Users download a modified game executable that is able to bypass the strenuous Digital Rights Management steps that most have to go through.
Skid Row also left a little note in the readme for Ubisoft themselves:
“Thank you Ubisoft, this was quiete [sic] a challenge for us, but nothing stops the leading force from doing what we do. Next time focus on the game and not on the DRM. It was probably horrible for all legit users. We just make their lifes [sic] easier.”
Hackers: 1, DRM: Negative 5.
It’ll be interesting to see how Ubisoft responds to someone fully breaking their DRM, which has been in the media spotlight for some time now – and, once again, not for good reasons.
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He went and digital rights management. They shoot specifically the continued use of emulator server, I am not quite sure where you got the idea that there is a need to 3rd party server, because sure as hell is not in the NFO.
what? Speak english.
These guys are my heroes.
I'm perfectly happy with my 360 copy of the game though.
I understand the game companies trying to keep people from pirating their software. But, DRM in every form it has taken to date has done nothing but hurt the average consumer. While the games just get pirated anyways. Thus DRM is a bad idea.
I wonder exactly how effective it is. I've seen similar hacks before (for other games) that break certain aspects of the game (usually by design from the game development team, like in Arkham Asylum where it didn't allow you to glide in any hacked version of the game). Has anyone played the game through entirely with the hack without problems?
Not that I want to be a buzzkill or anything, I'm just as annoyed with the Ubisoft DRM, I'm just saying, I hope it's not the lesser of two evils.
Finally someone took ubi off their throne