No to Ubisoft DRM
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Dear Ubisoft Entertainment,
This petition has been created in response to the recent announcement of your DRM system, which will be used for all future PC games published by your studios.
Whilst the creation of this DRM is understandable, the methods by which it will counter piracy will only alienate those ready, willing and able to purchase your games through legal means. By using the planned version of DRM, people will likely not by games they want to, or simply pirate them instead. The latter not only harms Ubisoft, but PC gaming as a whole; something we don't wish to see.
Therefore, we ask:
1) That you seriously revise how the DRM works; in singe-player games (such as the soon to be released Assassin's Creed 2) an internet connection should not be constantly required.
2) You look at other DRM functions of the past (by yourself and other companies) and see how easily they are broken by pirates, whilst legal gamers must suffer through servers going down, logins not working correctly, etc.
3) That you listen to the public response, and do not make the same mistake made by recent studios by ignoring your fan-base.
Piracy is the cause of this problem, but it is only increased by adding unforgiving and impractical services which will only affect those who buy the game. Those unwilling to accept the DRM measures are more likely to then turn to piracy.
Many forms of DRM have been tried, and none last more than a couple of days before they are cracked and the games present on a torrent site.
Your games are the favourites of many PC gamers, and it would be a shame to see such a thriving fan-base feeling as if they have been treated unfairly.
This petition has been created in response to the recent announcement of your DRM system, which will be used for all future PC games published by your studios.
Whilst the creation of this DRM is understandable, the methods by which it will counter piracy will only alienate those ready, willing and able to purchase your games through legal means. By using the planned version of DRM, people will likely not by games they want to, or simply pirate them instead. The latter not only harms Ubisoft, but PC gaming as a whole; something we don't wish to see.
Therefore, we ask:
1) That you seriously revise how the DRM works; in singe-player games (such as the soon to be released Assassin's Creed 2) an internet connection should not be constantly required.
2) You look at other DRM functions of the past (by yourself and other companies) and see how easily they are broken by pirates, whilst legal gamers must suffer through servers going down, logins not working correctly, etc.
3) That you listen to the public response, and do not make the same mistake made by recent studios by ignoring your fan-base.
Piracy is the cause of this problem, but it is only increased by adding unforgiving and impractical services which will only affect those who buy the game. Those unwilling to accept the DRM measures are more likely to then turn to piracy.
Many forms of DRM have been tried, and none last more than a couple of days before they are cracked and the games present on a torrent site.
Your games are the favourites of many PC gamers, and it would be a shame to see such a thriving fan-base feeling as if they have been treated unfairly.
14700 Signatures
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Ethan Woods
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- DRM never works!
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David Evans
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- counter productive DRM is counter productive... do you WANT your games to be cracked?
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Piers Andrews
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- Long fan of Ubisoft games both on consoles and PC, would not like to see them make this move to a DRM scheme which I disagree with on all levels.
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Kinichie
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Joe Pay
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- Don't make those who buy these games legally suffer!
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Josh Arner
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Lorenz Kindt
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- I agree wholeheartedly with this petition. Forcing this kind of wildly unpractial leash on paying customers will do a lot more harm than good, both short- and long term. Please, Ubisoft, revise this plan; if you must introduce new DRM, kindly choose an alternative to this mess.
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Laurens H
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dryg
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- Seriously FUbisoft, are you retarded?!
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Philip Adgey
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Fabian M. O'Neill
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- I shall refrain from buying this game until Ubisoft removes this invasive and unnecessary system.
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Iacomi Theodor
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Paul Broughton
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M Daniels
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- If Ubisoft spent this effort improving their games instead of making them worse to spite paying customers then they might sell more games to me.
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Chris Bartlam
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- treating your fans like criminals is not the way to sell your product
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Thomas Miles
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- I shall not be purchasing future products with this DRM system
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Glade
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- Why do people keep on bringing out horrible DRM. If people actually want to pirate a game DRM is not going to stop them lets be honest about it no amount of DRM will stop pirates it just affects customers. You just have to look at Securom for that.
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Ben White
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April Marie Gilbert
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Trivun Luzaic
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- Ubisoft are just screwing PC gamers over completely. How long before people just give up on PC gaming completely?
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PandyBear
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- The more DRM u apply, The more its pirated. Simple.
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Alex Robey
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Duncan
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- Don't screw pc gamers!
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a smith
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Diederik van Veen
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- Idiotic.
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Teemu Korhonen
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Eric
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Dennis Mariman
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- DRM measures that hurt paying customers are never a smart move, especially since the people these measures are aimed at (pirates) never have to deal with them. They'll just download a crack.
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Oliver Ingamells
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Henry O'Rourke
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Horia Suto
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- Seriously, Ubisoft? Do you really think this is going to stop piracy? Really? If so, then I suggest you revise your decision and look back on past DRM attempts.
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Duncan Campbell
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- DRM only temporarily slows pirates, deters buyers, and INCREASES piracy. You're heading into a downward cycle that WILLkill the PC gaming market for you.
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Lewis
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Jordan Stefancic
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Mark Sellick
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Steven Wright
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Kristine Masterson
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- An internet connection should not be required for singleplayer games.
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James Clarke
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Russell Floyd
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- I personally will not buy any games from Ubisoft until they firstly remove this DRM system from all of their future releases and secondly patch all of their released games to remove it.
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Seth Aronsohn
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Dominic White
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Alexander
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- imo Ubi gone mad
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Jack Lanigan
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Philip Roche
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- I think it's a silly idea.
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Alpharius
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Joe
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June
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Oskar Thomas
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Linus Riel Petersen
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Alex Hankiewicz
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