Rumors: Steam - separately, Ubisoft games with a new DRM - separately?
A good scandal brewed because of a brief message on Steam "Sorry! This item is currently unavailable in your region. This message (“Sorry, request processing error: product unavailable in your region”) was issued by Steam to residents of the UK trying to download Ubisoft's new games - Assassin's Creed 2 and Silent Hunter 5. And all this against the backdrop of passion for jubisoft fashionable copy protection system .
All the gusto is that Ubisoft PR people, who were honored to concoct a statement in the style of “everything is in order, we are still in white,” were ahead of journalists who were not out of their imagination. Having dug up or even invented Valve's insider, creatives with computerandvideogames have announced that Valve Software has refused to sell new Ubisoft projects protected by innovative DRM through Steam. And they finished off the public with a dance, citing the words of a certain Valve representative who said that the studio “does not want to spoil its reputation in the eyes of customers and post games that irritate them.”
Substitute it or not, and whether the computerandvideogames actually had a mythical insider, but there is no smoke without fire. Ubisoft with its innovative DRM over the past month has managed to “grab” both from players and from well-known people in the industry. Yeah, it is from Newell from Valve, which is also firewood for the fire of this little scandal.
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Despite the fact that Ubisoft assures users in every way that their games are sold without any problems on Steam in all regions except the UK ( yes, sold, checked ), and problems in the UK are not related to DRM, the idea to slam the virtual Steam door in front of I am impressed by the poor implementation of the protection. And it is a pity if all this is only a duck.
PS Portal 2 , Steam on Mac , and now this sweet hype with the participation of Ubisoft - Valve is rapidly gaining additional points of karma.
All the gusto is that Ubisoft PR people, who were honored to concoct a statement in the style of “everything is in order, we are still in white,” were ahead of journalists who were not out of their imagination. Having dug up or even invented Valve's insider, creatives with computerandvideogames have announced that Valve Software has refused to sell new Ubisoft projects protected by innovative DRM through Steam. And they finished off the public with a dance, citing the words of a certain Valve representative who said that the studio “does not want to spoil its reputation in the eyes of customers and post games that irritate them.”
Substitute it or not, and whether the computerandvideogames actually had a mythical insider, but there is no smoke without fire. Ubisoft with its innovative DRM over the past month has managed to “grab” both from players and from well-known people in the industry. Yeah, it is from Newell from Valve, which is also firewood for the fire of this little scandal.
')
Despite the fact that Ubisoft assures users in every way that their games are sold without any problems on Steam in all regions except the UK ( yes, sold, checked ), and problems in the UK are not related to DRM, the idea to slam the virtual Steam door in front of I am impressed by the poor implementation of the protection. And it is a pity if all this is only a duck.
PS Portal 2 , Steam on Mac , and now this sweet hype with the participation of Ubisoft - Valve is rapidly gaining additional points of karma.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/88258/
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