{"id":13210,"date":"2011-07-29T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T07:55:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"ubisoft-declares-its-drm-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13210-ubisoft-declares-its-drm-a-success","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft declares its DRM a \u201csuccess\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&rsquo;s most astounding edition of Reality Denial Gone Wild, Ubisoft has declared its always-on DRM policies a &ldquo;success&rdquo;. Which is really funny because everybody else would say it&rsquo;s unnecessarily restrictive, ultimately pointless, and a huge, stabbing pain in the bumholes of legitimate buyers &ndash; seemingly defeating the purpose entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Not so, says Ubisoft, who tell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/2011\/07\/28\/ubisoft-our-drm-is-a-success\/\" target=\"_blank\">PC Gamer<\/a> that the publisher has seen &ldquo;a clear reduction in piracy of our titles which required a persistent online connection, and from that point of view the requirement is a success.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe that&rsquo;s just a clear reduction in people playing those games at all.<\/p>\n<p>The company recently confirmed that Driver: San Francisco would include the controversial DRM scheme, which requires that players are connected to the internet while running the game.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, pretty much everybody expects that the DRM will be cracked within a day or two of the game&rsquo;s launch on 2 September.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/16096-Ubisoft-touts-it-s-DRM-a-quot-success-quot?p=484624#post484624\" target=\"_self\">Discuss DRM&#8217;s always-on-internet DRM<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lolwut<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}