{"id":9203,"date":"2011-01-03T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T08:21:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"ubisoft-relaxes-drm-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/9203-ubisoft-relaxes-drm-policies","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft relaxes DRM policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/2010\/12\/31\/constant-net-connection-no-longer-required-for-ubisoft-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"PC Gamer\">PC Gamer<\/a>, Ubisoft has relaxed its controversial always-on DRM policies for some games. Games such as Assassin&rsquo;s Creed 2, Splinter: Cell Conviction, and Settlers 7 previously required a constant internet connection during play, with any interruption pausing the game until it was resolved.<\/p>\n<p>This was obviously extremely irritating for anyone with unreliable internet connectivity (basically, everybody in South Africa).<\/p>\n<p>This has now been changed, with the DRM looking for an active internet connection at game launch only.<\/p>\n<p>Ubisoft dropped the DRM system altogether for the recent release of RUSE, trading it for Steamworks&rsquo; own management policies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/10279-Ubisoft-tones-down-their-DRM-policy\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Ubisoft relaxes DRM policies\"><strong>Ubisoft relaxes DRM policies<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp; &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constant internet connection no longer required<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9203","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}