19th February 2010, 1:54 PM
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/art...0&site=pcg
Advantages to this form? Unlimited installs, and server backup of saved games. Disadvantages? Constant everlasting online access through the duration of a single player game, the slightest hiccup resulting in beign kicked out of the game to the menu, damn your progress.
Now, while I'm all for server backups of saved data as a matter of advancement, it should be in addition to a local save, not replacing it, with it synchronizing when it can get online, and not otherwise.
It won't be long before pirates circumvent this anyway, and THAT'S the one everyone is going to download, so seriously this as a pirating measure won't accomplish anything. Never mind that Ubisoft will, inexorably, be abandoning this fairly quickly. There's just too little usability for the average user. Forget playing this game on the go on your laptop. Forget normal network instability that occasionally disconnects someone.
Valve's upcoming "digital tagging" of games with unique IDs letting them instantly find the guilty uploader is probably the best possible method, and I'm still awaiting their release of it.
Advantages to this form? Unlimited installs, and server backup of saved games. Disadvantages? Constant everlasting online access through the duration of a single player game, the slightest hiccup resulting in beign kicked out of the game to the menu, damn your progress.
Now, while I'm all for server backups of saved data as a matter of advancement, it should be in addition to a local save, not replacing it, with it synchronizing when it can get online, and not otherwise.
It won't be long before pirates circumvent this anyway, and THAT'S the one everyone is going to download, so seriously this as a pirating measure won't accomplish anything. Never mind that Ubisoft will, inexorably, be abandoning this fairly quickly. There's just too little usability for the average user. Forget playing this game on the go on your laptop. Forget normal network instability that occasionally disconnects someone.
Valve's upcoming "digital tagging" of games with unique IDs letting them instantly find the guilty uploader is probably the best possible method, and I'm still awaiting their release of it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)