Congrats EA point for you Ubi

[EKS]

I have no problems with developers that want to protect their game, i assume everyone is aware that any protection will be broken but making it a bit harder im fine with.

But i think you need to adapt the protection to the game, for me settlers is a chill game. That i want to be able to play when im out traveling or something simular so require constant internet is a problem.

That being said the game has also been changed from the old settlers to a new game, im not sure yet if this is a good thing. Because you fun DRM is very broken and i cannot start the game.

Hopefully this will be fixed, but at the end of the day buying your game this time turned a long time loyal player to a skeptic ( Mostly due to the DRM making me unable to play, and the fact that the game preformance is horrible).

[DarkDeserter]

The protection has already been broken. The fact is, you can't expect to have a constant internet connection all the time. Specially if you have a life that requires to you to travel a lot. We spend 50-60$ on a game that we can only play if we meet set conditions, it's like we're just renting the game instead of owning it now.

[bigmac1281]

I personally don't really like the DRM stuff either, but all this stuff about renting the game is kind of rediculous.

You get what you pay for. In this case, you got a game with DRM. If you didn't want a game with DRM, you shouldn't have bought this particular game.

I'm sorry, but people who complain about video games with the arguement "This isn't what I paid for!", are wrong. You paid for whatever the developer made. If you don't like what the developer made, you shouldn't buy it. Period.

Caveat emptor, and all that good stuff.

It's akin to someone buying a car, and then complaining that they have to get insurance and registration.

[lordbloodrain]

I personally don't really like the DRM stuff either, but all this stuff about renting the game is kind of rediculous.

You get what you pay for. In this case, you got a game with DRM. If you didn't want a game with DRM, you shouldn't have bought this particular game.

I'm sorry, but people who complain about video games with the arguement "This isn't what I paid for!", are wrong. You paid for whatever the developer made. If you don't like what the developer made, you shouldn't buy it. Period.

Caveat emptor, and all that good stuff.

It's akin to someone buying a car, and then complaining that they have to get insurance and registration.

I dont agree. Most customers did probably not know about the DRM before they bought the game. The customers who bought the game during the first days/weeks after the release, simply bought it because their big fans of the Settlers series. They did not know what kind of stupid DRM Ubisoft uses for their Games, but they probably wont make the same mistake twice and therefore the settlers was probably their last Ubisoft game. If enough people show Ubisoft how angry they are, Ubisoft will probably remove its DRM and not use it in the future.

[pete316]

Its still a case of the customer getting screwed everytime they cook up some new form of "protection" which gets cracked/broken in next to no time

Personally I like buying games through steam as matter of convenience but cannot purchase S7 due to region and its proberbly a good thing

I quite enjoy settler games for those moments when the net goes down, or for whatever reason theres no net access available, so what happens in this situation if a constant connection is required

As much as I sympathize developers wanting to protect their content ( my way of supporting the developer is buying the product ) I think this is a load of rubbish

DRM can be a bit of a pain if you have some misfortune with the computer but its perfectly tollerable, the constant net things a slap in the face... and they clearly do not have a clue about the people playing the game, if people want online rts and little else theres better titles available thats not why alot play settlers

[gameoverbf2]

I was fully aware of the need to be online to play, which doesn't bother me, however had i known that 2 weeks after buying the game i still wouldn't be playing because there authentication servers are permanently broken, i would not have bought it.

and finally after almost 2 weeks they acknowedge that there's issues. Gee aint that great.

[Dethstar]

I personally don't really like the DRM stuff either, but all this stuff about renting the game is kind of rediculous.

You get what you pay for. In this case, you got a game with DRM. If you didn't want a game with DRM, you shouldn't have bought this particular game.

I'm sorry, but people who complain about video games with the arguement "This isn't what I paid for!", are wrong. You paid for whatever the developer made. If you don't like what the developer made, you shouldn't buy it. Period.

Caveat emptor, and all that good stuff.

It's akin to someone buying a car, and then complaining that they have to get insurance and registration.


I totally agree with you. If someone bought this even in light of all the controversy and publicity about the DRM and then found they didnt like it then there is really no helping them. The state of the game was reported on and mainly condemed onwebsites, national and international gaming magazines as well as in forums like this one. Pretty much everywhere. Of course companies like Ubisoft will make a game like this to try out the concept if people are apathetic enough to buy it.

Crying about it afterwards is faintly ridiculous as you already sold out.