1UP - One of your three installations of Anno 2070 is chewed up anytime your video card is replaced.
Insider Gaming - "Ubisoft has cancelled yet another game, this time ending development on the Animal Crossing-inspired title Alterra."
HALIFAX (April 14, 2026) – Laid-off Ubisoft workers in Halifax have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a settlement with the video-game giant. The terms of the settlement, including the compensation employees will receive, is confidential.
I can't sit here and act like I know these workers financial situations. And I'm sure nobody wakes up WANTING to go to court. But for the sake of the industry, I wish some of these types of cases made it to trial.
Settlements allow companies to continue to do whatever abusive practices they do. While the trials (should the company lose) would actually force real changes for the better.
But again, I'm not in these workers shoes and I can understand them not wanting to risk it.
Two-day event includes exclusive reveals, trailers and playable games on show floor.
Yes, if I'm changing my graphics card, I lose an activation? Oh wait this card was faulty I lost an activation? Oh I've changed my mind I want this other graphics card. Oh look! No activations left and I'm £40 down I love not owning my games anymore. Who ever decided upon this drm deserves to go to hell.
Q. Has Ubisoft's DRM Gone Too Far?
A. Yes
Pirates just get cracked versions of games without the DRM. The only people who can't play a game with DRM are people who legally purchase games.
When a DRM negatively impacts the experience for legitimate customers, then yes.
Having to be always connected to the internet in Single Player modes is a big negative for me (No more playing games on my laptop while travelling. Losing progress in the game because my connection bugs out for a moment. Login servers sometimes being down which happened a lot for Anno 1404)
I can just about live with the activation limit, and even losing an activation if I change hardware because in reality I don't change hardware that often, and I only install games on the two machines I own... BUT, there must be a quick and easy method of claiming back those activations otherwise the DRM is a just a huge hassle.
I will definitely be thinking twice about buying PC games from UbiSoft in future. And as I said in another DRM post... the only people getting a good experience are those who pirate the game, and as broadband speeds increase UbiSoft should watch out for more people bypassing their draconian DRM by pirating.
Who's the genius who thought about having a constant internet connection?I would like to talk to him or her.
Ubisoft? Who's Ubisoft?
I've reached a point where I just don't give a damn about Ubisoft games. They've dropped completely off my radar so to speak. It's okay though. Not enough time and money for me to play every darn game worth playing out there, so somebody has to go and Ubisoft made it easy by sawing off the branch they're sitting on.