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Please be careful about letting little slights against people slip in. The use of the word "kid" if referring to one who is not a kid, is still demeaning. My unsolicited advice is to un-ignore the user since both of you politely agreed not to continue the argument. Getting a better impression of the other may help heal whatever personal rifts are felt.

As for Ubi .. they make some great games, no doubt, but they are also a bit deceptive (play tricks on wording at the expense of their users). They promised no online-only DRM, which may be technically true, but some of their games are crippled (HoMM6 or MMH6, depending which title you use, lol, depriving even offline legit users from awesome 'Dynasty' weapons and traits which reshapes your strategy and disallow playing your online save offline) while others just flat out deprive even legit plays of collectibles and rewards (AC4).

However, it's a business and its priority is to make cash, which it needs to survive. I don't mind their anti-piracy schemes ... I expect some losses when pirating a game as opposed to buying it, but I do NOT expect those who buy it to also suffer because of it. Me, personally, I won't play anything online ever. My philosophy is principally opposed to it (if not security, then definitely privacy). Ubi's methodology has done nothing more to me as an individual but remove any incentives to actually buy their games. They aren't "evil" and have quite a bit of talent. However, they also aren't a company I want to reward because of their treatment of patrons, especially those on PC.

Well what can I say, most of the organisations think so. But I think ubisoft is (in my opinion) not so bad like other organisations. I mean look Activison or EA. I REALLY would have bought Battlefield 4 for pc, but I DIDN'T cause ***** origin. You know what i mean? Or Activison, making all the time the same ***** thing, and thinking: "this time it's gonna be different." No man No, it's always nearly the same game. It's not Call of Duty 10 it's Call of Duty 8,5. And the sad think is people buy this game and support the developers. I do not want to understand this.

Ubisoft always bring a good story and (for a certain time) a good multiplayer. ( Far Cry, Splinter Cell, Assassin's Creed, Watch_Dogs <3 )

Oh, please don't think I was implying that people shouldn't buy Ubi games. For those who want online play it would be quite worthwhile. I was just saying they removed any motivation for offline players to purchase instead of pirate with their DRM scheme. A pirate can get more content offline than legit users can. Their games are worth the cash ... it's their behavior that crossed a line in my personal preferences.

EA, heh, haven't heard that name in a while. I must not be into anything they put out these days. As for DRM practices, my hero is CD Projekt RED (mostly known for The Witcher), who decided not to use any DRM. My villain is Blizzard, who stores so much of Diablo3 on its servers that the game is pretty much an online game only, whether single player or not. First they killed Warcraft with WoW, then they kill Diablo, those bastards!

Maxis did the same with the latest Simcity but, unlike Blizzard with Diablo3, they decided to patch it for offline (better late than never).

Maxis did the same with the latest Simcity but, unlike Blizzard with Diablo3, they decided to patch it for offline (better late than never).

Diablo 3 is quite a good game (not the same class as its predecessors, but good), but the online necessitation from Blizzard is a pain. I sometimes have the feeling they have more of my game content stored on their servers than I have on my hdd. And I don't think that they will loosen their DRM politics even just a bit, no, they will keep pushing forward with every game they release in the future, I'm quite sure about that.

Simcity offline patch is still in beta testing and we are at march the 1st.

Some Ea members have justified this saying the game was entirely programmed without offline mode in mind, so now it became a pain in the ass for maxis programmers to adapt the code and had to entirely rewrite entire parts of the game engine.

sorry I read the previous posts with arguments about simcity and I confused the topic. the simcity topic is this one (viewtopic.php?f=14&t=62742&hilit=simcity)

Still no patches out for Ac Liberation hd?

So uh...do we have a save converter for this game yet? I'd like to transfer my save file for a friend but my game is Uplay and his is 3DM so a simple copy-paste doesn't work :/