Assassin's Creed Shadows Will Feature Denuvo & Account Linking
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The game's EULA also requires you to allow Ubisoft to "monitor" your RAM.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/23002452

muculent
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So Ubisoft just sells malware now without the game wrapper. Great.

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No, gamer you see, it’s really important that you grind these randomly generated kill quests to progress, it’s totally not to incentivize you to purchase the exp boost in our cash shop in this single player game, can’t have you using cheat engine to ruin your experience.

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They sell stuff for these games ? scum

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And just like that, I couldn’t be less interested in this game.

HeyListenWatchOut
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Already lost interest in Assassin’s Creed after they abandoned the Desmond timeline…

Played a tiny bit of the Black Flag one for the fun shanty stuff but that’s been it for me now for probably a decade… so all this has done has lowered my already completely evaporated interest of “apathy” down now to “actively avoid as if it were a virus.”

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The original AC games were really great for their time, and to be honest I enjoyed the ones that came after the trilogy despite feeling like the same game with a new coat of paint over and over.

But they really knocked it out of the park when they overhauled all the controls and mechanics with Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla. Yes, there are issues with them like with every open world game, but it is really worth checking out. Valhalla is obviously beautiful and very refined but I favor Odyssey for the sheer fun factor.

Agreed on these new ones, though.

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Will how unfinished and buggy these games are all coming out, I’ll pick them up on sales after they have been finished and their spyware removed.

I forget the last title Ubisoft worked on that I was actually eager to play.

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Who’s playing this shit? Ubi games are all the same.

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That’s okay, I was done buying Assassins Creed games anyway.

NONE
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Can’t they just… Make a “normal game”? One that you install, play and that’s it?. Why the fuck do they need to monitor Ram? What the hell?

Data mining, baby! It’s worth more than gold.

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Anti cheat (it’s actually anti piracy which is not possible also they oops sell massive data dumps for cash oops)

Victor
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Honestly also curious why this is necessary.

Victor
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Ah, it’s in the article.

To top it all off, Shadows’ EULA also includes a provision that allows the game to monitor your PC’s RAM to ensure you’re not running any unauthorized programs like macros, cheats, or hacks, a well-intentioned clause that nonetheless feels a touch out of place in a single-player game and could potentially scare off some of the more suspicious players who aren’t comfortable with their hardware being monitored.

WTF do they care if you’re modding your own single player game that you paid for? They sound like assholes!

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…th…they are.

Ubisoft is usually exhibit A when it comes to asshole-ry.

Victor
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Is there maybe an online multiplayer component to the game which might otherwise experience cheating? I dunno. 🤷‍♂️

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They sell level boosters that you could otherwise circumvent with Cheat Engine.

Victor
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Oh ffs 🤦‍♂️ If I bought the game and want to cheat myself out of the experience, just let me do so…!

If I’m understanding you correctly, level boosters are things you can activate to… skip levels? Reach character levels quicker?

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Yeah they let you skip the artificially inflated grind in your single player experience.

Buying them is not cheating yourself out of the experience, but instead it brings back the intended speed of progression.

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Correct. They make games that are dozens of hours long and filled with repetitive content, and if you skip the content you don’t want to do, you tend to be under leveled for the stuff you do want to do, and they’ll sell you boosters to hit that level instead.

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Micro transactions

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unauthorized programs

No one gets to authorize programs to run on my PC but me.

Victor
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It’s honestly very odd that it needs to do this for a single-player game.

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Search for ubisoft in steams store page, click the gear on the right hand side, click ignore to take out the trash.

There had always been more then one lifetimes worth of stuff to do. Be picky

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You know it’s bad when you don’t want to even pirate the game.

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So the story has ended in origins then

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it ended in 3, they’ve been treading water ever since.

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My interest died with Desmond.

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yeah… for me I was willing to give black flag a chance to see if they would find a way to make a new series, maybe with a new current day plot, but nah. people seem to dislike the current day portion of those games but to me that was the main interest, along with the mythology…

black flag’s current day portion was so goddamn awful, they turned abstergo into a parody of ubisoft? I don’t even know what they were thinking… but it was so immersion breaking. completely killed my interest.

pirate stuff was fun, and it still had a nice plot twist near the beginning… but it was clear that the overall story was going nowhere so I just quit playing after that and decided that the series ended with 3.

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Writing by committee doesn’t tend to produce anything worthwhile.

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This game is already hard to want. Why make it hard to play too?

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Hahaa… Keep it.

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hard pass

irotsoma
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Why TF does it matter so much if you cheat in a single player game that they have to take such drastic measures to prevent it? In multiplayer, competitive games, I sort of get it, depending on context, but single player games, no way. I mod single player games all the time. It’s one of the main reasons I like PC gaming over console. I’d never buy a game that went this far to prevent something that has no effect on them or anyone else.

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is this not about pirating if it’s a single player game?

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And micro transactions

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Lots of game developers started off as hobbyist modders when they were young. Maybe they’re trying to eliminate the future competition. More likely, Denuvo’s actual primary purpose is DRM and anti-cheat is just how it’s sold to players.

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Something I often find myself explaining to my friends who I game with is just how much objectively terrible shit you can get gamers to not only tolerate, but support as long as you promise to “get rid of cheaters”… which is a hopeless goal. It took a lot of explaining to get them to accept my argument of “I would literally prefer cheaters over a new root kit for every game”

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Can’t have you getting those cosmetics without paying for them!

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Man, and I was still looking a bit forward to this game. Why can’t you just be normal, Ubisoft?

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