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The latest company to start using online-DRM in Ubisoft and people aren’t exactly sure if it’s for the better or the worse. As many PC gamers would know by now, a vast majority of the games that comes out of PC would have DRM of some sorts and many of them are particularly intrusive.

Intrusive DRM aren’t exactly favoured by many PC gamers, and with the introduction of online-enabled DRMs, it may look like the world of PC gaming is heading towards a better future.

…Or not?

Responding the hate of intrusive DRM is Ubisoft, who had recently announced their new DRM plans in the future. Ditching the old methods of using 3rd party programs, Ubisoft will introduce an online-enabled DRM which means users would have to be online to activate their copy of the game. Yes, that means regardless if you’re playing single player or not, you’ll need to be connect to the net to launch the game.

On the other hand, a user could install as many copies of the game as they want to any amount of computer, provided that they login to the same Ubisoft account. Like many Steam games which bounds a CD-KEY of the game to a particular account, the user must be connect-able to the Ubisoft authentication server to launch the game. No internet at your area? You’re out of luck then.

Online DRM isn’t really that bad though, since it pretty well removes the whole idea of limiting the amount of copies a user could install (one of the methods of DRMs) and does not install weird 3rd party programs into the user’s computer. However when you have too many online-DRM services… that’s another case.

Steam, Games for Windows Live, Battle.NET 2.0 and now Ubisoft? Oh the hassle of managing them all!

Via: Joystiq.

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