According to new findings, Ubisoft’s draconian DRM system is even worse than we thought. The company has received heavy criticism for the limitation it puts on PC players, like having a constant Internet connection in order to play offline games. Now, it appears that the DRM software also monitors your hardware changes, and if any major changes are made, the game won’t run. Those changes could include a simple graphics card upgrade.
PC enthusiast site Guru3D found out that if you swapped your graphics card, Anno 2070 would no longer run and would refuse to be installed on the system. We dunno about you, but this is definitely taking it too far.
Ubisoft has announced that its Just Dance games have sold a whopping 25 million copies today, which now makes Just Dance a real franchise, with sales numbers up there with Gears of War and Uncharted. And that’s for a series that most hardcore gamers, even most gamers, don’t really take seriously. But with 6 games and 25 million copies sold, Just Dance is now a huge franchise for Ubisoft, which the latest title confirmed: Just Dance 3, released in October, has sold 7 million units to date. That’s more than Rage. More than Crysis. More than Battlefield 3. More than a lot of AAA games out there.
Ubisoft has announced that their newest Ghost Recon game, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, will be hitting the store shelves in the first quarter of 2012, meaning a January to April release date. It’s probably for the better, seeing as how the holiday season is crammed with high profile titles. Recently, Mass Effect 3 was pushed from Fall 2011 to early 2012 for the same reasons.
The delay of Future Soldier was announced by Ubisoft head Yves Guillemot, who said that the company wants to assure the quality of the title. He added, “as well as to avoid the very crowded Christmas landscape in the shooter genre”. Which makes just as much sense. Ghost Recon Future Soldier was originally scheduled for release this Summer, then it was pushed to this Fall, and now we’ll be seeing it in early 2012.
