Modern Warfare 2, Ubisoft's DRM woes

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In one of his latest Twitter messages, Infinity Ward's community manager Robert Bowling stated that Modern Warfare 2 has now reached 25 million unique players since its launch. That's spread out among all three platforms but Bowling states there are still "millions" of unique PC players. Bowling also said that more concrete info on their DLC releases for the game will be announced later this week.

Even though I really do not like their decision to not support dedicated servers, and the fact that the chose to announce it just before release, This once again proves how ineffective boycotts are. Most players don't want to subscribe to any kind philosophy of game development, they just want to play a fun game, and who can blame them.

Ubisofts DRM woes

UBI's new DRM system that requires players to log into UBI.com is having a little trouble. Due to what seems like a backlash from a few people who consider this draconian, their servers have been hit repeatedly with denial of service attacks, shutting down some players ability to play Assassin's Creed 2 and/or Silent Hunter 5

For the record, I hate this new DRM system. I think requiring players to have an always on and logged in internet connection only punishes legitamite customers. What dissappoints me however, is that gaming sites reporting about it do not in any way denounce this, even though by preventing players access to their games these people are doing something worse than any copy protection system, and trying to say that they are doing it for those same customers benefit is rediculous. People have a right to or to not purchase something, and blocking access to it is crap.

Shame on them