{"id":338666,"date":"2010-02-18T20:46:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T01:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100218\/1514238229.shtml"},"modified":"2010-02-18T20:46:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T01:46:40","slug":"ubisoft-drm-gets-worse-and-worse-kicks-you-out-of-game-if-you-have-a-flakey-wifi-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/338666","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft DRM Gets Worse And Worse: Kicks You Out Of Game If You Have A Flakey WiFi Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, we wrote a bit about Ubisoft’s bizarre anti-consumer policy of using DRM on games that requires an internet connection<\/a> to check in (even if you’re just playing locally). But, it gets worse. As a whole bunch of you sent in (but compgeek<\/a> was first), apparently it doesn’t just check once to see if you have an internet connection, but regularly checks, and if you’ve lost that internet connection, it will boot you out of the game<\/a> and you’ll lose everything that you’ve done since your last checkpoint or save. This is a serious problem for anyone who has even slightly flakey WiFi or an internet connection that goes down frequently (all too common these days). Ubisoft’s history with DRM is filled with similar missteps, and it’s really amazing that the company seems to be so oblivious to why treating fans badly is such a bad idea.<\/p>\n

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Last month, we wrote a bit about Ubisoft’s bizarre anti-consumer policy of using DRM on games that requires an internet connection to check in (even if you’re just playing locally). But, it gets worse. As a whole bunch of you sent in (but compgeek was first), apparently it doesn’t just check once to see if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}