noamlol2Apr 17 2013 at 12:19am heroes 6 sucks anyway...
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DePhoegonDedicated in Prince of Persia: The Forgotten SandsDec 25 2012 at 9:23am via desktop app This is why I don't install browser plugins for anything except trusted sources, and I never use browser toolbars. The crazy thing is, that alot of the Browser toolbars are a high security risk, and one possible hack could get into almost any of them really. There is also a reason you don't run your browser with admin rights, while not using a launcher to load your browser either. OP seems slow and missing some very basic common sense takes on what is safe and what's just not worth the risk.
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AsergoyAug 15 2012 at 7:19pm Alot of talking from you guys...but what in the world are you doing to to fix this problem...actualy Wtf is Ubisoft Doing to fix this problem. No wonder piracy is better then the official release.
- DePhoegonDedicated in Prince of Persia: The Forgotten SandsDec 25 2012 at 9:28am via desktop app Sure, pirate a game because you were an idiot and didn't follow simple computer safety practices
  
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  - Sergeant TbagMar 1 2013 at 1:32pm via desktop app no pirate ubi games because of thier crap DRM and public policies. look @ all the bullshit outa ubi fuck them
    
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    DePhoegonHardcore in Prince of Persia: The Forgotten SandsMar 1 2013 at 6:13am via desktop app @Sergeant Tbag Really, you couldn't idk.. not get those games?
    
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    Sergeant TbagMar 1 2013 at 6:29am via desktop app @DePhoegon why should people miss out on a great game because ubis idiotic drm system? now, to be clear i buy all my games and theres plenty of ubi games in my library that suffered greatly back in the always on days. really its silly to demand a internet connection to play a single player aspect of a game you bought.
    
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    DePhoegonHardcore in Prince of Persia: The Forgotten SandsMar 1 2013 at 6:32am via desktop app @Sergeant Tbag While I agree that it sucks to miss out on a great game because a company is being a huge douche, that still doesn't make it good to basically steal. You know why Gamers are considered push over pussies? Because they don't have the fucking balls to not play a game they really want to, from a company that's pulling BS actions like that. They'll just steal it and look worse then the company who did the shitty action to start with. You want others to treat you with any respect and if your opinions actually matter, then do something respectable and stand behind not supporting a company by not buying their products, or stealing them.
    
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    Sergeant TbagMar 1 2013 at 6:37am via desktop app @DePhoegon nah prove thier shitty anti-pirate drm only hurts the legit owners by pirating that shit to prove the point. but ubi stopped having the always on drm so they learned... tho the support there really blows still
    
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    DePhoegonHardcore in Prince of Persia: The Forgotten SandsMar 1 2013 at 6:40am via desktop app @Sergeant Tbag They stopped having the DRM becuase their sales numbers hit the ground faster then they thought it would happen when the AC shit storm happened. People stopped buying the games, and demanded a refund. THAT"S how they learned. The people who didn't pirate sent the message to them. Honestly, that kept me and my X from buying their games outright, even on console, and my X was a huge fan of the games.
    
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    LaughinGarryHardcore in Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future SoldierMar 4 2013 at 1:04pm @DePhoegon When you steal something, it's physically missing. Just saying... It's more like getting somewhere by bus and not paying for it. You can say that you would rather walk than pay for the bus but you've got a bus full of people who paid and who are mad about somebody not paying like they should. BTW: Having balls to not play a game you really want to? What does that even have to do with having balls FFS?
    
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    DePhoegonHardcore in Prince of Persia: The Forgotten SandsMar 4 2013 at 10:04pm @LaughinGarry Because it has to do with honor & respect. While it may not directly harm them, it does show a lot of about you. Not enough self respect to hold your self back from playing game you didn't buy or had bought for you. It's not the stealing as in 'Oh noes... he's missing something.' It's the kind where, you honestly can see the person has near Zero morals of any kind, if they aren't even willing to buy a game they want to play. *used or new*
    
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    TenBensonsHardcore in Silent Hunter 5Mar 25 2013 at 6:22pm via desktop app @DePhoegon Respect works both ways, well at least it should. Are UBI's hands clean?
    
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  - LaughinGarryHardcore in Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future SoldierMar 4 2013 at 12:57pm There's difference between not following safety practices and having malicious feature installed into your computer by sources that are supposed to be 100% safe. The publisher are supposedly doing what they can to fight piracy on PC but they sure as hell seem to be trying really hard to encourage it. I personally got tired of it and quit PC as gaming platform completely.
    
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    DePhoegonHardcore in Prince of Persia: The Forgotten SandsMar 4 2013 at 10:14pm @LaughinGarry 1. Then you are a complete moron, who doesn't even take the basic security steps to counter 'shady business' practices. 2. Quitting an entire platform because of what 1 company did is almost laughable. No 1 company makes PC gaming what it is, and UbiSoft sure the hell isn't even the best PC dev out there to be considered make or break if you are a graphics hound. Get tired of the bs all you want, but love how you ignore that consoles are locked to 1 digital store & now are developing Backwards compatabilty problems where you'll have to keep your system running long after it's stop being 'current gen' just to play the games you bought. *isn't that lovely* While publishers go nuts with anti piracy, that crap is easily counterd legally, using easy to find methods. *And with Ubisoft, in cases regarding this one, it's disabling Browser plugins, which is highly suggested for EVERY 3rd party Plugin, as they ALL ARE A SECURITY RISK -aka basic security precautions-* I can the few 'questionable publishers and even the few stupid ones *and not buy their games to boot*, but honestly the sheer amount of publishers, devs, & Indies that are on the PC platform [Windows] is such that it's a laughable joke if one or two decide to go retard for a few years, and that's not even accounting for the vast library & ability to play PS2& earlier consoles as well, which makes the choice of games the largest it possibly could be.
    
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    LaughinGarryHardcore in Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future SoldierMar 4 2013 at 11:52pm @DePhoegon I didn't quit an entire platform because of 1 company's policies but because of pretty much everyone's policies. The thing is, I'm not one to play minecraft all day. Sure, I like the game but most indie games aren't appealing to me. In the days of Quake and UT, PC was the capitol of gaming. Everything was improving so fast you could actually have trouble keeping check on everything new. (today, the situation is quite the opposite - you hear about something and then it takes years for it to be available on the market) But then the new gen of consoles came and PC started to become more and more irrelevant for AAA gaming. Consoles had lots of titles before PC. And on PC, you had to deal with all sorts of countermeasures introduced by publishers. You could either play by their rules or work your way around them. Either way, you had to deal with them. Yes, disabling a plugin is easy but there shouldn't be one in the first place and when I don't even get the option to not have it installed, I think that makes it OK for me to be upset about it. Can't I just install the damn game and play it? Wait a sec. I can on a console. And I'm not one to desire photorealism, so why the fuck not? As for the digital store... There's digital store and digital store. I still prefer to buy a physical copy over a digital one (call me old fashioned, IDC). Even with a digital store, it still happens through a publisher and the developer gets 7$ for his own 60$ game at best. As for buying DLC, I'm actually glad I can download it from one place without having to worry where I got the game from and who released it. I guess it's one of the things why some people prefer Mac over PC. Everything is centralized. Yes, you can potentially get less content, but you can just download it and worry about nothing but the game. I do have my complaints about consoles, like complete lack of user created content, severe lack of good strategy games, the whole system being designed for typical living room setups and there's probably some minor stuff I could think of. But I prefer to deal with those than some of the stuff on PC. Also, I'm for Europe, where lots of local publishers release localized games for PC with lousy translation and without official support and generally give you ton of extra stuff to deal with. Yes, the choice of games is much larger on PC, no doubt. But once I filter the games that I would actually want to play, the selection gets more or less equal (aside from the strategy games I mentioned before). Now to those "basic security precautions"... why do you even bring it up? Like I said, that plugin shouldn't be there in the first place. It's not about practical side of the problem, it's about it's principle. I could actually say that I do what you suggested. I don't like how they treat me on PC, so I'm not buying their games for PC. Shits and gigles: I don't even want to see what a wall of text I just wrote.
    
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    LaughinGarryHardcore in Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future SoldierMar 4 2013 at 11:54pm @LaughinGarry Not as bad as I thought.
    
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    DePhoegonHardcore in Prince of Persia: The Forgotten SandsMar 4 2013 at 12:56am @LaughinGarry 1. Basic Security for PC platform is pretty much standard. You don't get to run a PC for any decent length of time and avoid trouble without knowing the basics. -As for principle then really you should protest the always on shit they do for some consoles games, having to pay per month/year for XBL gold to even talk to & play games with your friends, or then locked down nature & small HDD for media & stored games for the Xbox/360 line, the way the PS3 doesn't allow video capture on HDMI because it's worried you'll pirate bluray movies, or how they've removed some features, then made it PSN+ only ones. --Your sense of principles are laughable if you think PC platform treats you worse. Though as digital titles go, Good fucking luck finding some limited produced games on disc, or even being able to get them once the 'next gen' gets rolling solidly *~8-18 months after console launch* Localization issues aren't the fault of PC or Console, it's the devs and the companies hired to do the localization for them. Ya, It's soooo horrible now for [Windows] PC platform... I mean Steam(Valve), Origin(EA), Impulse(Gamestop), Desura, all like digital clients that manage games... Look at that lack of centralization... *gasp* and the deals that you can find for games as well. It's not like those clients manage & are able to update the games or anything..... Oh ... You can actually be offline to run a single player game (after it's activated & setup). Seriously, What's this complex installing coming from? I've never done anything more then just run the setup to install, update, then play.. which consoles do as well. I've wondered what people are smoking when they say that. I've not had one issue relating to that, and companies like GoG, have gone a LONG way to make old games run near perfect on new systems with no issues installing them. :P I am not one for photorealism, nor did I say it. Graphics Hound means you would actually like better graphics and a smoother game play experience as well. Instead of the stutter & upscaling that happens in more recent console games *because they have to sadly* Idk what you are talking about, but games are improving.. and to the fact that the extra long current gen cycle has actively held back Gaming because of the old hardware on the consoles. *and yes they've managed some impressive stuff on it, but it's reached it's limit a while ago* -We've had games that could have exploited & used physics or PhysX in games, but wasn't used because the consoles would roll over & die. We've had games that were actively damaged by bad FPS on consoles [Dark Souls] & when it comes to PC (even with a FPS limited engine) It looks & preforms MUCH BETTER. While I love Console gaming on my PS3, I also no that getting console games is more expensive then PC games.. and there is no way in heck I'd be able to get the selection of games for any reasonable price on the PS3 that I currently have on the PC. While true, mere selection & choice don't make it better, but it does enable you to try new games & genres that you just would NOT be able to do otherwise. There are just Genres & entire styles of games that utterly fucking fail on the Consoles, because you just can't replace a KB&M with a 24 Button controller.
    
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    LaughinGarryHardcore in Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future SoldierMar 5 2013 at 10:09am @DePhoegon You see, I generally agree with what you just said. I'm not a console fag shut-in who feels he must remain loyal for some reason even the company doesn't care about. I didn't blame anything on PC as a platform. I said I blame this stuff on publisher and I also said I prefer physical over digital (although not as much as I did few years back as I bought a bunch of games through XBL GoD). When you're buying all digital, it's a bit different story, although Steam does sometimes sell localized games without even telling you they are region-locked and may not receive updates and DLC. I also didn't say decentralization is bad, just that it's not preferable for some people. More choice (in everything) is always better. It's not about wasted potential but about your options. I just say I am satisfied with the selection of games on consoles. Well - not now obviously, since we're at the end of current gen and nobody wants to release anything new. I'm generally okay with lack of backwards compatibility. I've played pretty much everything I wanted to play and with the exception of a few games, I won't be coming back to these titles. When I bough a console, I took it for guaranteed the next gen would not be compatible or that I might simply be on a different platform then. As for maintenance, it was not worth doing few years back. Windows XP was easier to wipe and re-install than to maintain, both timely and practically. Sure, you had to have some security up, but bothering with registry cleaning, performance tuning and trying to figure out the cause of your current problem which came out of blue... Nah, I'm good with spending 45 minutes a year re-installing it. It was stone age compared to W7. Come to think of it, PC would be a less of a trouble than a console because I'd just build a PC that fits into my setup. My setup isn't build exclusively for gaming and I had to... bend a lot of things and come up with workarounds to make it all work. On the other hand, I'd have to get a new chair and since I do not fancy placing my ass on a log of wood for longer than five minutes, a chair in which I might spend 5 and more hours a day is a legit part of setup and a valid concern. Oh one more thing: Always online on consoles... well, I have not run into a game that would not run while you're offline. The situation is a bit different with arcade titles on the 360 tho. If you purchase an arcade game, you can play it on your console whenever. However, if you download that game on a different console, THEN you (and other users) will only be able to play it when online, unless you transfer all your licenses to that console. I know there are talks of "always online" being on the next xbox. If that turns out to be true, xbox is a no-buy for me and I don't care if it's for all titles or digital copies only.
    
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    LaughinGarryHardcore in Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future SoldierMar 5 2013 at 10:11am @DePhoegon BTW, most games are made with consoles as a priority so controller is fine most of the time. Just remember all those games which have UI that is a pain in the ass on PC because it's made for controllers.
    
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Capt-RonyxAug 14 2012 at 9:53pm This is exactly the kind of shit that makes people pirate their games.
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nightingale2k1Aug 14 2012 at 5:52pm same did it with Origin when running Battlefield 3 ... ?
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Sable DrakonAug 14 2012 at 3:28pm Late article is insanely late. This is has been on Slashdot and Engadget for nearly 2 weeks. Seems people need more news sources that just gaming oriented ones.
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AsergoyAug 14 2012 at 10:43am wait soo I have HAWX 2 instaled and U-Play dose it mean I'm at risk. Or am I missing the point
- RaQinAug 14 2012 at 2:12pm Uplay is a rootkit. You are at risk.
  
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  - DePhoegonHardcore in Prince of Persia: The Forgotten SandsMar 1 2013 at 6:35am via desktop app If U-play is a rootkit, it's a fairly lousy rootkit. honestly. Easily terminated & shut down when the games are not in use. Though really, a decent Defense software & not giving U-play system premissions are easy ways to counter it. aka Not disabling UAC because it bothers you.
    
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Und3rgr0undAug 13 2012 at 5:18am does anyone know a fix for this if indeed is it legit? also what is the name of this process/plugin/rootkit/whatever the fuck
- Sable DrakonAug 14 2012 at 3:31pm It is legit, you need to do nothing more than disable the browser plugin and the problem goes away.
  
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Und3rgr0undAug 13 2012 at 5:17am this is wonderful news....just awesome
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UncleToxieAug 13 2012 at 10:40pm My understanding is that you are not given the option to not install the plugin, it's just done in the background when you install the game.
- DonkyBoYAug 13 2012 at 2:44am you are correct the browser plugin is installed with out my knowledge in the background when i install any Ubisoft/uplay title and is a complete breach of my privacy way to treat a paying customer Ubisoft
  
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  - Sable DrakonAug 14 2012 at 3:30pm If you take the time to read the EULA for the game, there is mention of the plugin. Ignorance is not an excuse, you did agree to it by installing the game. That doesn't make what Ubisoft did right, it only makes it perfectly legal.
    
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    UncleToxieAug 14 2012 at 3:53pm @Sable_Drakon Hasn't this already been fixed? I remember reading something about this last week.
    
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    Sable DrakonAug 14 2012 at 3:54pm @UncleToxie I doubt that it's been fixed by Ubisoft. But the current 'fix' is to just disable the browser plugin.
    
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blackwolf22303Aug 13 2012 at 7:03pm wait...some of these games are not on the PC, but only on the 360 (as far as I know) : Just Dance 3 and Your Shape Fitness. Besides, it should be a known rule to never install any browser tool bars, they can slow down the performance of your browser. Am I not understanding this post?
- RaQinAug 14 2012 at 2:11pm You are correct about the JD3 and Your Shape Fitness...look beyond those. The author made a couple mistakes. lol
  
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