Last week, BeefJack brought to everyone’s attention the fact that the Steam pre-order page for Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood was missing any mention of Ubisoft’s controversial always-on PC DRM scheme, as used in its predecessor and other recent Ubisoft titles. Did this mean they were dropping it from AC: Brotherhood?
Today, Ubisoft have confirmed that, yes, the always-on requirement to play singleplayer is gone from the new PC game. An Ubisoft rep told VG247: “The PC version of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, after an initial login, will be playable offline in single player mode”. Multiplayer, introduced for the first time in the franchise in Brotherhood, will of course still require a connection.
It seems like a victory for common sense as well as the PC community, who were vociferous in their opposition to the stringent DRM imposed on Assassin’s Creed 2, which would see the single-player game freeze if your internet connection dropped. Ubisoft have recently been patching it out of the earlier titles.
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Victory for common sense indeed.
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Mal (February 22nd, 2011)