So is there some known limitation now on how many PCs the game can be installed/activated? We've already had all these '3-5 activations and yer out!'-type of schemes, and many people didn't seem to be too fond of them either.The settlers are foremost in real-time strategy elements over the city building, focusing more on the battle as its predecessor. I guess that's why they are also pushing the 'social features' in so many games, then they can claim it is not DRM anymore, even if even a single-player game needs to contact their servers.īy the way, I presume it still keeps tracks of the activations. They must be mightily annoyed that so many people are not fine with always-online DRM on their games, so they are backing down from it for now.

Maybe they originally thought 'Hey, if Blizzard can do it with Diablo 3, why shouldn't we do it as well?'. Just mentioning because you asked when GOG would release the game too.īut nice anyway that Ubisoft keeps loosening the DRM from their most draconian methods.

Yes, but I think even that one-time online activation would be against GOG's current policy about DRM.

Phaidox: In other words - yes, a one-time activation is still in place, but the always-online requirement is -oh, joy!- totally gone. In other words - yes, a one-time activation is still in place, but the always-online requirement is -oh, joy!- totally gone. It is worth mentioning that the first two of the aformentioned steps can be done entirely offline. All you have to do is install the game, update it to the latest version (via UPlay or manually, if you so desire), then connect to the internet only once when running the executable. Which, of course, is still much more preferable form of DRM. There's nothing new in that, there have been also other 'always online'-DRM games that changed the DRM to 'ok, you need to activate it only once when you install it on a new PC, but you still have to activate it'-DRM. If it still needs to be activated online before you can install or play it for the first time on that other PC, then unfortunately it still has online DRM. Can you still install and play it there, without any online activation needed? Timppu: Just so that you (or me) are not misunderstanding something:įrom your current PC where you are running the game, move it to another PC which is not connected to internet.

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