Ubisoft confirmed today that thanks to Valve’s Steam platform, the publisher’s upcoming strategy game R.U.S.E. will be playable offline, thereby sidestepping Ubisoft’s oft criticized DRM protection.
“When R.U.S.E. is released in September,” Ubisoft senior community developer Aymeric Evennou posted on the game’s official forums, “it will benefit from Valve’s Steamworks API to offer the best community experience to players. Consequently, a Steam account and Internet connection will be required to activate the game, as per Steam policy. For this reason, R.U.S.E. will not use the Ubisoft protection. Single player can be played offline.”
Ubisoft has been dealing with the fallout of its decision to introduce PC security protections that require a constant internet connect to play offline since the release of Assassin’s Creed II back in March. Shortly thereafter, Ubisoft’s servers were hacked, preventing some ACII players from being able to play the game.
It will be interesting to see whether Ubisoft will run into the same problem it had with ACII and Silent Hunter 5 when it tries to release R.U.S.E. on Steam in the UK. I guess we’ll find out for sure when the game releases next month. I’m waiting to hear back from Ubisoft about it, so stay tuned.
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mil77
All hail Valve, last line of defense against Microsoft / Activision and every stupid idea from anyone trying to cash in on DLC or pointless stuff for $$$. We love you Valve, only you can make Ubisoft bend on their DRM nonsense, if their really is a god he will throw a next gen console into your lap and the gaming world will rejoice as Microsoft / Sony's heads asplode at the concept of free stuff for all = money in the long run.
TromboneFanatic
I'm a Silent Hunter fan, but I haven't bought SH5 yet, in part, because of the DRM. The other reason: both SH3 & SH4 were massively broken when first released, it took Ubi about 3 patches to get each one right. From reading Ubi's own community forums, SH5 is in the same boat, but they've still released patches and the game is still broken. Why is Ubisoft doing this to us? I love their Silent Hunter games, I want to buy it, but it doesn't seem right to reward such poor results by voting yes to their products with my wallet.
EthanWoods
So why not just use Steam for your other games too?
These people defy logic.
MajorChipHazard
I'm believe that this RTS will be better for me because it doesn't lock your camera onto one indidvidual unit. You can view a much larger part of the battlefield at once. Plus I like a good WWII game.
JowyBlight
All of a sudden this game just reminds me of tom Clancy's End War
PANICincorp
This game looks epic! Can't wait, haven't had a good RTS to suck away my life in a while! Sure theres StarCraft 2, but it's locked down tighter than a $#*$ in a ^&*% and no offline skirmish? WTF!!??
mechudo90
Once again, steam pwns.
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