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Namco Bandai Partners: 'Ubisoft DRM a Good Strategy'

By james_fudge

Speaking to CVG in Barcelona this month for an interview to be published at a later date, Namco Bandai Partners VP Olivier Comte commented on Ubisoft's special brand of DRM, calling it "a good strategy." Much drink must have been provided sometime prior to the interview no doubt. Comte told the UK game mag that, until something better comes along, the Ubisoft system (which requires a constant internet connection(- is what the industry has to run with. Perhaps Comte doesn't read very many web sites or game magazines..

Here's precisely of what he said:

"I will be very honest. I think it's a good [approach] for one reason: I have no alternative today," he said. "Is the best one? Certainly not but as of today if I can make something else I'll do it, but it's better to do something than not do something. At the moment they are doing a good strategy."

But even while he praised Ubisoft's DRM solution - probably the most draconian approach to protection in recent memory - he acknowledged that there are plenty of other solutions the company is looking into: Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on May 27, 2010 (boomark / email).