Why Guru3D probably never will review Ubisoft titles anymore - Anno 2070

Found on Guru3D on Tuesday, 17 January 2012
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We know (well at least we figured we knew), that the game key can be used on three systems. That's fair, the first activation is used on my personal game rig. The second we installed on the AMD Radeon graphics test PC and the 3rd on our NVIDIA graphics test PC.

For the NVIDIA setup I take out the GTX 580, and insert a GTX 590. When I now startup the game 'BAM', again an activation is required. Once again I fill out the key and now Ubisoft is thanking me with the message that I ran out of activations.

Their reply goes like this: 'Sorry to disappoint you - the game is indeed restricted to 3 hardware changes and there simply is no way to bypass that. We also do not have 7 copies of the game for you'.

We have been contacted by bluebyte over the weekend, the company that developed the Anno series. Our key has been pretty much unlocked allowing us to properly work on this article.

So much for "there simply is no way to bypass that". Any company that has to do with gamers should know that they change their systems quite often and replace hardware to get the best performance. Ubisoft practically forces customers to stick to a system without changes in order to play their game; and as the past has proven numerous times, the pirated version will have that DRM removed, delivering a way better experience for free.