So... Who Wants to Sue Ubisoft for Their Newest DRM Feature?

[vvvvvvv]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.248607-Michael-Jackson-Counters-Piracy-With-Vuvuzela

Ubisoft has reached into the depths of evil to protect Michael Jackson: The Experience from portable piracy.

If you watched the World Cup (the world's soccer tournament, just to be clear), you probably already know the horror of the vuvuzela. Ubisoft surely does, and evidently uses the noise emitted from the incredibly annoying object to deter people from pirating Michael Jackson: The Experience on the Nintendo DS.

A vuvuzela is a long plastic horn that emits a buzz which will follow you to your nightmares after hearing it. The "instrument" took over the World Cup in 2010, much to the chagrin of everyone not blowing into one.

According to a video released on YouTube, anybody not playing a legitimate copy of the DS version of The Experience will hear Michael Jackson's music with no lyrics, and a vuvuzela playing over the beat instead. Believe it or not, a vuvuzela can even destroy a classic like Jackson's "Billie Jean."

Michael Jackson: The Experience on the DS is said to be similar to Elite Beat Agents, one of the greatest music games ever. The pirated version also doesn't bring any of the game's prompts up, making it completely unplayable just to add insult to aural injury.

The fact that a vuvuzela is even programmed into The Experience's code is enough for me to know that I'll never go near it. Game piracy is bad, but not even Cthulhu himself is more frightening than the sound of a vuvuzela. Ubisoft might have gone too far.

 

[Larry Morgan]

I'm sorry, but I think that's hilarious. When I saw the Slashdot article online the first time, I literally laughed out loud.

 

[Bierhunter]

My hatred for Ubisoft goes back about 10 years or so after I met in person some of their team on the Shadowbane project. Worst customer relations and game development destruction I've ever experienced.

I won't purchase anything they are associated with. They are almost as evil as EA.

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

That's awesome - good idea! Don't steal and it won't be a problem, now will it?

 

[GlocksInMySocks]

I think that is absolutely awesome

 

[zulater]

My hatred for Ubisoft goes back about 10 years or so after I met in person some of their team on the Shadowbane project. Worst customer relations and game development destruction I've ever experienced.

I won't purchase anything they are associated with. They are almost as evil as EA.

They singlehandedly destroyed Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six series

 

[XD-9Guy]

They make Splintercell don't they? They're okay in my book if they are responsible for that - Splintercell games on PS2 brought me out of video game retirement after college. Of course there was God of War II after that and now I've slipped back into retirement. Can't bring myself to pay for a PS3 knowing I'll only ever buy 3 to 5 games for it and then something better will come along in a few years and I'm boycotting Blueray so the DVD playing ability has zero appeal to me.