The highly successful video game, Assassin’s Creed II, is having their PC Game release this March 9th. Gamers, expected to have the same, or better experience on their PC, are now faced with a new issue: Ubisoft’s new DRM.

Assassin’s Creed 2′s PC DRM sucks:

From Steam:

“3rd-party DRM: UBISOFT REQUIRES A PERMANENT HIGH SPEED INTERNET CONNECTION AND CREATION OF A UBISOFT ACCOUNT TO PLAY THIS VIDEO GAME AT ALL TIMES.”

This means that unless you have a constant internet connection, you cannot play the game. In the end, it does not cost sixty dollars to buy AC2, it costs ninety dollars the first month, and thirty dollars (for the internet connection) the subsequent months. Ubisoft believes that this will reduce piracy, but I don’t doubt for a moment that someone will “beat the system”.

If you don’t want to pay for a personal internet connection, you could always go to Starbucks or the Corner Bakery and buy a small snack for the complementary WIFI.

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