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Sega Re-Examines Uniloc’s Potential For Alpha Protocol

It’s somewhat of an interesting tale: There was once a company called Sega who used a DRM called Uniloc on a game called Football Manager 2009. It was a marriage made in Heaven…then all of a sudden their honeymoon was drastically cut short. A mob of irate gamers bearing issues of their online activation system rocked up on their doorstep. A distribution of justice was imminent. Not Sega or Uniloc had expected such complications. Nor did they expect the angry gamers. Still, neither complained, as newlyweds normally do. And so they worked and toiled through a solution with immediate haste. They staved off chaos. And they urged calm and patience from all sides. The problem seemed defused. Gamers went back with happy smiles. And no one ever heard from Uniloc or Sega again. It’s somewhat of a happily-ever-after story.

And then it becomes official – Alpha Protocol will utilise Uniloc’s DRM system.

Links:

Joystiq
VG247
Game Daily
EuroGamer
Ve3D
Neoseeker

With all the snafu surrounding the latest news on Ubisoft’s DRM, not to mention the legacy SecuROM left behind with its so-called “non-invasive” DRM, people would think publishers would get the hint with DRM as a whole. Still it’s somewhat early days for Uniloc as the game developed by Obsidian and released by Sega will be released at the end of May / early June. More updates from RYG to follow.

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