haha, no. ubisoft's just willing to bs the fact that they got their servers wrecked, it was cracked in a day,
and they initially denied all that or pretended it was something positive ('oh a lot of traffic on our servers MUST MEAN A LOT OF BUYERS').
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/assassinscreed2/news/6253104/pc-assassins-creed-ii-stumbles-on-ubisoft-drm-server-snafu
and there was most certainly no reduction of piracy for AC2 either. that's just them talking out their asses to an imaginary fairy as i've no idea how in the hell they'd get those figures. just checked to see how Brotherhood's doing on the main torrent site everyone knows. doin' better than black ops and crysis 2. short version goes Ubi tries to sound good. to give the rundown of how AC2 went:
- released in europe.
- cracked day 1. ubisoft claimed it the crack was something 'incomplete.'
- server emulator within a week to mimic their system entirely.
- cracked fully in a month.
....so uh... can't say it worked in terms of stopping the damage. and certainly can't say it stopped people downloading it seeing how big a torrent was in general all around that was, by no means, a small quantity of people.
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