Whole game leaked, folks playing it, streaming it, the whole nine yards.

Ubisof already confirmed the leak is real.

https://www.ign.com/articles/ubisoft-responds-to-assassins-creed-shadows-leak

Damn!

I don't believe in curses but i bet by now Ubi does.

Lol When you keep delaying it, people will take matters into their own hands.

They honestly might as well release there modern catalog DRM free at this rate, people are going to get there hands on it might as well offer an easy and hassle free way to do it.

Yet another proof that DRM is not (and has never been) about preventing illicit games distribution.

Surely whoever leaked it is getting a huge lawsuit. As much as people can hate Ubisoft, this is grossly incompetent.

Or very snide marketing.

lol , like really... I mean okay, i am someone who's 'for' a legal punishment by death. I mean i just can't keep up with the reasoning that it is okay to jail someone untill life's end and keep them sedated during that period if you know what i mean...
I am of course not planning on outlining the specific details for when someone should receive that punishment....

Only murderers or any criminal activity that strays of the general average? That's a tough one. I mean if your woke you understand we live in a society that caters to many, who am i to decide that a rapist or a thief should be punished by death because of his apparent choice to live..... and that is not even talking about how we tend to people who have some form of mental dysfunction. The law does not apply to those. If I lived in a society that is ruled top notch, produces people that keep themselves in check, manages to root out most forms of injustice before they would appear and most of all manages to supply a good degree of welfare without any form of abuse... than it would be easy....

Tron 2 in the board room meeting.

It is all under control people! The freebie was Totally intentional....yeah, thats the ticket! >_>

I guess Ubisoft needs to get comfortable with not owning their games...

It has always been about giving the (hollow) impression to corporate shareholders that something is being done to try to combat piracy. Whether it works or not or harms legitimate consumers are a minor concerns.

There is also the conspiracy theory floating around that the leak was an intentional inside job. A convenient excuse for when the game will not sell well.

That game couldn't catch a break.

How do you clear a minefield? Send Ubisoft in, they won't miss a single one :P

I suspect shareholders are not that naive.

There is one thing, and one thing only, DRM has been very good at since its early days: vendor lock-in. And vendor lock-in is all about legit customers, not illicit ones.

DRM is a pain for legit customers? Well, it’s because it’s exactly its goal, this is not a side-effect.

I think you're over-estimating the average stock market investor. I'll bet the vast majority that invest in stocks of video game companies know very little about video games, or the technologies that accompany them. (much like most of the AAA corporate CEOs, it seems ...)

Sure, things like Steam DRM are part of their client-based store lock-in framework. However, I struggle to see how other forms of DRM, like Denuvo, play a role in vendor lock-in. Denuvo doesn't prevent gamers from buying similar games from other studios, or lock people in to having to buy from a particular online store.