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Far Cry 2 goes gold – and Lazygamer was the first site in the world to know about it

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News has finally started getting around the internet that Far Cry 2 has officially gone gold. The real kicker for us is that Lazygamer was the first site in the world to know about it.

How did this happen? Bribes, spy camera? No , it’s actually quite simple.

The fact of the matter is simply that I happened to be sitting having dinner with Far Cry 2 developers Clint Hocking and LP Pharand when they received the message that the Xbox 360 version had officially gone into production.

So why didn’t we report this a week ago? Well, the answer to that is pretty simple too. Not only that but we have some very interesting info on how the Far Cry 2 DRM will work on PC.

That and more, after the jump.

So, the news. After the news reached them and the excited congratulatory handshake between the two of them was done, I asked if I could, you know, tell the world. I was unfortunately asked to wait for the official press release to come out, so the scoop was unscooped due to it being something that was considered “off the record”.

It was exciting news to hear first hand though and keeping it to myself was a pretty tough job in itself. They were obviously waiting for all of the versions to go gold before making their announcement.

With regards to the DRM on PC, a Ubisoft Forum manager has posted up the details on the Ubi Forums. He says the following:

“Some DRM points that will hopefully answer some of your questions and will clarify some misunderstandings about our DRM and SecuROM:

– You have 5 activations on 3 separate PCs.

– Uninstalling the game “refunds” an activation. This process is called “revoke”, so as long as you complete proper uninstall you will be able to install the game an unlimited number of times on 3 systems.

– You can upgrade your computer as many time as you want (using our revoke system)

– Ubisoft is committed to the support of our games, and additional activations can be provided.

– Ubisoft is committed to the long term support of our games: you’ll always be able to play Far Cry 2.”

This is a pretty interesting system of security and I think it may be a step in the right direction considering that it really does give gamers a lot of freedom to install and uninstall the game over a few different systems.

Do you think something like this is fair? Or are anti-piracy measures still too harsh for the casual gamer?

But that is that, it’s gold, which means that we are one step closer to burning up half of the African savannah.

Far Cry 2 hits South African shelves on October 24.

Last Updated: October 15, 2008

10 Comments

  1. The only issue I have ever had with these type of DRM’s and
    the revoking is that if you didn’t completely uninstall the
    game,then you can’t revoke it afterwards.Which means that
    if your pc crashes or you upgrade something(it seems like with this as well) without uninstalling the game, you lose that credit.If they can find a way of somehow revoking such
    a lost credit(maybe online using the original disc somehow),
    I don’t have any issues with DRM’s.
    Regardless, I can’t wait for this game.

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  2. Nick

    October 15, 2008 at 14:11

    “- You can upgrade your computer as many time as you want (using our revoke system)” I think this has the upgrade thing covered but you make a good point about what will happen if the PC crashes or something like that.

    Its things like this that make me happy that i switched to console, no worries, just play.

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  3. V@mp

    October 15, 2008 at 14:45

    “You can upgrade your computer as many time as you want (using our revoke system)”
    As I read it, it says that you can upgrade as many times
    as you wanted as long as you revoke the credit beforehand.
    So if you forget about it,there goes your credit.
    Would be nice if they give a list of hardware upgrades that
    might cause this.
    Personally,I’ve never had any major issues with DRM,so apart
    from being a shlep,it doesn’t bother me…yet.
    It’s 2 years down the line that I’m worried about.

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  4. janrik

    October 15, 2008 at 15:42

    Are you still going to play a 2 year old game down the line?
    I almost never ever go back to games I have clocked.

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  5. V@mp

    October 15, 2008 at 16:26

    Sometimes I actually do.

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  6. ferver

    October 15, 2008 at 16:39

    Maybe you were the first to know… but you weren’t the first to tell us :):):):)

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  7. Fudzy

    October 15, 2008 at 17:39

    “The fact of the matter is simply that I happened to be sitting having dinner with Far Cry 2 developers Clint Hocking and LP Pharand when they received the message that the Xbox 360 version had officially gone into production.”

    Are the developers South African?

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  8. PillsburyDeeBoy

    October 15, 2008 at 19:09

    Nope. They came to Rage and then had a media event at a game reserve to which Nick was invited.

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  9. LazySAGamer

    October 15, 2008 at 22:06

    I know it sucks doesn’t it….
    We get to know first and then have to keep quiet and a big site gets the scoop because they bring in more revenue for the producers…

    But that’s life, we take our little victories when we can

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  10. DarkOcean

    October 16, 2008 at 08:43

    Lazy stuff the scoop I think the scoop was had by Nick who was able to spend some “quality” time with the uber talented duo. My scoop was that I can go around braqgging that I got some kills against the guys that actually MADE THE GAME 🙂 Heee haaa

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