Ubisoft’s DRM now less painful

The oppressive Ubisoft PC game DRM has been lifted! Well, mostly. The DRM copyright protection is still there, but it isn’t as annoying and restrictive as usual. Previously, games like Assassins Creed II and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction required players to maintain a constant internet connection if they wanted to actually play, because the DRM would be continually checking to make sure you didn’t abruptly decide to play an illegal version of the game you already showed you owned. Not anymore. But Ubisoft has patched both games to remove that requirement…