Watch Your Wallets, Ten Steps to OSP/DRM Doom
 

Who was it who said, A sucker is born every day?
Let’s look at Ubi’s OSP way of doing business transactions.
1.) You give them money
2.) They take it and they send you a DVD
3.) You are now a little bit poorer, Ubi made a bit of money
4.) You install game, register, connect to server and play
5.) Ubi spends money every time you log in to OSP
6.) The more you play, the more money UBI has to spend on you
7.) Ubi does not like spending money after they made a sale.
8.) Now they know your playing habits. Since you save your game on their server, this storage space not only costs Ubi more and more, but they also learn about your personality.
9.) Eventually comes the day when the say, we will no longer spend money to keep this sucker online.
10.) Good morning, sucker! Now you pay us if you want to keep playing.

That’s the 10 Step Program.
Not many suckers are falling for this scheme, but a few are.
Those complaining about the negativity in this forum, watch your wallets!

Hmm let me see, normal fee is about 13 euros a month to keep your account active.
But keep in mind that money is well spend to take the servers down for maintenance on regular bases to keep it up to date.

Mud

we need to make use of the "viral marketing effect" and post in all available forums and blogs about the bad facts of this game.

we need really bad publicity...this is what might work to send some signal...

Not only UBI scare me with ideas like this. In the nearest 2-4 years "someone" probably made another Windows based on the "10 steps program", or something similar.:nope:

EBgames is listing the two newUBI upcoming games Assassins creed 2 and Splintercell conviction at 59.99,hmm high prices and DRM,one more reason not to buy any more Ubi games

They also can plug off the SHV server and force players to buy next SH product.

Then they wonder why their software gets pirated by people :-?

The all new 10 commandments for gamers :damn:

The Inquirer blasts Ubisoft
2K Games bends to customer demands to drop DRM


Ubisoft touts games drm - The Inquirer

Ubisoft has a history of badly implemented DRM solutions and DRM methods deployed by publishers could potentially damage sales. Only this Monday 2K Games caved in to public pressure and said that it was scaling back DRM on its forthcoming Bioshock 2 release.

Ubisoft touts games drm - The Inquirer

See, protests do work



While DRM itself has its place, badly implemented DRM does more harm than good and this one from Ubisoft sounds like a shocker to the nth degree. It's not front page news that content providers want to protect their intellectual property but a viable solution seems to be in another postcode right now. The only thing we can say for sure is that for every new fangled snake-oil DRM platform hitting the market, there'll be a few sweaty pre-pubescent hackboys waiting to breach it and brag. µ

I totally agree. :DL

Don't be surprised, this is already standard operating procedure for EA and its various sports games. Even Activision with the Modern Warfare franchise is moving in that direction now that multiplayer has been forcefully taken back from gamers through the absense of dedicated server support.

Since this thread was merged, this new posting got shoved waaay back.

With apologies I'm reposting it here.


Who was it who said, A sucker is born every day?
Let’s look at Ubi’s OSP way of doing business transactions.
1.) You give them money
2.) They take it and they send you a DVD
3.) You are now a little bit poorer, Ubi made a bit of money
4.) You install game, register, connect to server and play
5.) Ubi spends money every time you log in to OSP
6.) The more you play, the more money UBI has to spend on you
7.) Ubi does not like spending money after they made a sale.
8.) Now they know your playing habits. Since you save your game on their server, this storage space not only costs Ubi more and more, but they also learn about your personality.
9.) Eventually comes the day when the say, we will no longer spend money to keep this sucker online.
10.) Good morning, sucker! Now you pay us if you want to keep playing.

That’s the 10 Step Program.
Not many suckers are falling for this scheme, but a few are.
Those complaining about the negativity in this forum, watch your wallets!
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:haha:

That would never fly. As soon as they take that last step, management would have to go into hiding and people would be taking the company to court. There are definitly judges that would deem such actions as punishable. Not to mention the fact every single customer would turn his back on the company. :)

Of course, it will never reach stage 10 because DRM/OSP is engineered to fail.

Single player offline failure possibilities.

1) Power failure
2) Computer failure
3) Game failure

Online DRM/OSP failure possibilities

1) Power failure
2) Computer failure
3) Game failure
4) Modem failure
5} ISP failure
6} Log in failure
7) Server failure

BONUS:

Heart failure from being so pissed at Ubi

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