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Originally Posted by Highbury
The bottom line is (and don't kid yourselves, the bottom line is all Ubi will look at) is that yeah, 300 - 400 ppl from Subsim may pass on it because of this. But with the new distro methods like Steam you have it adverised as ready to go to millions of people every day. They WILL gain numbers over SHIV because of this.
Have any of you ever played a non Steam game that was later added to Steam? I have with a couple and going by online players the number shot up fourfold.. and we know most players don't go online.
Sure they will lose some of the dedicated old people, but will gain thousands of people who say "Oh what's this, I'll try it" on Steam. SHV will outsell SHIV. A new players money smells just as good as a Salty Old Dog's and Ubi will be pleased with themselves.
If you are angry because you have a poor connection, I feel for ya. If you are just trying to make a moral stand... good luck with that.. Ubi is laughing all the way to the bank.
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You got a point but there is one problem with this.
This is not Steam. This is Ubisoft's own copy protection. The game is still going to be sold at Gamestop/Best Buy/Frys/Etc. So the millions of "new" Steam customers that you say will see it, actually wont see it. I havent actually heard about them selling this thru Steam (yet). From what I understand, they are selling it thru the regular channels. The only thing that has changed is the DRM method. This wont get them many new customers.