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tater · 02-17-10, 09:26 AM

I hate being put in the position of paying Ubi "protection money."

That's the suggestion:

"You'll pays for this here game, and youse'll like it, or the subsim gets it, see?"

The proper relationship is that we, the customer, are to be wooed.

I was willing to buy SH5 even though I'd never play it to "support a decent subsim engine," but there are limits to the abuse I'll take from Ubi for the privilege of giving them what to me is nothing but a charitable contribution (and they're not even 501c3, so I can't have the accountant write it off). OSP is past that limit if I EVER know it's there by virtue of it delaying me, etc.

Before the DRM stuff, I'd have wanted it to be a success. WITH the DRM stuff, a success will only embolden Ubi, all the OSP titles need to fail since the only voice they'll listen to is sales figures. Of course the rocket scientist who thought of OSP will claim all the failures were bad games, not the OSP. Not my problem, though.

02-17-10, 09:26 AM	#71
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	I hate being put in the position of paying Ubi "protection money." That's the suggestion: "You'll pays for this here game, and youse'll like it, or the subsim gets it, see?" The proper relationship is that we, the customer, are to be wooed. I was willing to buy SH5 even though I'd never play it to "support a decent subsim engine," but there are limits to the abuse I'll take from Ubi for the privilege of giving them what to me is nothing but a charitable contribution (and they're not even 501c3, so I can't have the accountant write it off). OSP is past that limit if I EVER know it's there by virtue of it delaying me, etc. Before the DRM stuff, I'd have wanted it to be a success. WITH the DRM stuff, a success will only embolden Ubi, all the OSP titles need to fail since the only voice they'll listen to is sales figures. Of course the rocket scientist who thought of OSP will claim all the failures were bad games, not the OSP. Not my problem, though.