Here is what it says regarding drum and our protest:
Ubisoft's UPlay
I suppose this is as good a place as any to bring up Ubisoft's new Digital Rights Management System titled UPlay. Ubisoft has announced that UPlay will be included in all of its future releases starting with
Assassins Creed II and would include
Silent Hunter 5 . There is a large and quite vocal group of naval combat fans in the
Subsim Forums that has stated point-blank they will
not purchase the sim if it has Ubisoft's UPlay Services included.
This is my opinion on this controversial topic. I am not a fan of Ubisoft's UPlay Service as it is currently provided. It isn’t a deal killer for me, but it can be a decision maker if I am on the fence concerning the purchase of a piece of software. DRM software should make it difficult for hackers to copy and use the game, but it should be as minimally intrusive as possible for the purchaser of the software. Any DRM that prevents legitimate users from playing the game is a bad piece of software. It has to be remembered that it isn’t the hackers that pay the salaries of the executives in charge — it is the legitimate buyers of the game. Alienate them enough and there will fewer purchases. There are ways to check for legitimate users without resorting to such methods. Just look at what
StormEagle Studios did with their DRM protection software. It isn’t perfect, but in my opinion it does what it should do — allow legitimate game owners to play without constantly needing to be connected to the Internet. What do you think?
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