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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat
John is right.
This has to be the stupidest line of reasoning I have seen up to now on these forums.
Hackers attacked Ubisoft's servers preventing legitimate users from using their software and...Ubisoft is to blame?
I have a better analogy than the car one. You have a bus pass and take the bus to work every day. The buses goes by every 10 minutes. The bus company, being good businessmen, even add extra buses to handle the rush hour. One day, terrorists block an intersection and stop every bus for the whole day. You are unable to get to work and are not paid for that day. You may blame the bus company, but under any legal system, your only legal recourse is against the terrorists...good luck with that...
And before anyone starts cheering for the hackers as a bunch of freedom loving kids protesting big bad Ubisoft's DRM. You should know that most denial of service attack these days are made by organized crime who profit hansomely from them.
So think about who to blame, a legitimate business trying to provide you the service you paid for or the criminals who are preventing it and getting rich in the process...  |
That line of reasoning holds only truth as long you accept the policy of having a single player game constantly online.
This acceptance was never there to begin with, and UBI has to convince people of their system first if they want to keep a certain percentage of customers loyal to their products. It's made worse by the impression the honest customer constantly has to pay for the pirates; these companies trying to solve their problems not in creative ways, like for example Bioware does for its games, but by forcing the customers into conditions they obviously not want. I do not know how many different game launcher programs I have my computer spammed with by now, rockstar games, windows life, ubi game launcher, steam, and so on. It's getting really annoying. Now a situation like this just sucks. If I never came here to this forum, if I simply bought this game and wanted to play, and I can't, without ever knowing the reasons, it sucks. And just because you know it's pirates fault, it still sucks. And it sucks to the point that the suckage slowly begins to outwight the fun.
I have a lot of understanding for the position of these companies, and that many folks in fear of moneylosses and shareholder value feel immense pressure to come up with solutions, even draconian ones, to protect sales. The business is pretty brutal after all.
But if this means taking and accepting the risk of making a lot of honest and longstanding loyal customers the enemy, then something runs terrible wrong in this policy.
Seriously, making customers angry/inconvinient = never a good idea, or did I miss something in business lately?
P.S. To make it really simple.
I bought a game.
I want to play the game.
I can't play the game.
The fault is not mine.