The economy is hard all right, so you do everything possible to make your customers happy because many are hanging on to their money. It's not my job to worry about a designer sitting at home, he wouldn't be if common sense practices were put in place.
Many of us didn't buy SH5 because of DRM..Let's see, couple hundred post of people that couldn't play their game Sunday because Ubi's servers were down.. Doesn't matter how or why, they were down. They went down once and they will again. It will be a problem that will continue until it's dropped. I can see it now. Have the day to yourself. Get your drink ready, sit and ready for some game time...cannot connect...not me.
If I operated my business by delivering a half finished product that could only be used when I said so...I would rightfully be out of business.
That tells me it was the right decision not to buy and wait until I can get it in a bargain bin...Many customers not buying equals DRM is the problem. If they think they can make more money by stopping pirates a few days over thousands not buying until it's in a bargain bin...the pirates have a double win. Not to mention they've created a new generation of pirates.
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