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Originally Posted by Dowly
Sorry, but making something official doesn't mean jack ****. Especially when it comes from someone (and I mean communities in general, not the 24th) that doesn't have the power to change anything or in other words put pressure to a company like Ubi.
As long as Ubi has paying customers from it's bigger selling titles, the subsim community very little to say about how Ubi runs things. We are "expendable".
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Unfortunately looking at the numbers, i.e. realizing that SHV is a niche product in a nice of 9% PC market sales that Ubisoft Corporate reported for 2009, I totally agree.
Even worse, the pirates cracking this damn thing and the likely DDOS attacks (disclaimer: unless it was just badly estimated need for OSP server capacity and architecture) will give Ubisoft all the reason now to claim that they released high value products and got screwed by software piracy again. They will not step back from DRM, and I expect even the $10 bin version will have it.
Ubisofts experiments on DRM in the past decade, its new 2010 business strategy paper and the way this company listens to customers is rather indicative of the importance it does not pays to the latter, but the big black $$$ sign it needs to hold up every year for stockholders and investors. The overall picture is just too consistent to expect any change.