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Originally Posted by Yak
What backlash?
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This.
Their "backlash" has mostly been in the form of people complaining about the draconian, anti-consumer DRM, yet still going out and buying the game(s). Once they have your money, they couldn't care less about your opinion - unless it affects your future decision to buy their products. Which, they're discovering, it won't. People will just do the same thing all over again - complain about the DRM, yet find themselves unable to resist the lure of the product. And buy the whole, "Yeah, our servers were down, and it was due to rampaging pirates!" schtick.
EA will be a more interesting case study than Ubisoft for this stuff, though. They publish a much broader variety of games on the PC, and if they start seeing sales hits in big-ticket areas - which I doubt they will for the reason stated above - then they might consider yanking it. Ubi can explain away AC2 sales tanking as a fluke, and SH5 as a niche genre that no longer needs to be pursued, if those sales are in fact bad; if EA PC sales went south on series like Command and Conquer, Medal of Honor, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, or especially The Sims, you might see them reconsider.
Edit: Frankly, the aspect of this that really dejects me the most is the one that opponents of the anti-consumer DRM mention fairly frequently but that the proponents have no answer for, namely that when I'm in the sandbox, I won't have the required 'net connection to play any of the games that ship with it. They're really screwing a group of folks who don't deserve to be screwed with this crap.