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Originally Posted by McHub532
I'm trying to wrap my mind around why they would ever remove it. Let me try and lay out what I'm thinking.
1. Ubisoft decides DRM is important enough to lose out on 60% sales of a product because of DRM.
2. Ubisoft turns out a piece of software (whatever the reasons) that is sub-par (well, for most companies anyway).
3. Time passes....
Why would they ever remove DRM? The reasons they wanted it so bad haven't been removed have they? And they've already told 60% of their customers to go Frag off. Right?
Why would they remove the DRM? Why would they suddenly care?
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Because the aim of DRM is in most cases to delay the leak of the software onto the pirate scene until after the official release. Not locking down the software perpetually. That would be a reason to remove it. In this case though, I think the DRM is too tightly integrated into the software to simply do away with because of that reason, so it might be left in even though the main window of usefulness has passed.