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Originally Posted by Yak

There is only one metric for acceptance of something like this system to Ubi and that is sales, no amount of harshly worded letters or e-mails will make one iota of difference.

Then what good will posting about the faults of DRM on an internet discussion board do? You're right about harshly worded emails won't make a difference. A constructive email explaining why you aren't buying their products would be much better. Or, if people want to organise, then why not organise something they would notice, as has been tried in the past with other products. Why not arrange for those who don't like the DRM to send a lemon in the post to Ubisoft. If they get enough lemons, they'll get the message. A pile of lemons is harder to ignore than emails that hardly anyone is writing.

Not buying the game is not an action that will have any effect on the behaviour of Ubi and is in no way a 'vote'. If it were a vote, then you could simply not buy the game again. Perhaps not buying it a third time would send an even louder message to Ubisoft?

Originally Posted by Stormbringer

People who buy the new Ubisoft titles are part of the problem (the problem being defined here as the draconian DRM) because it promotes the company's DRM.

However, no matter what kind of boycott is in the general mindset, some people are going to buy these games. I wish it were a 100% boycott, but expecting that is unrealistic.

Rather than alienating some of the people who have bought the game, by telling them it's their fault, why not ask for their help and support in complaining to Ubisoft? Isn't that a better way to go about it? Some people have a genuine desire to have the DRM removed and some people are not interested in solving the problem and just want to rant about it in a way that will have no positive effect at all.

The people who have bought the game and do not like the DRM could write in / send lemons / rate the game or anything else you can think of. So, let's see some organisation here. I'd like to see at least one genuine effort to do something about it come out of all this complaining, if people are serious about getting the DRM removed.

Originally Posted by 609_Avatar

Well I didn't buy it, DRM being the only reason, and I also emailed UBI. I found a marketing person's address on the main corporate site. Can't look for it as I'm not on the computer I mailed it to. Don't know whether it was read, much less make any difference at all, as I never received the courtesy of a reply but I thought it worth the effort.

If they do eventually drop it I will buy it in a heart beat.

Well done for sending that email. There's only one way to tell a company what you think and that's to tell them what you think. Sending smoke signals, or disembowling chickens, posting on a forum they don't read or 'voting' with your wallet are probably not going to get through quite as well as a simple polite statement. Or a lemon .