Are We Cattle?

[Vanagen]

Okay, we get it, you don't like DRM.

No one likes DRM, not even the developers. Not even the publishers. It costs lots of money, it's a pain to implement and it's marginally effective at best.

But it's a necessary evil.

Even if it doesn't make a lick of difference in the grand scheme of piracy, it's just unthinkable for a triple-A game from a major developer to ship without any kind of copy protection.



Why DRM?

Because of the one group of people Ubisoft cares more about than its customers.

The people who own these:

http://www.google.com/finance?q=EPA%3AUBI

Originally Posted by Brag

Businesses are created to satisfy needs

No, businesses are created to generate profit.

Satisfying customers is only a means to an end.

To satisfy shareholders.



For extra e-pedant points, allow me to directly quote Wikipedia:

A business (also called a company, enterprise or firm) is a legally recognized organization designed to provide goods and/or services to consumers.[1] Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, most being privately owned and formed to earn profit that will increase the wealth of its owners and grow the business itself.

[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business ] - Wikipedia



Be thankful that it isn't StarForceLargeUncomfortableObjectsUpYourPooper DRM that breaks random hardware on your PC, but an online play system, which will be common practise in ALL games a few years from now and is already used in every single MMO imaginable since bloody Ultima Online (and earlier).

As for people who don't have stable 24/7 broadband? It bloody well sucks. It really does. I feel for them. Honest. I sincerely hope that their local telecom company smartens up and builds the infrastructure required or that they move to a place where they can indeed get an internet connection.

Still, yeah, it sucks; there's no other words for it.



You know what sucks even more?

Haiti.



Now can we please, please focus on the quality of the actual game?

DRM issues will eventually be resolved.

A fundamentally flawed game is what worries me most. That is something all the modding in the world won't be able to solve.



When all is said and done, nothing stops you from buying a legit copy to support the developers and playing with a cracked version.

It isn't like most of us don't play our games with a NoCD patch, including SH3.