The gawd-almighty merged DRM in Silent Hunter V thread

[Bilge_Rat]

Originally Posted by guynoir

You know, the other choice here is that if we complain enough and put our money where our mouths are, Ubisoft might back off on this and de-DRM our game.... Don't think it's just Subsim, either; Assassin's Creed 2 is coming, and then you will see madness.

It's happened with Sony's rootkit DRM, Rise of Flight's online-always DRM, and plenty of others... Treat your customers like criminals and you will get push-back.

You may be right, but again the question becomes how solid can we make a boycott. If only 5% of potential players boycott the game, will Ubi notice?

If 95% boycott the game, will Ubi say its because of DRM or because there is no market for sub sims?

The way I see it, Ubi is committed to this new scheme for all their games and will implement it no matter how much we rant and rave. I think the "scheme" will work or fail on its own merits. Either it will work as advertised and we will all heave a sigh of relief or it will turn out to be more trouble than its worth and it will not be in SH6.

Look what happened with SH3. It came with Starforce, which everyone complained about and which turned out to be a major headache for Ubi. By the time SH4 came out, it just had a simple activation code.