Public statement against DRM (yet not SH5)

[martes86]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Sorry, but making something official doesn't mean jack ****. Especially when it comes from someone (and I mean communities in general, not the 24th) that doesn't have the power to change anything or in other words put pressure to a company like Ubi.

As long as Ubi has paying customers from it's bigger selling titles, the subsim community very little to say about how Ubi runs things. We are "expendable".

I'd like to think that things are a little brighter than that. They may not care about individuals, but whole nodes of players, communities, complaining all at once against this, it must have some effect, some repercussions, how could it be possible that a whole group of people positioned against it, and nothing happens?

Even better... do you really think that if Subsim officially positioned against DRM (and as an extention, the whole community or most of it), that it wouldn't make any difference? The thing of good-press/bad-press doesn't matter anything these days? Just getting money does? I doubt it in this case (maybe true in others with a little less media attention). Sadly, Subsim is far from doing that (I understand that Subsim has a stand to keep), so I guess we'll never know.

Originally Posted by Nordmann

We might have been able to do something about it, if people could only have restrained themselves from buying the damned game. But no, for all the complaints, they go like lambs to the slaughter.

Ubi must be having a good laugh at our expense (well, your expense, I didn't buy it), because they know that they can release a half finished product, with ridiculous restrictions, and their loyal fans will go right ahead and buy it regardless.

Well, there's other ways to show disagreement... plain boycott isn't the only way to do things (I find it too extreme a measure), and it might actually be the killing shot to future subsim developments. And, anyways, it seems like refunds are up to date these days, so maybe income is much lower than initially expected.

Cheers