The gawd-almighty merged DRM in Silent Hunter V thread

[Brag]

Originally Posted by HKLE

Ubi Marc obviously had enough. So he closed the relevant discussion at the UBI forum ....

I guess, UBI really gets a lot of heat for this crap. They start showing nerves ???

I lurked at the Ubi forum yesterday, the DRM bashing was in full swing. If I remember right, they had more anti DRM threads than our corralled Moo jobs

Ubi should be getting nervous. AC 2 (release 16 March) and Settlers have great opposition to DRM. Most press is against DRM. Christian Science Monitor is against. Petitions are flying everywhere. If this is a storm, we have only seen the beginning.

[tommyk]

I wonder how it feels to put so much energy into shv and see it strangled by some french managers from far far away with their dreams of the perfect DRM... I can only imagine the discussions about health-bars and such. the devs must have been excided by the game-designers suggestions... keeping the sim-parts while implementing speech-bubbles... I will instant-buy shv if I can only get rid of the always-online-drm...

[kylania]

Originally Posted by Brag

I lurked at the Ubi forum yesterday, the DRM bashing was in full swing. If I remember right, they had more anti DRM threads than our corralled Moo jobs

Ubi should be getting nervous. AC 2 (release 16 March) and Settlers have great opposition to DRM. Most press is against DRM. Christian Science Monitor is against. Petitions are flying everywhere. If this is a storm, we have only seen the beginning.

Sadly it probably won't have any impact. As someone on BluesNews pointed out, there was that huge uproar about dedicated servers for MW2 and that sold and sold and sold.

Assassin's Creed 2 will sell and sell and sell just for being AC2. Now, should UbiSoft get DDoS'd to hell and back when AC2 comes out, we might see something happen, but banking on AC2 not selling due to DRM simply won't happen I'm afraid.

[Nisgeis]

Originally Posted by kylania

Sadly it probably won't have any impact. As someone on BluesNews pointed out, there was that huge uproar about dedicated servers for MW2 and that sold and sold and sold.

Not for PC it didn't. Did the consoles need dedicated servers too?