Will the DRM affect your Purchase?

[Cavell]

Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

but why can't there be a balance?

why the "scorched earth" policy?

why does anyone who posts something positive about SH5 have to be immediately hit by a 2x4?

In six months, Ubi will have moved on to another project and will have completely forgotten about SH5, but we will still all be here.

This isn't the Jets and the Sharks. People who like the game aren't being run out of town by an angry mob. The issue isn't with folks like yourself who enjoy the game, and I honestly haven't seen anyone make the argument that it is.

Edit: I immediately have to take that back, of course, in light of the post that got in before mine, but still..."logic is not the strong suit of the anti DRM crowd" isn't exactly conciliatory, either. After all, it's far more logical to expect to get a result on the DRM issue by withholding cash from Ubisoft, rather than giving it to them and hoping they listen as they laugh their way to the bank in preparation for that new project in six months that will cause them to forget about SH5.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

but logic is not the strong suit of the anti-DRM crowd...

Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

why does anyone who posts something positive about SH5 have to be immediately hit by a 2x4?

You're joking, right?

If not, then I'll say the same thing I said to Trenken, and the same thing I said to MattDizzle.

It's perfectly okay to be for something, and it's perfectly okay to be against something. This thread was started well over a month before the game was released, with a simple question. Some opinions were stronger than others, but that's always to be expected. The only two(?) people to start pro-DRM threads immediately called any and all anti-DRM posters "whiners" and "crybabies". Then they both(?) retreated into the stance that they were being attacked for simply stating an opinion of the game.

I fully disagree with the the children who slam those who bought the game as "suckers" or "supporting the evil". Yes, I know I seem to have done just that a couple of posts up, but my quibble was with giving them the money and then claiming to refuse to support it after the fact by not playing it, not with the actual purchase itself. I'll joke with those who said they wouldn't but then did anyway, but I won't demean them. We are all free to choose for ourselves.

And it's the same here. Not very many are attacking those who "say something positive". In fact you won't find any of that in the threads about the actual gameplay. But when you come to the thread by and for people who are determined to oppose what we see as an oppressive measure by a corporation against its best customers and belittle us with "but logic is not the strong suit of the anti-DRM crowd", you can't turn around and complain that you've been hit with a 2x4 for "saying something positive about SH5".