How did the OSP(-DRM) service influence your opinion on Silent Hunter V?

janh · 04-05-10, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

Do we really need yet another poll to determine the public perception of DRM?

The previous polls tested "DRM", but if you read my description above, this one gauges something else: How DRM "skews" the perception of the original product to be sold. It does not question whether you like or dislike DRM etc. That is entirely different.

I am testing a hypothesis here: Over the past weeks I got the impression that despite the shortcomings and bugs of SHV, it would have been received at least as well as SHIV or SHIII, maybe even better, but only for the DRM on top of that most people really saw it as a much worse product. I know this would be only a tiny comfort to the developers, but if true it would indicate that this kind of "OSP" customer binding does cause significant damage to reputation, rating and sales. Many people do not support it, but may accept it as an unavoidable thing, but for those who would like to see Ubisoft change it policy, this could produce at least a result significant for this community of subsim fans. And maybe this would even be representative of a general customer basis.

View Poll Results: How does the OSP (-DRM) service affect the way you rate SHV?
+3: it is really the thing that makes SHV look awesome and helps over any issues of the game!	0	0%
+2: it added a lot of value to SHV and lets me forget about minor issues of the game.	0	0%
+1: it is a small bonus to SHV	0	0%
0: no influence, I just rate it by its quality	22	14.19%
-1: it's a small hassle, but not a big inconvenience	31	20.00%
-2: it's a big hassle, and makes me look at any issues of the game even more critical	28	18.06%
-3: it's the final "torpedo" to sink the game; with it, even the minor issues look pretty bad	74	47.74%
Voters: 155. You may not vote on this poll