A SH too far?

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Originally Posted by Stormbringer

DRM will only get worse if people buckle under to it and pay money for software with draconian DRM schemes.

If Ubisoft issued this new DRM scheme and nobody bought their new software with it enabled, the message of our dissatisfaction would be very clear. Quite frankly, everyone who bought an Ubisoft product after this DRM scheme went into affect, is part of the problem.

I'm absolutely sure that wasn't their intention, their interest was to play the various games from Ubisoft. They were willing to concede a little liberty for a little eye candy. Or perhaps they never thought of it in terms of privacy. However, the end effect is to support this DRM methodology and to send a message of positive acceptance, not only to Ubisoft, but to all other developers as well.

In essence, they've green flagged this scheme and others like it, for all developers. People might even look forward to office suites and other productivity software imposing a similar scheme in the future, simply because this test bed worked for Ubisoft.

If people had thought it over first and voted with their wallet, it would have stopped here and Ubisoft would have been forced to drop this intrusive system.

Here's the irony. If the game was still selling at full price then (based on what I'd read here) I wouldn't have bought it. Because the anti DRM crowd wrote bad review after bad review the game got marked down and the asking price became lower and lower on Amazon, until I thought it worth the risk.

In the end I bought it because of the anti DRM crowd, so thanks guys