Will the DRM affect your Purchase?

[Ragtag]

Cancelled several pre-orders of Ubisoft games for PC including splinter cell. I'm not buying any game with a DRM like this. Ubisoft has crossed the line and i'm tired of being pissed on as a PC gamer by Ubi. We are the ones that's being punished and i don't like to pay for a punishment. I'm not into S&M :P

In cancelling my orders i wrote that the reason was the new DRM from ubisoft. If everyone that cancels their orders give this reason, maybe the shops will take notice and tell Ubisoft about it.

[GOZO]

Pity. My interrest plunged beyond crush depth....................

/Gozo

[jerm138]

Originally Posted by sober

The more i look into needing servers to run single player games the more i dont like it .
http://www.ea.com/2/service-updates

Wow... that's a lot of games!

When they say they're shutting down the servers, is it just the online multiplayer servers, or is it a DRM scheme like we're worried about with SH5?

In other words, are the people who own the games on that list going to be able to continue to play them without online servers, or are they just garbage now?

There are a lot of not-so-old titles on there.

We would rather our hard-working engineering and IT staff focus on keeping a positive experience for the other 99% of customers playing our more popular games.

That doesn't sound promising...

[Schultzy]

I have to admit, I haven't read all the DRM stuff, but from what I have seen and heard, I take it, it's going to be similar to the Neoqb system for Rise of Flight?
If so, then I'll be waiting til (if/when) they remove it.

[GREY WOLF 3]

Seems that all gaming companies treat their customers as second class citizens....

Star Trek Online...(release day is 2 days away but for those who pre-ordered there is a headtsart period). this is the current message when you try to get online....

We’re sorry but the game servers are full and there is a queue to start playing. Your queue position is 128 out of 729

When this message disappears you will be logged in

[It762]

That is also what i hate if you have to connect to some *** online service.... They shut it down youre screwed...

And if people would build their own service to be independent (bnetd for diablo) they are being sued so they try never again.

They long term plus for the companies is that you HAVE to buy the new version even if you dont want it

Gone are the times where you pull out your old singleplayer game to have it run in a dosbox ... today you will just get "404 - http request failed - maybe the auth server is down?" NOOOO it has been shutdown

[Robsoie]

Though at the announcement of SH5 i was a bit interested, not having bought SH3 or SH4, but now that UBi strategy is revealed, those are the kind of time i am happy to be a retro gamer, so old school subsims like SH1/AOD/Sub Command continue to give me my stealth sea hunting needs without needing absolutely modern visuals.
Because the age of drm and other kind of control from a publisher over a product you own , having bought (and not rent) with your money is morally ugly.

Punishing a legit customers with those drm while the pirates will never have to deal with such pieces of publisher control is just plain wrong whatever the publisher claim about it.

So to the original question, yes the DRM affects my purchases because i refuse to buy anything that use such process, i am not interested by paying for being constantly controlled like if i did something bad.

[Buckwarrens]

DRM
What a slap in the face, they must know how this is coming across to their
loyal customers. It does amount to a lease agreement, given the track record
of their new releases, I will wait until DRM is no longer needed.

[dogboat]

D,R,M. One way to kill off a game!!!!!!!!!!!!!! well done Ubisoft.

[longam]

Thats what they said about music DRM, but they still log on itunes and purchase.

[Letum]

Originally Posted by longam

Thats what they said about music DRM, but they still log on itunes and purchase.

To be fair, there are many forms of music DRM that died a death.

ed: internets tells me that iTunes is now DRM free as well.

[subsimlee]

Neal Stevens;1254113]Yes, that is possible. The uproar and bad word-of-mouth by a small percentage could influence a much larger population.

I hope not, though, or Silent Hunter is dead

Respectfully Neal,
You're saying that if we as a small percentage could influence a much larger Ubi gaming population over the DRM uproar, Silent Hunter might be dead. That would also mean that all Ubi's future DRM contolled games would be in jeopardy: therefore it might be reasonable to expect the DRM is more at risk of death IMHO. ( DRM-R.I.P. )

[Schultz]

Let me say that, people in this days preffer the pirate version because they don't need to use money because it's free, if the games are a little cheaper maybe there is a chance that more people will buy games, usually I buy games to suport the gaming industry, but I can't buy them all.

[melendir]

I hate the idea of must be connected to be able to play SH5
I hope it would need only one online activation.

Otherwise we are not able to play where we want. when we want.
And someday in the future when there is no such thing as Ubisoft we are not able to play our bought game at all.

Sucks!

[Schultz]

Ubi said that if you have 100 Pc's you can install sh5 on all of them , and also you can enter with your account from what PC you like,this sistem is allmost like at Gta4