RoF developers given offline access under pressure from customers

Nimmo55 · 02-10-10, 04:30 AM

Hi all. If you have not seen it yet, just to note that the RoF developers have announced they are giving offline access to their popular flight simulation in the upcoming patch. Of interest and significance to this debate of SH5 and DRM, they acknowledge customers have refained from buying RoF because of the requirement to be logged on the internet, have displayed for the first time the thought processes that led them to this decision (in terms of the need to listen to concerns of customers and attract more to buy it VERSUS the need to make it harder for pirates to make illegal copies...interesting insight into the thinking on this subject from a contemprary and successful publisher...and significantly, they did NOT come down on the side of making it harder for pirates if it meant putting off more trade...) and that they hoped their decision,l carefully weighed, would be successful n attracting those who have refrained from buying their simulation. In their own words: "There is no excuse now!" for trying RoF. An interesting and germain development for SH5 developers and those who care about what Ubisoft are doing re SH5 and internet connections.

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Nimmo55

02-10-10, 04:30 AM	#1
Nimmo55 A-ganger Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 71 Downloads: 41 Uploads: 0	RoF developers given offline access under pressure from customers Hi all. If you have not seen it yet, just to note that the RoF developers have announced they are giving offline access to their popular flight simulation in the upcoming patch. Of interest and significance to this debate of SH5 and DRM, they acknowledge customers have refained from buying RoF because of the requirement to be logged on the internet, have displayed for the first time the thought processes that led them to this decision (in terms of the need to listen to concerns of customers and attract more to buy it VERSUS the need to make it harder for pirates to make illegal copies...interesting insight into the thinking on this subject from a contemprary and successful publisher...and significantly, they did NOT come down on the side of making it harder for pirates if it meant putting off more trade...) and that they hoped their decision,l carefully weighed, would be successful n attracting those who have refrained from buying their simulation. In their own words: "There is no excuse now!" for trying RoF. An interesting and germain development for SH5 developers and those who care about what Ubisoft are doing re SH5 and internet connections. For your information. Nimmo55