I have been guilty of this too, but usually i try not to post my usual diatribes (
) in threads with a different topic.
That being said, it's an important issue for many people. For some it's as important as things like the flight model, because a not so user friendly DRM might prevent them from enjoying said flight model, etc.
Long story short, if it stays in one thread i'm perfectly fine with it and i think it should be allowed to continue. It might have nothing to do with the actual game, but it might prevent you from running it if the implementation is bad. Then it suddenly goes from having nothing to do with the game to having everything to do with the game. Also, the argument could swing both ways and some would say "why do i have to put up with said software when it has nothing to do with the game and it gets cracked anyway everytime? just use a cd-check and be done with it".
I'm not saying it will happen like this, in fact most indications point to a one-off online activation which (lacking any other info at this point) is more or less a good compromise, plus i trust that after dealing with a big publisher for many years mr Maddox might have signed a "smart" contract that gives him certain liberties with his final product, relegating Ubi to the role of distributor and not the owner of the title's rights .
So what's all the fuss about you will naturally ask. Well, it's just that many people are distrustful towards ubi after the silent hunter fiasco and honestly, who can blame them?
No matter what happens, this issue will crop up time and again and it will be discussed until we know what is actually going to happen.
Best compromise in my humble opinion is to have a dedicated DRM thread to discuss this until we get some more concrete information from the publisher.
This way, instead of picking fights in other threads and derailing them, whenever someone mentions DRM we can link him the dedicated thread and contain the discussion there. Oh, and if you find it boring that also gives you the option not to read it while the rest of us are debating it. Pretty good solution all around, don't you think?
P.S. Maybe we can use this thread:
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...m+unacceptable