zauii ... It's simple business logic, first-year fundamental in fact, but it bears repetition as Ubisoft and EA have forgotten it.
They want
me to buy their product so
they have to make an offer I can't resist. That kind of DRM sours any deal for me so if any publisher wants me to spend my hard-earned cash on their game they have to think hard before they install such draconic and (to me) inacceptable hurdles and treat me as potential criminal. If they think they can ... Well, my life doesn't evolve around PC gaming. I can live without buying new PC games (Il-2 works perfectly, doesn't it?) but I doubt publishers can live for long without the money many many people used to spend on their products (and now abstain because of DRM). It'll take some time for the message to find its way into the upper echelons (and I wish it would travel faster because
everyone should boycot such business policies, but then I'm such an idealist at times
) but I hope all the bean counters who place their hopes on that particular system trip and fall over so hard they need a new nose to replace the crushed old one.
I've said my part ... And now we switch back to our regular program.
06-10-2010, 12:16 PM
Threaded Mode