I think many people are seeing this leak as the reason that ubisoft uses rediculous DRM, but the truth is, with or without this leak UBI is going to implement rediculous DRM, same with any other large company on the market. (EA and Spore anyone?) The problem with these large gaming conglomorates is that they are there to make money and only make money. I understand they ahve shareholders and what not, but seriously, they lost more moeny driving people away with rediculous DRM than they lose to people pirating. Mostly because those that refuse to pay for DRM with a side of game go and pirate it anyway.
They want to believe that people who want their games are willing to wade through an ocean of shit to play their game. When most people see pirating as the easier and admittedly more cost effective alternative. Hell, most of the time it's easier.
Big companies are going to do whatever it takes to guard the money they want to make and they see peope pirating the game and instantly think they are losing money with each download. Even though the reality is that they wouldn't have gained money in the first place.
While smaller sutdios want people to buy their game, but can't afford to make DRM either as a cost to them or in the cost of driving customer away. I am way mroe willing to support smaller companies who don't use oppressive amount of DRM.
All in all I don't believe DRM is necessarily bad, people have the right to protect their property, but what ubisoft is doing is rediculous. Especially since the cracked version works better and 100% of the time on or oflline.
