You know what, I was thinking about this topic the other day, and I found some surprising sympathy for a small group of people at Ubisoft: the people who made the game (developers, graphic artists, character designers, combat technicians, voice actors, etc).
I mean, here they have produced a pretty damn good game, and now it's being villified everywhere on the web (which the DRM does deserve). At Amazon, the PC version is being rated a 1 almost entirely across the board, several reviews have dinged it for the DRM, and many sites and forums are lowering the HateHammer on it, all because of the pinheads who decided that DRM actually works. (snart)
Granted, the console versions will be received better, but even some of those won't sell due to Ubisoft's idiocy in persisting in a DRM that - literally - penalizes the end users without attention to the legality of their possession of the game.
I don't think it will hurt them in their career or anything, but I just wanted to spare a moment of empathy for the ones who worked so hard on something that is quickly progressing from famous to infamous (you know, because it's more than famous.)
/you may now return to your Ubisoft bashing.
