I feel this article hits the nail on the head. The knowing people are the people who suckered themselves into it, while Ubisoft suckered in all the other people. I've known about this for a good while, and neither me or any of my console-less friends have any interest in this game merely for the DRM. Though we are relatively informed. But at least in terms of the PC community, it tends to be a relatively more informed group, just because it is smaller and a bit more specific, compared to consoles.
And as for people saying damned if you do, damned if you don't on the outcome of buying it, this isn't completely true. If enough people get around to not buying the game, there will be a huge difference in what Ubisoft says, compared to a Valve game for instance. They can decide that it was because people hate it and not develop for the platform anymore, or perhaps they will realize that it was their DRM killing their sales, and they will move to a more conventional system. Ubisoft may be a bit delusional about their DRM system, but they aren't stupid if they actually look at the numbers. The flaw is a few games have to be released to actually see any numbers.
And as for people saying damned if you do, damned if you don't on the outcome of buying it, this isn't completely true. If enough people get around to not buying the game, there will be a huge difference in what Ubisoft says, compared to a Valve game for instance. They can decide that it was because people hate it and not develop for the platform anymore, or perhaps they will realize that it was their DRM killing their sales, and they will move to a more conventional system. Ubisoft may be a bit delusional about their DRM system, but they aren't stupid if they actually look at the numbers. The flaw is a few games have to be released to actually see any numbers.