Ubisoft Blames DRM Outage on "Server Attack"

[Gildan Bladeborn]

Guh, to all of you saying, "All this DRM is crap, it hurts the consumer, so I'm going to pirate their games to spite them", (Notice that's in bold) you do realise that that's merely going to encourage them to continue DRM? Buy the game legally, it means that developers won't be so scared of pirating.

Or better yet, don't do that! In fact, don't buy anything from Ubisoft at all, and certainly don't pirate anything either. Instead, do your level best to make sure as many people as you possibly can inform are made aware of just how incandescently furious you are with Ubisoft and why they should be too.

I don't know about you, but I will be doing my level best to ruin Ubisoft using the modest means available to me, until such time as they see reason or I pass off this mortal coil - it's the only response that can't possibly be 'misinterpreted'.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Guh, to all of you saying, "All this DRM is crap, it hurts the consumer, so I'm going to pirate their games to spite them", (Notice that's in bold) you do realise that that's merely going to encourage them to continue DRM? Buy the game legally, it means that developers won't be so scared of pirating.

I do nothing with games involving invasive DRM. I don't buy them, I don't download them.
That been said, buying the game legally will not fix anything. All future games will have horrid DRM in them whether few people pirate it or not.

Even if everyone bought it legally (imagine a parallel universe where this happens) they would still keep the DRM out of paranoia, or better still, potentially for marketing purposes.

Though it's certain that we've reached well past the point of no return for the PC gaming industry. It's in a downward spiral of madness now.