Ubisoft DRM Targets Hardware Upgrades?

[ProwlerPC]

These companies have a habit of punishing the honest buyers while the pirates are still laughing. The largest form of a free expression we have in this regards is to simply stop purchasing from that publisher. Can't say I'm seeing any real innovations lately that justify the new release prices anyways. This internet is a revolutionary new medium but the business aspect of it refuses to modernize itself and is still locked in the past before the internet was given to the public. The way software is going and this new easy form of sharing continues to grow I predict the gaming companies being made obsolete because the public will be writing their own games and making them available bill board style via internet. The way software has been going I won't be surprised if many games of far better quality then those being dished out from the publishers will become available from your average Joe who doesn't have the greed to be a millionaire after selling just 100 000 copies of his game. This talk of high prices due to piracy argument the companies make seems empty to someone who had to pay $80 for the first Final Fantasy game that was released for Nintendo (now granted this title does stand as one of innovative markers in the gaming industry but note the price during a decade in which the dollar was worth more then it is today.) a game on a 8 bit console. The publishers have an overblown sense of value to their products, the public has been whispering this for as long as the industry existed. I say whisper because on top of complaining they still go and buy but this is more due to the fact that alternatives have been slow to rise. As game programming gets easier this will change.

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