Ubisoft won't succeed. Though I wish that all companies could stop piracy for at least 2 year. I can guarantee that there would be no sky rocketing sales due to stopped piracy. It will be a humbling experience.
Best way if your going to charge for a game, but nifty authentic gimmicks in the game boxes. Cloth maps, cheap necklaces, small miniature of Kratos..... and don't increase the costs.
The other way and I suspect will slowly be more common is the free 2 play, but pay for extra model. This won't apply to all games, but will likely apply to highly replayable games; like FPS, MMO and other multiplayer action type games.
Sorta like Battlefield Heroes. Though I suspect that this model will take some time to get use to because it's so culturly different and there have been plenty of free 2 play games that have royaly sucked.
Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.
