Ubisoft What Are You Doing?!

[Zappykins]

KingdomHeartsFan said:

There's no reason to act surprised?  After seeing the backlash that Microsoft got it should have scared third party developers straight.  I garuntee this will cut the sales of The Crew and The Division.  Especially considering how much these games cost to make now Ubisoft is taking a big gamble and I hope it doesn't pay off or other third party studios will start to follow suit, thinking that's where the money is.

Well, I think most of the hype and yelling, was just that, hype and people yelling.  Then they realized things like, World of Warcraft (PC), Halo Mulitplayer (X360) and Massive Action Game (MAG) (PS4) are already always online and it's not a huge deal. The disasters of Sim City and Diablo being the exceptions. 

I think it is also a way to combat piracy.  I know of people as kid who copied and sold PS1 or PS2 games at school.  You could get an Xbox with a chirped Hard Drive with all the games on it.  Even know, a great game like Alan Wake, is pirated more than it is purchased.  They have noticed it so they have an eyepatch on Alan in the game.  I have met to many PC Gamers who tell me how many thousands they spent on their fancy rig, then tell me how they pirate all the games for free.

While, yes, it is probably needed in some games, I think more are adding it as another way to stealthily combat piracy.   Sure it might hurt some sales, but with a drastic reduction in piracy might make the game more profitable.