Cutter wrote on May 18, 2012, 11:36:
The real question is how many games actually have that pull that they can get away with online DRM. We've already seen Ubisoft fail miserably with this. I imagine the reality may end up not quite as bad as we imagine. I do believe that we're going to see the major publishers certainly make the attempt to do this with everything else coming out...for now. However, if the response is the same as Ubisoft where they see a major decline in sales, then this scheme won't last.

There are certainly other factors involved too. We have yet to see how all this pans out for D3 in the long run - both from a sales perspective as well as a technical one. Blizzard may have sold 2 or 3 million copies for far but what does that really mean if they were expecting to sell 10 million copies. Don't kid yourself, there are still a great many pissed off people out there who didn't cave and buy the thing and they know it. Also, if the long term technical problems with lag/discos/etc, really turn people off.

I honestly don't believe that most people will want most games badly enough to put up with this sort of bullshit. I predict we'll end up with a mix where the real major titles like this, CoD, et al. have this sort of scheme but most other stuff won't. And let's not forget that if the pie-rats find a work around this could push a huge segment of people into piracy and really hurt sales.

The sky isn't falling entirely yet, and it'll be interesting to see exactly how this all pans out in the next few years. Meanwhile like PE you have to continue to fight the power.