Prez wrote on May 21, 2012, 20:41:
Something is wrong when every major story pertaining to a long-awaited blockbuster game are about things like DRM, server outages and account hacking. What are the odds that someone new to the series and considering buying it is going to want to subject themselves to all these potential pitfalls, especially when all of what they read about the game references exactly that?
People new to the series generally don't know what DRM or server outages are, or why they should be outraged. It's the series that defines the genre. Anecdotally speaking, I know several people who've jumped on board not knowing anything about the games (or indeed, games in general), and none from that demographic who've been dissuaded by always-online. The commercial trailers seem to weigh a lot more than the user Metacritic scores or Kotaku articles. It's the people not new to the series that they have to worry about.