Yes.

Not everybody is bothered by the DRM. For those people, there's no reason why it can't be there. For everybody else, Impulse warns you before you buy just what you're getting into, and you can make that decision.

At the end of the day Impulse is just a store.

QFT

If they're upfront about it, I don't see the problem.  They shouldn't be denied income simply because Ubisoft went crazy.

To me the Ubisoft DRM solution is better than what they've had before, because it makes it more likely PC releases will get DLC (BIG problem with Ubisoft on several games) and support future OSes (a problem Ubisoft used to have anyway.)

I don't care if Impulse carries them or not, personally.  If I wanted AC2 (I already have the 360 version) I'd find somewhere to buy it.  If I was denied on Impulse I'd go somewhere else.  Stardock shouldn't turn this into a religion because they'd lose publishers and customers.

I don't see a problem with Stardock selling draconian DRM games if they are (and have been) up front about it.  The market/free enterprise system will make it clear to the publishers - ie: EA as of late.  Some companies are slow on the DRM bandwagon and even slower to wake up.

We hold the power folks - I don't buy games that require a constant internet connection and logging in, or has a limited # of installs without a revoke tool.  I don't care how AAA a title is.  Perhaps at my age peer pressure is no concern to me.  I always make sure I send an email off to the company letting them know they lost a sale as well.

 The publishers IMO think that alot of gamers have a short attention span, so concerns about down servers in the future doesn't matter.  They want you to buy the next game, not playing the old one into the next 10 years.  They start treating their products as less disposable like kleenex and making games with staying power (like Stardock published and/or developed titles), and all this "cloud" DRM stuff will go away on it's own.

Agreed.  The best way to get people to buy your product is to make your product be worth what people would pay to buy it.

It is as if Ubisoft it setting themselves up for failure so that they can said "Well we tried to the PC market but the teaming masses of souless pirates stole any incentive for us to make anymore PC games.  We are now a console exclusive publisher no more PC games". Either that or Ubi's management  is truely that stupid.

It's probably the former. With the newest Prince of Persia, they released it with no DRM whatsoever but their PR statement alongside it can be summed up as "gee, now you can pirate it, you dirty pirates", so while I was fairly happy that my beloved franchise wouldn't be killed by idiotic DRM schemes, I was afraid they were throwing it merely as an excuse to push something far worse in the future. Then AC2 came.

I know, "don't blame on malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity", but this just reeks of malice to me.

EA has done it with one game, and hasn't stated any plans to do it in the future.  I find it extremely unlikely that they will.  With Ubisoft I wouldn't be surprised to see several more games do it.

When even EAs lead people are bitching loudly and publicly about it though...

Yeah, we'll see. 

OK, person, true.  But it's still bitching.

Personally, even though I don't hate C&C4 I'm not really sure it was worth buying either at this point.  *shrug*  I'll have to give it a few more rounds.

I'd just think we'd have more warning if they were planning to take it to their entire collection.  EA is usually pretty up front about things.

I think I've ranted about Ubisoft enough for a few years.  Just thinking about them gives me a headache. 

I dont think drm cut sales on CnC 4 anyway.. Its been on Gamestops top 5 best sellers list for 3 or 4 months(unfortunately for those who bought it) .  mIts fine for impulse to have drm titles but should give a nice warning that  the game has it so we are informed.   Unfortunately for me I didnt know supcom 2 had this until too late.