Quote - "Ubisoft went to a cloud based save system under the guise of 'convenience', and look what we have? Draconian DRM theyre applying across all their releases. you MUST be online and logged into Ubisoft servers in order to play an Ubisoft title. if your internet connection momentarily disconnects, you get kicked back to the game menu. if their master server is down, noone who purchased the game can play it."

I certainly understand your very valid concerns about the clever means by which software &content creators will imposes draconian DRM protocols  
But I am also confident that the Clever geeks &"techies" on the user side will devise way to circumvent theses measures and enterprising alternative providers will step in and offer "Off line" alternative apps.

We who choose to live partially "off the grid" and only go online for our personal convenience, will have choices of stand alone programs& apps I believe

Cheers

right, the Ubisoft DRM has been cracked...
but what are you suggesting? that we put ourselves in the position where people who will NOT bend over for DRM have no choice but to hunt for cracks to use the content they paid for offline/untethered from the provider?

what if the provider takes the next step and doesnt actually provide an extractable archive of the product to purchasers - as has been suggested in this thread?

like i said if i buy something i want to own it. i want it on my own hard drive, to use however the hell i want, untethered from the provider. 'renting' something from a cloud has zero appeal for me - even if i did have unlimited bandwidth.

our internet rights and freedoms have been slowly eroding away under the guise of 'convenience' and 'safety' over the past decade. personally id rather give up a little 'convenience' and retain full control.