Will the DRM affect your Purchase? - Page 37

tonschk · 03-06-10, 07:12 PM

Already installed

Silent Hunter 5 game ,

SH5 is AMAZING

, Really Beautyful SH5 game , I am thinking now is time to delete/uninstall Silent Hunter 4 ( SH4 = too many many bugs ) , I will keep Silent Hunter 3 + GWX3 because GWX added many very realistic details to the game , I am 100% sure that Silent Hunter 5 plus GWX5

will become the most Fantastic Master piece of the Silent Hunter series

NefariousKoel · 03-07-10, 04:46 AM

I haven't visited here in awhile and the SH5 release caught me a bit by surprise.

Even more surprising was the DRM. Unfortunately, it will be off my list until I can pay for a game I fully own.

salac_78 · 03-07-10, 05:33 AM

So This Is How Liberty Dies...With Thunderous Applause

GerritJ9 · 03-07-10, 03:42 PM

Last Thursday I entered a store that had two copies of SH5 in stock, picked up one, went to the counter and asked the guy behind it what the little message on the box about "constant internet connection required" meant. After he had explained, I told him "No sale, I won't accept such a system" and left the store. I didn't intend to buy it anyway, but hopefully the message will be passed on i.e. that a possible sale was lost thanks to that idiocy. I still haven't forgiven UBI for their IL2 4.05m + Boonty Box datamining fiasco so I will never buy any of their stuff with such a lunatic requirement (nor anybody else's for that matter), even if they do remove it later on- which I very much doubt.

tonyeh · 03-08-10, 02:25 AM

No sale here either.

peterloo · 03-08-10, 06:35 AM

I haven't visited here for a while, and I am surprised how "fast" the development team worked.

Rather than spending time developing such draconian systems and compell possible buyers to download cracks and workarounds, why can't Ubisoft spend more time to complete the game and fix all sorts of bugs?

Don't give excuses like bring the career to climax (May 43) and then end it is the best treatment to it available. We have played and enjoyed ourselves in the late war scenarios also.

Or you may spend the time to work on new features. AI torpedoes? Enemy submarines? Rockets? Fidoes? realistic hunter killer task forces? Huff-Duff positioning system? I would be happy if you got all these, something that brings more realism to the game.

If Ubi don't drop this system in a patch, and make all the features available for offline playing, i don't see any reason to purchase the game.

quietguy52 · 03-08-10, 09:23 AM

I won't spend money on this...

Spartan · 03-08-10, 10:34 AM

I stopped playing SH because of Ubi and its DRM policy. I passed on four and it looks like I'll pass on five.

I'm glad to see the new system has blown up on it! I hope Ubi gets out of the PC game business and gives SH to a company that respects its customers.

Drednots · 03-08-10, 10:49 AM

I caved and bought it out of curiosity.

At first I was quite annoyed with new UI and controls but getting used it and enjoying it so far. I consider it an incomplete game with huge potential. Am I sorry I bought it? No, only because I am optimistic about the "potential". I am not going to tell anyone it is polished enough to buy that is for each to judge on their own. If the devs continue to patch more content in and support the game along with modders then we have something worth waiting for - for those that are waiting...

thyro · 03-08-10, 10:55 AM

Well another long time Subsim fan with a big

at SH5 and that ONLINE a MUST IDIOCRACY.

I'll keep on SH3 and SH4 because are good anyway.

I'm sorry but don't want my laptop always connect to internet in order to play a game. For me is simple... I prefer not to play rather than waste my money in a half backed product that requires such connection dependency.

I'm all for anti-piracy but UBI has done a step too far and alianeted me and most possible other players that feel the same. Forcing such idiocracy rules on mass customers just to combat the few minority deem as pirates.

my big NO UBI PURCHASE

to SH5 or any other game under these forced terms.

Have online checkings from times to times but not as requirement to play a game, and even if the connectivity is lost the game quits in the next saved game (or even I might be wrong here) so its a no go since my internent is prone to disconnects just one more reason not to buy such game.

Thyro

maxplay · 03-21-10, 07:09 PM

I feel sorry for you who don't buy this game. It is a shame that you are getting out of a good line of games. i have this game and a O.K. then bad then worse net but the DSM has not stoped me yet!(only problem i have is lagging.) by all means better then SH3(missed Sh4 but hear it was bad)
Its like how they put laws on guns, so criminals dont(or less likely to) abouse it.
NOTE:IT CAN BE BETTER BY MAKING AN OFFLINE ABITLEY TO IT LIKE COMPANY OF HEROES(WHEN OFFLINE YOU NEED YOUR DISK TO LOG ON TO YOUR ACOUNT)
SO OFFLINE CAN HAPPEN!!!(I have not heard of prirets for this game, but i have not gone looking. but all and all good game if i could go back in time i would still buy it like lot of "CRAP" games i have(DSM=work in progress)

Vipper · 03-21-10, 08:29 PM

Absolutely it does affect! I want own a thing i do buy, that's first. And second is that i share my connection and quiet often it is unstable and slow.

And third is that i want play it when internet connection drops and i'm bored or i don't have internet at all by some reasons.

And Think! Its now 10 years in future and you have a game you cannot never play cause ubi does not support it anymore and servers are history. LOL, a temporary game that it is destined to become a brick...

I hope not!

----

At this moment this game is raw cake anyway...

Spartan · 03-21-10, 09:37 PM

I truly hope Ubi sells the SH rights to another company.

Shoot I keep waiting for Neal to venture into the subsim making business.

Members of the community could kick in for dev costs as share holders. When finished, Stardock, Paradox, Steam and two others (names elude me right now) could distribute the title.

We surely have the experts here and contacts with dev studios. Heck he could even use the Romanian one that worked on the franchise already if the engine could be licensed or maybe get the rights directly from Ubi for usage of the name and existing property. I would think Neal has 5013c status already - food for thought...

maxplay · 03-22-10, 03:07 PM

If they sell out it will come to a total different game that you will not know. Why? different makers with different views look at call of duty that is split and it is now two games on one title! W@W has little the same with MW2. if they sell out it might become a online 2+ player only game. will you be happy then. Or like other TOTAL CRAP subsim games.

if they get an offline mod it will work. they gust need to see that the easy way or the hard way.(so far the hard way but if people say GET AN OFFLINE MOD they might update the sever. the game is still in the first year of sales, let them see that it dose not work and they will fix it or die!

quietguy52 · 03-22-10, 03:13 PM

I wonder if UBI is perusing this thread? If so, hope they're making note of all the complaints!

View Poll Results: Will the new DRM affect your SH5 purchase
"Makes no difference to me"	191	15.44%
I'll cancel my pre-order & wait	148	11.96%
Wait for UBI to remove the online DRM	761	61.52%
Not going to at all now.	137	11.08%
Voters: 1237. You may not vote on this poll

03-06-10, 07:12 PM	#541
tonschk Admiral Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,200 Downloads: 172 Uploads: 0	Already installed Silent Hunter 5 game , SH5 is AMAZING , Really Beautyful SH5 game , I am thinking now is time to delete/uninstall Silent Hunter 4 ( SH4 = too many many bugs ) , I will keep Silent Hunter 3 + GWX3 because GWX added many very realistic details to the game , I am 100% sure that Silent Hunter 5 plus GWX5 will become the most Fantastic Master piece of the Silent Hunter series __________________ What we do in life echoes in Eternity

03-07-10, 04:46 AM	#542
NefariousKoel Ace of the Deep Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: No-good Missouri scum Posts: 1,223 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	I haven't visited here in awhile and the SH5 release caught me a bit by surprise. Even more surprising was the DRM. Unfortunately, it will be off my list until I can pay for a game I fully own. __________________ "When Gary told me he had found Jesus, I thought, Yahoo! We're rich! But it turned out to be something different." - Jack Handey

03-07-10, 05:33 AM	#543
salac_78 Seaman Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 38 Downloads: 106 Uploads: 0	About copyright So This Is How Liberty Dies...With Thunderous Applause Last edited by salac_78; 03-07-10 at 08:52 AM.

03-07-10, 03:42 PM	#544
GerritJ9 Sonar Guy Join Date: May 2007 Location: Netherlands Posts: 389 Downloads: 47 Uploads: 6	Last Thursday I entered a store that had two copies of SH5 in stock, picked up one, went to the counter and asked the guy behind it what the little message on the box about "constant internet connection required" meant. After he had explained, I told him "No sale, I won't accept such a system" and left the store. I didn't intend to buy it anyway, but hopefully the message will be passed on i.e. that a possible sale was lost thanks to that idiocy. I still haven't forgiven UBI for their IL2 4.05m + Boonty Box datamining fiasco so I will never buy any of their stuff with such a lunatic requirement (nor anybody else's for that matter), even if they do remove it later on- which I very much doubt. __________________ Quamvis Patiens Acris My SH3/SH4 mods: http://www.gamefront.com/files/user/GerritJ9

03-08-10, 02:25 AM	#545
tonyeh Bosun Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Ireland Posts: 65 Downloads: 28 Uploads: 0	No sale here either.

03-08-10, 06:35 AM	#546
peterloo Commander Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 462 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	I haven't visited here for a while, and I am surprised how "fast" the development team worked. Rather than spending time developing such draconian systems and compell possible buyers to download cracks and workarounds, why can't Ubisoft spend more time to complete the game and fix all sorts of bugs? Don't give excuses like bring the career to climax (May 43) and then end it is the best treatment to it available. We have played and enjoyed ourselves in the late war scenarios also. Or you may spend the time to work on new features. AI torpedoes? Enemy submarines? Rockets? Fidoes? realistic hunter killer task forces? Huff-Duff positioning system? I would be happy if you got all these, something that brings more realism to the game. If Ubi don't drop this system in a patch, and make all the features available for offline playing, i don't see any reason to purchase the game. __________________ Romeo is here, but where is Juliet? The 中国水兵 (Chinese Sailor) in subsim

03-08-10, 09:23 AM	#547
quietguy52 Sailor man Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 46 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Poll is closed. I won't spend money on this... __________________ Lennie... "Get busy living or get busy dying..."

03-08-10, 10:34 AM	#548
Spartan Sailor man Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Tokyo, Japan Posts: 50 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I stopped playing SH because of Ubi and its DRM policy. I passed on four and it looks like I'll pass on five. I'm glad to see the new system has blown up on it! I hope Ubi gets out of the PC game business and gives SH to a company that respects its customers. Last edited by Spartan; 03-08-10 at 01:34 PM.

03-08-10, 10:49 AM	#549
Drednots Swabbie Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 7 Downloads: 64 Uploads: 0	I caved and bought it out of curiosity. At first I was quite annoyed with new UI and controls but getting used it and enjoying it so far. I consider it an incomplete game with huge potential. Am I sorry I bought it? No, only because I am optimistic about the "potential". I am not going to tell anyone it is polished enough to buy that is for each to judge on their own. If the devs continue to patch more content in and support the game along with modders then we have something worth waiting for - for those that are waiting...

03-08-10, 10:55 AM	#550
thyro Commander Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: on a rock surrounded by water, that people call it UK Posts: 473 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	Well another long time Subsim fan with a big at SH5 and that ONLINE a MUST IDIOCRACY. I'll keep on SH3 and SH4 because are good anyway. I'm sorry but don't want my laptop always connect to internet in order to play a game. For me is simple... I prefer not to play rather than waste my money in a half backed product that requires such connection dependency. I'm all for anti-piracy but UBI has done a step too far and alianeted me and most possible other players that feel the same. Forcing such idiocracy rules on mass customers just to combat the few minority deem as pirates. my big NO UBI PURCHASE to SH5 or any other game under these forced terms. Have online checkings from times to times but not as requirement to play a game, and even if the connectivity is lost the game quits in the next saved game (or even I might be wrong here) so its a no go since my internent is prone to disconnects just one more reason not to buy such game. Thyro __________________ "The good news is that you’re never, ever more than 6 miles from land. The bad news is, the land is straight down!"

03-21-10, 07:09 PM	#551
maxplay Swabbie Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 5 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	I feel sorry for you who don't buy this game. It is a shame that you are getting out of a good line of games. i have this game and a O.K. then bad then worse net but the DSM has not stoped me yet!(only problem i have is lagging.) by all means better then SH3(missed Sh4 but hear it was bad) Its like how they put laws on guns, so criminals dont(or less likely to) abouse it. NOTE:IT CAN BE BETTER BY MAKING AN OFFLINE ABITLEY TO IT LIKE COMPANY OF HEROES(WHEN OFFLINE YOU NEED YOUR DISK TO LOG ON TO YOUR ACOUNT) SO OFFLINE CAN HAPPEN!!!(I have not heard of prirets for this game, but i have not gone looking. but all and all good game if i could go back in time i would still buy it like lot of "CRAP" games i have(DSM=work in progress) Last edited by maxplay; 03-21-10 at 07:38 PM.

03-21-10, 08:29 PM	#552
Vipper Machinist's Mate Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 122 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Absolutely it does affect! I want own a thing i do buy, that's first. And second is that i share my connection and quiet often it is unstable and slow. And third is that i want play it when internet connection drops and i'm bored or i don't have internet at all by some reasons. And Think! Its now 10 years in future and you have a game you cannot never play cause ubi does not support it anymore and servers are history. LOL, a temporary game that it is destined to become a brick... I hope not! ---- At this moment this game is raw cake anyway...

03-21-10, 09:37 PM	#553
Spartan Sailor man Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Tokyo, Japan Posts: 50 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I truly hope Ubi sells the SH rights to another company. Shoot I keep waiting for Neal to venture into the subsim making business. Members of the community could kick in for dev costs as share holders. When finished, Stardock, Paradox, Steam and two others (names elude me right now) could distribute the title. We surely have the experts here and contacts with dev studios. Heck he could even use the Romanian one that worked on the franchise already if the engine could be licensed or maybe get the rights directly from Ubi for usage of the name and existing property. I would think Neal has 5013c status already - food for thought...

03-22-10, 03:07 PM	#554
maxplay Swabbie Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 5 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	If they sell out it will come to a total different game that you will not know. Why? different makers with different views look at call of duty that is split and it is now two games on one title! W@W has little the same with MW2. if they sell out it might become a online 2+ player only game. will you be happy then. Or like other TOTAL CRAP subsim games. if they get an offline mod it will work. they gust need to see that the easy way or the hard way.(so far the hard way but if people say GET AN OFFLINE MOD they might update the sever. the game is still in the first year of sales, let them see that it dose not work and they will fix it or die!

03-22-10, 03:13 PM	#555
quietguy52 Sailor man Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 46 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	UBI I wonder if UBI is perusing this thread? If so, hope they're making note of all the complaints! __________________ Lennie... "Get busy living or get busy dying..."