What's next?

[Onkel Neal]

Well, what a month it's been for Silent Hunter V news. A limited selection of ONE U-boat, a limited time in the war, and limited to playing while connected (be honest, which we all are 99% of the time :O:).

What's next? I wonder if Ubi has any more pleasant surprises for us?? Maybe Germany wins the war? Maybe a cameo by Churchill as the cook? :hmmm:

[SteamWake]

Wow Neal even you are starting to sound a little negative now. :oops:

[longam]

As long as the server doesn't crash on a Friday night at the start of the weekend we should be good to go. :wah:

[Arclight]

What's next? Customers paying to keep their servers online, a feature they forced on them in the first place. :nope:

[GoldenRivet]

What's next? Customers paying to keep their servers online, a feature they forced on them in the first place. :nope:

yep

$5 per month surcharge for server use.:down:

so, a $60 game, over the course of 3 years play, translates to... $240

nice.:doh:

[Carotio]

What's next?
Next, you will have to purchase a USB3.0 credit card reader, so you can pay immidiately for your subscription to the Ubisoft servers....:doh:

[AVGWarhawk]

I suspect add-ons. It is something that has happened for years. Seems to be catching up to UBI perhaps. Buy a sub, buy a theater. Snorkels for sale in six months. :03: Come on, think the uboat struggle ends in 43? Just started and a large part of the simulation.

[nikbear]

Whats Next? Reinstalling SH3/GWX Thats whats next!
Ive staved off changing my system to Windows7 till SH5 was released but now.....Im not going to bother,what with all the bad news being released about it the closer we get to the March release date,Im personally gutted:cry::wah::nope::damn:

[flakmonkey]

Paying for ingame assets i guess...

20000 reichsmarks per torpedo, wheres my credit card.......

[codmander]

Wow :yeah: glad to see you question sh5 somewhat Neil guess that boycott post waS over the top :) but what the heck everytime man ,,get excited than poof bad news sick of that HEY UBI just give us a great sim period you started one with sh3 now finish it

[Hitman]

That's very easy:

next is me rediscovering my old and abandoned weekend hobbies like motorcycle riding (And mantaining, 2 strokes are a b*tc you know ), hill climbing, adn sailing. Looks like I will have again plenty of my spare time in the near future, so thanks UBI for giving me a reason to drop my cholesterol again to reasonable levels. :haha:

[COWBOY10]

For Console Only.

Fight tha Battle of the Atlantic from the comfort of your own Sofa :88)



God I hope we dont have anymore surprises, I'm that fed up, I think I want to kill myself, Thankgod Im too depressed to bother. :)

Or maybe, Just maybe, UBI are watching us, and notice the error of their ways, and change the bad choices made upto now. :har:

[Iron Budokan]

Baseball season is coming up. Playing catch with my kids, that's what is next.

I can live quite happily without SH5 given that choice. :yeah:

[Carotio]

That's very easy:

next is me rediscovering my old and abandoned weekend hobbies like motorcycle riding (And mantaining, 2 strokes are a b*tc you know ), hill climbing, adn sailing. Looks like I will have again plenty of my spare time in the near future, so thanks UBI for giving me a reason to drop my cholesterol again to reasonable levels. :haha:

That reminds me of my other hobby: photography. I just had a visit of a lovely Rumanian girl last weekend, shooting some nice photos of her. I guess I will be doing this more often then... Thank you Ubisoft :haha:

[Letum]

What's next?
Don't worry; the future is bright:

Dangerdeep, Subwolves, the restart of GWX4, 1C making a new subsim,
Subsim.com commissioning the first VIIC build since the '40s. :yeah:

[Kapitanleutnant]

Is subwolves still in active development? I've been browsing the website and it seems really interesting.

[ParaB]

What's next? Easy. Pay to play. The idea of tying a singleplayer, offline game to some kind of online account is just the 1st step into this account becoming a "service" for which you have to pay, sooner or later. And of course you won't be able to sell your games anymore, either.

This is no surprise though, the big publishers have made statements in that direction for quite some time.

[oscar19681]

Wow Neal even you are starting to sound a little negative now. :oops:

Yes he does! Now that is starting to scare me when even uncle neal is starting to talk like this! Please stop scaring me or i will dive to 250 meters!

[GoldenRivet]

Yes he does! Now that is starting to scare me when even uncle neal is starting to talk like this! Please stop scaring me or i will dive to 250 meters!

The SH5 boats automatically implode when you hit 165 meters

[Lanzfeld]

The SH5 boats automatically implode when you hit 165 meters

Nawww...they EXPLODE with lots of fire.

[MaciejK]

No. The energy bar starts to go down slowly. Once you're back above 165 it recovers.

[mookiemookie]

What's next? I wonder if Ubi has any more pleasant surprises for us??

I hope not. It's already depressing enough around here what with all the ranting and raving.

[oscar19681]

The SH5 boats automatically implode when you hit 165 meters

Really? If i dont get caught by a giant squid before reaching 165 meters , i wont buy the game!

[sk065]

I must be part of that 1% then....

[GoldenRivet]

No. The energy bar starts to go down slowly. Once you're back above 165 it recovers.

it only recovers when you find the floating barrel health kits for your sub.

[AVGWarhawk]

it only recovers when you find the floating barrel health kits for your sub.


:har:

Cool. A different type of milchcow!

[Letum]

Is subwolves still in active development? I've been browsing the website and it seems really interesting.


You bet it is!
I would give you a few screenshots, but I don't know if that would be OK
with the boss.
I'm putting lots of my spare time into it and So is the lead programmer
Peter, even tho he is busy with his professional legal work.

[danurve]

What's next?

We're all feeling a bit let down now. What a kick in the nads. This latest round of news is like - finding out the girl of your dreams - used to be a man or some jazz.

Hitman has one of the best ideas yet. Step away from the computer. Go camping, fishing, build or fix something - not another computer.

[danlisa]

It makes little difference but with the introduction of the unimaginative DRM, UBI just lost a sale. Perhaps if it's patched out I'll reconsider, SH5 has too much working against it at the moment for me.

Shame:cry:

[GoldenRivet]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCAG1ilw_sM

footage from SHV "sneaking into Skapa Flow"

[SteamWake]

is like - finding out the girl of your dreams - used to be a man

:o

Exactly how I felt ! :haha:

[urfisch]

cant believe it...negative sounds from the grandfather of subsim community...this is frightening. same as the facts do to me...

but...guys. face the reality. ubi tries to reach the great masses with some kind of "interactive movie play". sit and relax on your sofa, while shootin at some ships. thats fun for the whole familiy.

nice.

but nothing for us. which is not wondering me any more. but i cant get over the cheekieness, some developers have, to make us hope, in getting a good subsim.

there must be a great amount of surprises, to make this true.

:shifty:

[Letum]

cant believe it...negative sounds from the grandfather of subsim community...this is frightening.


Grandfather?!
Subsimmer's must be getting younger these days!

[Arclight]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCAG1ilw_sM

footage from SHV "sneaking into Skapa Flow"
:hmmm: Must have missed that part of the movie. :lol:

[scrapser]

I can easily understand if the company tells us if we want the level of detail and realism we ask for we should not expect it to come in a single package that includes all platforms and to expect to pay for each additional platform added to the sim. In many ways I think this would take some of the pressure off from the penny pinchers and really let the devs run with the ball for a change.

Maybe this is where it's heading. Of course this is not a "one size fits all" solution for every type of sim out there but for subs it seems like a good idea. And I'm not saying it would have to be one platform at a time either. It could be for a group or something like that. In essence, an upgrade or add-on but at a more detailed level.

Books have been sold in chapters...why not sims?

[codmander]

I can easily understand if the company tells us if we want the level of detail and realism we ask for we should not expect it to come in a single package that includes all platforms and to expect to pay for each additional platform added to the sim. In many ways I think this would take some of the pressure off from the penny pinchers and really let the devs run with the ball for a change.

Maybe this is where it's heading. Of course this is not a "one size fits all" solution for every type of sim out there but for subs it seems like a good idea. And I'm not saying it would have to be one platform at a time either. It could be for a group or something like that. In essence, an upgrade or add-on but at a more detailed level.

Books have been sold in chapters...why not sims?

that would surely ease tensions

[Lt commander lare]

i think its pretty safe bet that this is was a huge kick in the coconuts if you ask me i went and upgraded for sh5 and for what nothing at all just a better pc maybe ubisoft will change there mind and reverse this but i bet not they did it with sh3 and there going to do it again to titles later there not that bright i will say that for them and neal is right alot of us are on 24-7 but the internet goes out alot atleast mine does and sh4 does not need an internet connection they need to change this

lt commander lare

[Jimbuna]

I'm pretty dissapointed with the latest news and like Neal, would simply ask... What's next? :hmmm:

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/2328/crysta121.gif

[johan_d]

GWX4 ?

[AVGWarhawk]

http://www.geekalerts.com/u/rc-sub.jpg

[Lanzfeld]

Combat Mission: Normandy from Battlefront.

Not the official name but will be out soon!:yeah::yeah::yeah:

[The General]

What we really need is a little competition from another software house in this niche market. Without it, it's difficult for Ubisoft's marketing men (and some members of this Community) to gain any perspective.

[IanC]

We're all feeling a bit let down now. What a kick in the nads. This latest round of news is like - finding out the girl of your dreams - used to be a man or some jazz.


:haha:... Silent Hunter 5 looked so sweet and sexy, untill we noticed the adam's apple. :o

[tonyj]

silent hunter turns into a platform like FSX and then commercial subs/addons/scenery by 3rd parties are developed and sold.

[frau kaleun]

Paying for ingame assets i guess...

20000 reichsmarks per torpedo, wheres my credit card.......

On the plus side, though, they did throw in some wire for free. You just have to look for it.

[HundertzehnGustav]

Wow Neal even you are starting to sound a little negative now. :oops:

and I see neal as an extremely Cool Man with nerves of f'n Battleship Steel.
His post makes me wonder too.

Neal, i am ranting, in your Virtual Saloon that Suibsim is, so please let me offer you a beer, as i cannot dso more for you than tell you that i appreciate the fact thet YOU enable ME to Voice my Opinion.

*beer*

Back to the Question...
I do not know. and little do i care. I am dissapointed, and have no more interest in the Future of the Silent hunter series. >maybe it ll come back in a few years.
Gimme GWX or LSHIII...

[Gilbou]

I would have bought the game even with only one sub (hoping that a following expansion pack would add the type IX and perhaps 1/2 years to go until 1943).

I'm going back to SH3+GWX which I'll combine with my current SH4.
I will wait for a DRM-free version, if it ever happens (when the game is out since a long time, having it protected is of no use.. So I hope they will remove the DRM and online-stuff with the last patch for example).

[Onkel Neal]

Wow, lot's of great posts, I'm gonna give that new multi-quote feature a stress test here :D


Originally Posted by SteamWake http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/smartdark/viewpost.gif (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?p=1246944#post1246944)
Wow Neal even you are starting to sound a little negative now. :oops:
Haha, well, I'm not happy about everything, either. I just try to keep an open mind until I actually play the game. Still, I am wondering if this trend of unflattering surprises will continue.


Wow :yeah: glad to see you question sh5 somewhat Neil guess that boycott post waS over the top :) but what the heck everytime man ,,get excited than poof bad news sick of that HEY UBI just give us a great sim period you started one with sh3 now finish it

Yeah, well, we will always have SH3. If SH5 rocks our world, we win. If it tanks, we can hope Ubisoft Romania will design the next edition of Silent Hunter to be a continuation of the traditional U-boat sim.






Dangerdeep, Subwolves, the restart of GWX4, 1C making a new subsim,
Subsim.com commissioning the first VIIC build since the '40s. :yeah:

Don't I wish!




Yes he does! Now that is starting to scare me when even uncle neal is starting to talk like this! Please stop scaring me or i will dive to 250 meters!

Steady, man. Those depth charges are not as close as they sound. Now, help me put out this electrical fire!

You bet it is!
I would give you a few screenshots, but I don't know if that would be OK
with the boss.
I'm putting lots of my spare time into it and So is the lead programmer
Peter, even tho he is busy with his professional legal work.

Hey, isn't it time for us to talk? I think a Subsim preview of Subwolves is LONG overdue :D

and I see neal as an extremely Cool Man with nerves of f'n Battleship Steel.
His post makes me wonder too.

Neal, i am ranting, in your Virtual Saloon that Suibsim is, so please let me offer you a beer, as i cannot dso more for you than tell you that i appreciate the fact thet YOU enable ME to Voice my Opinion.

*beer*

Back to the Question...
I do not know. and little do i care. I am dissapointed, and have no more interest in the Future of the Silent hunter series. >maybe it ll come back in a few years.
Gimme GWX or LSHIII...


Thanks for the beer, mate, and the wildness of these pre-release discussions is traditonal. If you remember before SH2, it was totally crazy! :rotfl2:

[HundertzehnGustav]

Neal, i only came aboard after SHIII...
This place, as a Online Lounge to chill out on, speak aboutt my Sub simming dreams, is a difficult place atm, but none the less appreciated.

[Letum]

Hey, isn't it time for us to talk? I think a Subsim preview of Subwolves is LONG overdue :D

haha!
Not my call, but PM sent.

[Randomizer]

So what happens down the pipe if UBISoft is sold?

One would think that any new owners would also own the rights to UBISoft's stable but would not stand to generate any income from the SH5 server without resorting to new fees. It's unlikely that there would be a continued requirement to support a "legacy" product.

UBISoft states that they will issue some sort of patch but if sold they might not have the legal right to do so as the game(s) may no longer belong to them.

I think this, more than any transient connection problems, represents the biggest issue with the always must be on-line DRM.

[Webster]

So what happens down the pipe if UBISoft is sold?


or the game itself is discontinued or sold to another developer

the answer is:

congradulations, you are SOL

[HundertzehnGustav]

NO GUYS...

read the website for the online platform

they promise to let you play offline.

[AVGWarhawk]

NO GUYS...

read the website for the online platform

they promise to let you play offline.

No doubt it will be playable off line. Some games check for updates then load. Others don't.

[bigboywooly]

No doubt it will be playable off line. Some games check for updates then load. Others don't.

From Seeadlers link

Is there an "off-line" option?
No. The added services to the game (unlimited installs, online storage of saved games and the fact that you don’t need the game disc to play) require you to have an online connection while playing the game

[GoldenRivet]

Also from the Q&A

What if Ubisoft decides not run these online services in the future? Will my game stop working?

Ubisoft is committed to being a forerunner in providing new exciting online service. If any service is stopped, we will create a patch for the game so that the core game play will not be affected.

[XLjedi]

What's next?

I cut the cost of my planned PC upgrade in half and buy an XBOX 360.
Continue learning C# and XNA and build my own damn sub game. BTW, anyone got any VIIC Milkshape models laying around?

[Randomizer]

Also from the Q&A

What if Ubisoft decides not run these online services in the future? Will my game stop working?

Ubisoft is committed to being a forerunner in providing new exciting online service. If any service is stopped, we will create a patch for the game so that the core game play will not be affected.
This is disingenuous at best and besides what else are they supposed to say. If UBISoft is sold down the road they will no longer own the game and so any promises of a magic patch are not worth the electrons it took to bring them to your screen.

Have a look at other game franchises where the original publishers have changed hands. Inevitably what happens is a "new" version is cranked out aimed at a new audiance and the legacy owners are hung out to dry.

Supporting the previous owner's software makes no business sense but remarketing a new and shiny version with no backwards compatibility will still find a market if the market was there in the first place. A couple of examples even though DRM didn't figure with any of them:

TOAW - COW vs. TOAW 3
Harpoon 3 vs. Harpoon ANW
Legion Gold vs. Matrix Legion Gold

And there's more. If this represents the future of PC gaming I think I'm going back to chess.

[Chef]

:haha:... Silent Hunter 5 looked so sweet and sexy, untill we noticed the adam's apple. :o
:haha: Is that 5 'o'clock shadow?

Activision killed Call of Duty for the PC this way. The new game won't allow independent servers which means no mods and no clans. You get thrown into a server with a bunch of strangers where the game is hosted by another person. If he leaves, the game ends and you all get thrown into another anonymous server of strangers. Welcome to the brave new world ruled by consoles. The PC game, especially the PC sim is a dying breed. :dead:

[Torplexed]

Wow. I'm late to the party (or funeral depending on your POV) and I've been absorbing it all. I must say I'm saddened too at the direction the industry is going in. I guess all the glorious eye candy is coming at the price of the game only ephemerally being yours...as long as they support it. Frankly, I worry if graphic applications will start going down this road too in the future.

And there's more. If this represents the future of PC gaming I think I'm going back to chess.

I may go back to my old cardboard & counters wargames. :O:

[UrPeaceKeeper]

:haha: Is that 5 'o'clock shadow?

Activision killed Call of Duty for the PC this way. The new game won't allow independent servers which means no mods and no clans. You get thrown into a server with a bunch of strangers where the game is hosted by another person. If he leaves, the game ends and you all get thrown into another anonymous server of strangers. Welcome to the brave new world ruled by consoles. The PC game, especially the PC sim is a dying breed. :dead:

Did you ever play CoD MW2? You are right, the game is hosted by a bunch of strangers, but you yourself can invite people to your group so long as they are in your steam profile as friends. Once you do that, you are guarenteed to play with them and if the teams allow on their side. There was a clan of 5 that stacked one side of a server. If the game host leaves the automated servers automatically search for a new host and the game continues as if the person never left. It's VERY annoying as often times hosts leave when they get frustrated by getting the smackdown from some trash talking 12 year old kid.

I hate it for the other reasons you posted, IE, no mods to fix stupid game play implementations and the absolutely horrible lag associated with playing the game. They did an ok job of producing the multiplayer, but I'm a bit pissed that I paid for the game in advance and was forced to wait 3 more days after my buddies got it for Xbox to even play the game and then on top of it, they basically told the PC community to F off. What happened was us PC gamers paid 60.00$ for a half arsed PC port and 3 hours of single player campaign... LAME.

I'm still bitter about that.

I haven't read anything about the DRM, but from what I gather, it's not good and frankly it will prevent me from buying it. I left WoW because I could not afford reoccuring subscription fee's while I'm a student at the University, no amount of nifty features will ever make me buy SH5 untill my finances are sorted out. Should funding allow, maybe I will purchase but I will approach it cautiosly. If not, SH4 is great as is SH3 with GWX. No skin off of my back, by the time Ubi has the kinks worked out of 5 we'll have full interriors for SH4 and 3 anyway and they will probably look a heck of a lot better.

:arrgh!:

[danurve]

I dunno what's worse, all this drm news or my 401k statement.

[Ships-R-Us]

Well, what a month it's been for Silent Hunter V news. A limited selection of ONE U-boat, a limited time in the war, and limited to playing while connected (be honest, which we all are 99% of the time :O:).

What's next? I wonder if Ubi has any more pleasant surprises for us?? Maybe Germany wins the war? Maybe a cameo by Churchill as the cook? :hmmm:

If nothing else, UBI with their announcement may have only solicited feedback reference "DRM". They knew that SUBSIM.com because of the size of Neals family would be a good sounding board. The reception on their end was great today at the expense of Neals server. Their decision was promulgated before that announcement. I believe it was UBI's intent so soften the blow against them prior to release.

[HMS Astute]

Paying for ingame assets i guess...

20000 reichsmarks per torpedo, wheres my credit card.......

Bernard will be a big financial liability :down:

[Jimbuna]

Bernard will be a big financial liability :down:

Never fear...in the UK we tend to reward financial abuse/failure.

[Onkel Neal]

Uh oh.... :shifty:

[floundericiousWA]

Well, what a month it's been for Silent Hunter V news. A limited selection of ONE U-boat, a limited time in the war, and limited to playing while connected (be honest, which we all are 99% of the time :O:).

What's next? I wonder if Ubi has any more pleasant surprises for us?? Maybe Germany wins the war? Maybe a cameo by Churchill as the cook? :hmmm:


Well, let's stop talking so much bloody rubbish, right?

They talk about a "dynamic campaign" that responds to the player's actions... and they do so while highlighting the battle for malta. Now as memory serves, the british dispatch some carriers to ferry some land based front-line aircraft to bolster Malta's defenders. Those carriers and the aircraft end up scaring the Italians into staying in port.

I'd wonder if the dynamic campaign wouldn't present the possibilty of a player success against the carriers causing the Italians to sortie against the reinforcement task forces and the island garrison. Maybe it would allow the Luftwaffe to gain aerial superiority which would change the Med battlefield tremendously.

[Onkel Neal]

Well, let's stop talking so much bloody rubbish, right?



Excuse me?

[Webster]

Well, what a month it's been for Silent Hunter V news. A limited selection of ONE U-boat, a limited time in the war, and limited to playing while connected (be honest, which we all are 99% of the time :O:).

im on 24/7 but im firewalled and never online with anybody unless i decide to so just because im always connected to the system doesnt mean i dont have my door locked so nobody gets in without my ok and i decide what info is recorded and sent out

ps - i think he meant UBI not you

[Onkel Neal]

Ok, sounds good. :)

[Pomorza]

Whats next.
Well to start off guys I was pretty happy to hear another Silent Hunter was coming out. But then I read that interview with the developers and that all left. I've been playing the SH series for...decades. I owned the original silent hunter. As non exciting as the graphics were in that game I was pretty much addicted to it from the start. Then they came out with SHII and I was even more excited. Graphics were enhanced and the game play changed a bit. SHIII came out and it was the same. Game play changed a bit and graphics enhanced. This past Christmas I bought SHIV. At first I never really wanted to buy it. To be honest I promised myself when it came out that I would never support any game UBI released. I played it and I must say that its not half bad. Its really just SHIII with better graphics which if you guys look at the series is basically what they did with the games, added better graphics to an already good game play mod. They did remove a number of things that I found nice about the other games but thats fine. Yes it isn't the best, but it can be modified and altered and really changed to fit what you want. (at least some of it can anyway)

So you asked whats next. SHV is next. A game that pretty much takes everything that we know from the Silent Hunter series and throws it out the window. First off not everyone likes tpye VII's. I personally prefer type IIs as they are great for port raiding and are hard as hell to find. So only having one choice in subs. Really? Secondly, just because the u-boat erea "ended" in May 1943 according to people doesn't actually meanit ended. The war if I'm not mistaken ended May of 1945. Thats two years, TWO, in which I don't know you could sink a couple of more ships and attempt to live through hell. I'm sure the surviving U-boat guys didn't really have the choice of ending their careers in 1943. (although many of them didn't have much of a choice. RIP). I personally I find what they have done as blasphemy. They took something that was good and changed it completely so that they can gain a more broad audiance. Business wise that's great but in the process you loose people like me who LOVE sub simulators.

So whats next. Whats next is me working on my 76' Datsun 280z and playing SHIII + GWX on my free time. I'm not going to buy SH5 unless they change it back to what all the other Silent Hunter games were. Unless they bring back all the uboats to choose from and all the other great things that I've come to love about Silent Hunter then forget it. I'm not spending $ on crap.

Sorry for the rant guys but I had to get it off my chest.
Sorry
Jan

[floundericiousWA]

Excuse me?

I meant, as a group, get off the ranting about DRM and the complaining... if we're going to talk about SHV, then let's talk about the GAME itself

[bigboywooly]

I meant, as a group, get off the ranting about DRM and the complaining... if we're going to talk about SHV, then let's talk about the GAME itself

Unfortunately apart from a some eye candy pics there is very little of the game we can talk about
Apart from deficiencies

[KL-alfman]

I meant, as a group, get off the ranting about DRM and the complaining... if we're going to talk about SHV, then let's talk about the GAME itself


but the OSP-theme is the main issue which prevents people even from buying it!
what use there will be to talk about a game we have (nearly) no info about (apart from screen-shots and a 2min-vid in-game)??

[Iron Budokan]

What's next? I have no earthly idea.

But there's this funny feeling in my gut another shoe is yet to be dropped....

:gulp:

[Brag]

The silence from Ubi probably reveals dissaray in their ranks. :cool:

[Cptn_Enth]

What's next? I have no earthly idea.

But there's this funny feeling in my gut another shoe is yet to be dropped....

:gulp:


Personally...I think Ubisoft has raided Imelda Marcos' Shoe closet...

*stocks his bunker with supplies and waits patiently for it to begin raining stilettos, mules, pumps and espadrilles...*

I haven't been fly-fishing in a while...and April's not too far off. Time to start tying up a mess of nymphs and early season dry flies for the upcoming trout season.

Here's to hoping that someone at Ubisoft comes to their senses and soon...

[Nickolas]

What's next?

that the dynamic campaign is actually scripted up to agreat degree instead of being the "random campaign" we love.

[FIREWALL]

What's next in the future ?

UBISOFT The Largest Console and Pay to Play Game Co. in the World. :o

[Webster]

What's next in the future ?


first you purchase a wireless credit card scanner along with the game.

when you want to play the game, you run your credit card through and you get a one time key to log on to ubi servers.

you will be billed 50 cents a minute US dollars for every minute of game time including game pauses due to server errors.

loading up a saved game or new game saves cost $1 and each additional save after that costs $2 more.

every time you want to play the game you must repeat the process

[Sgtmonkeynads]

I'll be seeing those SH5 giftcards at the Wal-Mart checkout isles.
5$ good for 5 gallons of fuel for your U-Boat.
10$ good for 5 gallons of fuel or 1/2 ammo storage refill
20$ good for 1943 [ Months of January to July only all other extra]

[JScones]

What's next?

Well, we had the left jab with the single U-boat and 1943 end; the right hook with the DRM, so I'm guessing it's a right boot to the rib cage.

[FIREWALL]

What's next?

Well, we had the left jab with the single U-boat and 1943 end; the right hook with the DRM, so I'm guessing it's a right boot to the rib cage.


I'm betting a bit lower and more centered. :p2: :har:

[Sgtmonkeynads]

Inorder to play you have to have a picture of yourself holding a goverment issued I.D. and todays newspaper.

[McBeck]

Whats next?

Dan and the developers leave Ubi, start ther own company and build a KICKASS sub sim!! :yeah:

[V.C. Sniper]

oh hell yeah

[Reece]

Whats next?

Dan and the developers leave Ubi, start ther own company and build a KICKASS sub sim!! :yeah:Now that would be awesome!!:yeah:

[COWBOY10]

13/04/10

It is with sad regret, I have to inform you of the Collapse of a Gaming Giant, Ubisoft. It came out of the blue said one Ubisoft Manager.

All was going fine at the beginning of the year. Then we decided on a new policy, of having our gamers, having to connect online 24/7 when they play our games. We told them it was in their best intrests, But I still cant understand why it didnt work. I mean our servers only crashed 3 times an Hr, But they could jump back in when they came online again. OK they would have lost all the hrs they had been playing, if they didnt have a chance to save. But thats all part of the experience right.

Ubisoft Had managed to get a collection of great games ready for 2010, but sadly, once the new OSP was added, None Sold. Talking to one Manager, he told us that they took the normal Ubisoft option, of burying their heads in the sand, as that normally works and the nasty gamers go away.


We have learnt that there is one peice of good news though. Ubisoft are front runners to win this years Darwin awards.

Killing yourself ( in this case the company ) In the Dummest way possible






Who needs nostradamus, when this policy makes it easy to see the future.

[Hartmann]

that the dynamic campaign is actually scripted up to agreat degree instead of being the "random campaign" we love.


No. it´s a dynamic campaign based in single missions and scripts.

Mission successful load mission 1
Mission failed load mission 2

1943 boss level , sunk 15-20 ships and you won the war :haha: