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TigerOmega
02-23-10, 09:52 AM
Ubi can offer a Diamond edition and I won't buy it with DRM.
TH0R
02-23-10, 09:55 AM
I presume you do know that 'gold edition' means the game has reached its release state? :D
Mud
02-23-10, 09:56 AM
well well

post reported as DRM spam, we have a thread for this
no need for more "I don't buy" DRM threads
Feuer Frei!
02-23-10, 09:59 AM
I presume you do know that 'gold edition' means the game has reached its release state? :D

I'm more concerned with where this thread "may" possibly go.....:-?
kylania
02-23-10, 09:59 AM
I presume you do know that 'gold edition' means the game has reached its release state? :D

"Gone gold" means it's reached it's release state and been sent to the manufacturers.

However, in this case Ubisoft is selling a "Gold Edition (http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/53280/Silent-Hunter-V-Battle-Of-The-Atlantic-Gold-Edition-Announced)" of SH5 complete with Draconian "constant grip" DRM, 3 unplayable U-boat skins you might possibly see, 4 "unique" ship models you might happen to bump into and some PDFs of a guide of some sort for $10 more than the $49.95 rental fee for the basic game. It's basically the Collector's Edition for the US without anything collectible.
oscar19681
02-23-10, 10:01 AM
When i first red it i to thought it said it had reached gold status. But later on i releazed it was not. But i was wondering. Should sh-5 have reached gold status weeks ago?
Heretic
02-23-10, 10:02 AM
I presume you do know that 'gold edition' means the game has reached its release state? :D

That's 'gone gold', a bit different and refers to the CD master. I've always thought of Gold editions as generally coming out much later in a products life cycle and often package the original game with whatever expansions have been released. It is a little strange to see one pre-release. I suppose they can call it whatever they want.

I see this one includes a 'strategy guide', which in the old days meant 'the manual'. I've thought for some time the regular release will include more of the pamphlet type manual so as not to be so intimidating to the casual gamer.
Blood_splat
02-23-10, 10:03 AM
Gold really means coal edition.
TH0R
02-23-10, 10:07 AM
"Gone gold" means it's reached it's release state and been sent to the manufacturers.

However, in this case Ubisoft is selling a "Gold Edition (http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/53280/Silent-Hunter-V-Battle-Of-The-Atlantic-Gold-Edition-Announced)" of SH5 complete with Draconian "constant grip" DRM, 3 unplayable U-boat skins you might possibly see, 4 "unique" ship models you might happen to bump into and some PDFs of a guide of some sort for $10 more than the $49.95 rental fee for the basic game. It's basically the Collector's Edition for the US without anything collectible.

I do believe that the author of the article in question might have made a mistake and mistook the 'collector's edition' (http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/1121062387/m/2881074728/p/1) for the 'gold edition'. But I may be wrong.
piri_reis
02-23-10, 10:08 AM
Ubi can offer a Diamond edition and I won't buy it with DRM.

Who cares what you do?

-Post reported
Sailor Steve
02-23-10, 10:11 AM
I do believe that the author of the article in question might have made a mistake and mistook the 'collector's edition' (http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/1121062387/m/2881074728/p/1) for the 'gold edition'. But I may be wrong.
Wrong again.
http://www.direct2drive.com/9213/product/Buy-Silent-Hunter:-Battle-Of-The-Atlantic-Gold-Edition-Download
TH0R
02-23-10, 10:14 AM
Wrong again.
http://www.direct2drive.com/9213/product/Buy-Silent-Hunter:-Battle-Of-The-Atlantic-Gold-Edition-Download

What am I looking here? The links takes me to the Battlefield Bad Company 2...
Heretic
02-23-10, 10:17 AM
Wrong again.
http://www.direct2drive.com/9213/product/Buy-Silent-Hunter:-Battle-Of-The-Atlantic-Gold-Edition-Download

Thanks for the link.
I'm tempted to get this one rather than ordering through Amazon just so I didn't have to wait for delivery. The UPS man is such a tease. But ordering through Amazon supports Subsim. Decisions, decisions...
Sailor Steve
02-23-10, 10:19 AM
How interesting. I'm looking at a box that says "Silent Hunter 5", and on the top in big capital letters it says GOLD EDITION.

And the link itself says "direct2drivecom/9213/product/Buy-Silent-Hunter:-Battle-Of-The-Atlantic-Gold-Edition-Download"
mookiemookie
02-23-10, 10:20 AM
I don't do digital downloads unless it's Steam.
kylania
02-23-10, 10:20 AM
What am I looking here? The links takes me to the Battlefield Bad Company 2...

It's probably since you're viewing from outside the US, the Gold Edition is US/Canada only.

http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/3186/goldedition.jpg
Sailor Steve
02-23-10, 10:20 AM
I don't do digital downloads, including Steam.
TH0R
02-23-10, 10:24 AM
It's probably since you're viewing from outside the US, the Gold Edition is US/Canada only.

Or it might have to do something with the internet 'filter' here at my university. Facebook, YouTube, GameSpot and similar pages can't be accessed. I will have to look at the link when i get home.

So in other words, they are now calling the collector's edition - the gold edition.


I don't do digital downloads, including Steam.

Going with Steam is Helluva lot better than this DRM/OSP crap as it provides offline play.
Heretic
02-23-10, 10:26 AM
I've never had a problem with digital downloads. I get all my Matrix Games titles that way and bought several through GOG.com and Gamersgate. Gotta keep backup copies, of course.
Heretic
02-23-10, 10:28 AM
So in other words, they are now calling the collector's edition - the gold edition.


It looks like the Gold edition is a downloadable version of the collectors edition, minus the stuff that can't be downloaded.
MercurySeven
02-23-10, 10:32 AM
I'd like to know how the "Gold Edition" (usually the main title plus the addon(s)) will be called in the US, now that they called this ... thing Gold Edition already.
Sailor Steve
02-23-10, 10:41 AM
Going with Steam is Helluva lot better than this DRM/OSP crap as it provides offline play.
Except for the part where they claim I'm outside of their support area, right in the middle of the US of A! I tried to download UBM, and it took me weeks to find out that they think I'm somewhere I'm not.

No, I don't like downloading full games anyway. Extra add-on stuff, sure. But I like to read actual paper books, and I like to look at the game box once in a while. And the manual, except they don't give out too many of those anymore.
Webster
02-23-10, 11:16 AM
point of view was expressed by the OP but there is no question or topic for discussion raised so therefore thread is closed since it has served its purpose.

please continue DRM discussions in the DRM thread