answering the poll/OP:

None of the above.

I was always on the fence about buying SH V when brand new (that's more my position on video games in general, given the number of dollars I've wasted getting it hot off the presses then seeing it for 1/3 five months later)

I am unmoved from that point of view. I want more data and details before I invest $50 or more in buying a game. I want to know how stable it is, how the DRM will work, how some of the other feature content will work, etc. I will be following closely and will decide after I have more information.

Maybe they're fighting an anti-hype battle...you know, lowering expectations so that when it's released and the first patch or two fixes the majority of remaining bugs, people will be pleasantly surprised?

It's a popular corporate mantra these days "always under-promise and over-deliver"

Excuse me sir but you're a lucky one if so... what I rather tend to experience is "always not promise or elude some promises and under-deliver"
That would rather be the popular corporate mantra for me these days

So any new mods coming up for SH3? :hmmm: GWX4? :yeah:

Wont buy it until DRM removed

If its like that Rise of flight crap, start it up wait forever - make a change to something shut down restart again wait some more, what a waste of money, if this is what we have to look forward to I'm all set on sh5 not buying such a shame. :down:

Rich

Were up to $14050.00 USD

You wrote what??? maybe 100 posts of this kind...

I think we all know what is your opinion about SH5.

No need to add more.

No. This is the new version.
In past versions I still had a-little hope that the release of SH5 would be improved.
Now I simply don't care if it's improved or not. Big difference.

Who appointed you to head up subsim's posting police?

Read carefully: I said ''no need to add more'' and not ''stop doing this''. Big difference.

Anyway... continue if you wish, I'm sure everyone appreciate this.

After reading more on this DRM I have decided that I too will be putting off buying this title or any Ubi title seeing as you won't actually own the game. I don't want to have to have a connection to play a single player game. THis has got to be the most absurd thing Ubi could have done. This will be the first in the SH series I pass on. I was really looking forward to it but not now. :damn:

I think Ubi has just completely shot themselves in the foot with this move. They are going to lose a lot of sales over this....and not just from us.

Check out the comments on this thread on Reddit regarding the Ubi DRM news: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comme...equire_you_to/
Darn near every single one of them is negative.

Whoever dreamed up this scheme at Ubi is going to be feeling some heat pretty soon. I predict that this will not last long.

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I bought SH3 a couple of years ago and loved the experience but found adding a few mods to the game caused it to crash. Going to get back into it without any mods. SH5 looks and sounds like a great game but having to be online to play sucks. I'm a boardgamer as well and will purchase Silent War to play the Pacific submarine campaign and Steel Wolves when it's released for the Atlantic.
I'll try my hand at SH4 as it's pretty cheap to buy now but at least with a boardgame you don't have to worry about being online or crashes!

Very bad call Ubisoft. As a longtime fan of this genre, I really want to support anyone that's brave enough to develop a WW2 subsim these days. But I'm sad to say I'm going to have to take a pass on SH5.

First the news of no type IX's or XXI and a end date of 43. I didn't like it at all but I had hopes that they planed to shore that up with DLC-expansion packs. Then the news of a rather underwhelming collectors edition, now this excessive protection scheme. These are the main reasons why I've just canceled my preorder with Amazon.

DRM, not in my subsims please. I don't want or need my rights managed. :nope:

Hopefully one day the dev team can find a more reasonable publisher.

I do keep mentioning the the Developers are in fact UBISOFT Romania!!:-?

So what? They are not Ubisoft corporate, i.e. the publisher.