I wish I knew. Guess I've gotta wait for the early user reports to surface before deciding one way or another...

This online requirement is pure absurdity, or even beyond absurd, for a single-player off-line game. It wouldn't matter if the internet was available 100% of the time everywhere, for everybody, you still don't own the game, you must request authorization everytime you want to play it:

"Daddy, can I play the game, pleeeease? I purchased it myself with all the savings of my piggy bank! Pleeeeease?"

"Just a moment, sonny, let me see that proof of purchase again, you little rascal!"

I see no reason to ask Ubisoft permission to play a game that I have purchased, and I see no reason to be presumed guilty until proven innocent, and being required to prove my innocence, not once, but forever, indefinitely, to the end of times.

This is bull****. The only day I'll buy SH5 is when this insult to the customer is removed.

DRM really puts another nail in the coffin about purchasing this at release. I'm now on the "wait and see" list.:shifty:

Surface the Thread!

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Sticky ?
 

The figures showing in the poll appears to be the easiest way to see the sentiment here, could it be stickied again?:03:

If we could get a real large number of votes then maybe UBI would be able to digest what it says. (If it was presented to them)

Pay to own the sim, have info collected from your useage habits etc. sold to other gaming interests and not be offered a share of the profits. Outrageous!......They won,t get my money until they rethink this, and not just SH5 but any game, software or applications. This smacks of Big Brother, shades of " 1984 " and Micro you know who! I don't think I've ever been MORE motivated to post something in the 15 years I've been on the internet. Once again, OUTRAGEOUS!!!!

due to popular demand its restickied


start parade, women raise shirts, show boobies for subsimmers :woot:

Sorry.. no boobies allowed :nope:
:D

Well, we know dowly isnt comeing now.:rotfl2:

:o :har:

I'd demand equal time, but moobies don't really do anything for me.

So I was gonna ask what else you got... but that would probably be a bad idea. :O:

up scope / schnorkel

Something like that, perhaps?

:D

As usual the answers are woefully incomplete and none of them applies to the decision the vast majority will make. Personally I was always in the "pioneers get all the arrows" category and would not consider preordering the game. I buy things that I am able to evaluate beforehand and have proven value. SH5 has never met that criteria and won't until well after release after I count the arrows in the pioneers. Ubi must earn my business with each release.

But in fairness, nobody knows the true impact of this "DRM" which is no DRM, but another scheme entirely. DRM is some kind of copy protection scheme which renders the game problematic for honest players, but which pirates remove completely so they can distribute a truly superior product for free. DRM, then, as currently practiced, simply doesn't work.

As a result game companies, such as EA, which is traveling down this same road, have gotten creative. The CEO of EA even invited pirates to copy and distribute their titles. Why not help out the cause and take on some of the distribution costs? EA gets the money anyway when they play. Ubi is playing catchup.

How will this work out in practice? WE DON'T KNOW! The sky may indeed be falling. I doubt it though. Heck, I logged onto a two year old Runescape account that hadn't been played in that long, discovered a completely different Runescape that only superficially resembled Runescape of two years ago, with "all new code." What happened? My on-line save game loaded and played flawlessly. Try loading your save game after switching from RFB to TMO. You'll be doing the old Wiley Coyote thing off the mile-high cliff.

Ubi's scheme may be the best thing that ever happened, or it could be as bad as the chicken littles are catastrophizing about. The hand wringing is most entertaining and predictable. How about let's wait and see? That, of course, is the obvious missing answer. Polls suck!

If you want to cancel your preorder, you're only correcting a rash decision that deserved not to be made anyway. But keep an open mind and check out the product when it's issued. Then all this baseless speculation goes out the window and is replaced with hard facts.

"Is that a schnorkel on your u-boat, or are you just happy to see me?"

You wouldnt believe it . My other hobby is four wheel driving and today toyota said i have to be on the phone to them or my engine wont run .