Keep us updated with your ability (or lack thereof) to stay connected to the authentication servers from NZ ISP please :)
I am interested to see how it goes for you.

DRM
 

So far I have had the game since March 5 (d/l via steam) and had NO internet issues at all, either here (vodafone) or with the servers at UBI :yeah:
Will be interesting to see how everyone else here from NZ goes!

Ya, would be great to hear from all the SH5 playing Kiwis how the server outages have affected them. I have been holding off buying the game because I know I would go 'off the deep end' if on top of all the usual bugs of the SH series I couldn't play because of server faults.