I hear you loud and clear matey :salute:

That would explain the uniform eh.. :hmmm:

And now I think about it - our uniform is blue ! :o

Not at all. A person who uses it just wishes to skip to the next campaign by modding his installation, and by doing so accidentally happens to bypass the DRM too. :O:

Situation hasn't changed from what it was 24h after release.

Hah... Wulfman why have you bought the game if you knew DRM is a crap from the very begining ? I really hope you knew that, since talks about it were boiling in every corner in these forums when UBI announced it's going to be implemented :D I believe everybody made their minds very quickly when they found out what is this DRM thing and how it works.. Honest customers.. Honesty as itself is good thing so I'll be honest to you as well. Your honesty or trust was too blind and turned out to be your curse.. Now when I think about why most of the games are sold in US ? I think because there so many "Honest" people like no where else who buy the game no matter what hoping that everything will be ok, if not they sound the alarm but in the end the choice was made by them anyway, finally who's to blame ? lol.. So I guess it's such mentality out there over the ocean.. :) Now every thread about DRM malfunctions just makes me smile :D When **** starts to happen Honest customers more often keeps peeping in the wrong direction towards piracy to look for the way out, what a paradox isn't it ? :) So think about it again. Is it really bad to do bad things for good purposes or act a honest customer role and then curse all saints for what you are ? lol

I have not bought SH5 and I will not buy it until I can get a No-CD exe so I can play without being online.
However, once I get a No-CD I will buy a legal copy and would not consider a pirated one even if I could DL one. Not right.

I am on dial up on this PC and my game PC is not online and will not be online so I can not play a DRM type game even if I wanted to.

I certainly want to play SH5 but I can wait because a stock version will need the usual 40 or 50 UBI fixes from their buggy release (Orkin will guarantee your home from termites but even they would not try to rid a UBI game of bugs).

I am confident the mods will eventually make this a very cool game and who knows UBI may even get a clue at some point and realize they are dumber than dumb for ever thinking about DRM.

They will never admit it that would take real character but they may release a NO-CD themselves at some point perhaps when someone that does not have their head stuck up their ars explains that they will profit more by doing so than by the current screw the legal customers attitude

Wulfmann

Look I don't want to be a downer, and I understand WHY some of you want the crack for your legal copies. I admit considering it myself. But the thing you have to consider is what happens if Ubisoft pulls a Microsoft?

ex.

Lets say you download that working crack, even though you bought the game legally, and then you still connect occasionally to download their updates.

All Ubisoft has to do is, as part of an update, or as a part of all future updates, add in something that searches for that crack, and then if it finds it, permanently disables your game's ability to update and/or ban your CD key forver.

And then you'll have to rebuy Silent Hunter V to play it OR be forced to play from install 1.0 with no updates
-----

Can't happen?

Yes it can - this is EXACTLY what Microsoft did to XBox Live users who modded their Xboxes against the terms of use. Do you really want to take that chance?

Difference is, XBOX users cannot restore their "pre-crack" files. When you want to update, you just copy back all your unpatched files so that it looks and updates as if nothing ever happened. Nothing Ubi can do to prevent that. All you have to do is then re-apply the NOCD crack (for the new version, of course). Its not rocket science. So stop the fear mongering that you will kill your purchase, because you won't. :know:

I am almost certain there will be an official DRM removal tool at some point. Their options seem somewhat limited on the matter really.
They can run authentication servers for every game they make from now until dooms day. This doesn't make sense to me from a cost effective point of view. Running all those servers for all their games with this DRM is going to cost a lot considering there is no monthly fee.
Or they can run authentication servers for their new releases until it is apparent to them continuing new sales of the game gets outstripped by the overhead of running the authentication servers for this particular game. At that point they would need to release a DRM removal tool.

I guess there is one other thing they could do, and that is remove the auth servers for SH5 and not support it all from that point, but I really doubt they would do that.

Anytime one wants to get a patch from UBI they can do a fresh install get the patch and then add the files back for mods. I did it for 3 &4.

One thing I agree with UBI on is the fact piracy is causing them to over react to protect themselves and I really do understand that fear.
I wish no one would pirate and while $50.00 US or so is not cheap consider it is going on 5 years I am playing (still) SH3.

I buy a few FPS and the old F1 2002 (new F1 2010 is coming out and I will likely spend a few hundred on a killer steering wheel) and of course was a mod maker (flame alert) for the best combat flight sim to date CFS3 (yes IL-2 was a better game just not accurate flight characteristics) so I am not a play it for a week/month and move on to the next game type of guy so I want to support the developers of such things as Silent Hunter.

I just wish UBI did not feel like it has to attack me to protect itself from people who are not me.

Wulfmann

Yea.. If Ubi wants to see how a release is done, they should watch Codemasters release F1 2010 later this year. They are worried about ppl spending $50? How about people spending $500+ on F1 2010 getting their system souped up, top of the line wheels, plus the product.