Ok... hope's high again... :yeah::D

The second we're allowed to play it offline, I'll take a taxi to the closest game store. :up:

Yeah, me too. I do have a stable and fast internet connection, but its the principle. (And the fact that I bet the one time my internet goes dead I would be at sea in SH5)

I do have a pretty stable connection... But what about there servers... what if I want to play the game, but they have something else in mind... well then I am stuck with a disc... and 5+ gigs of BS on my hard drive till they surface again...

Ubi makes no sence...

Right then, can some one please point me to a link that proves that SH5
(not Ubi games in general but specifically SH5) will have DRM that pauses the game if you lose your internet connection?

If not, then it is just yet more spectulation & assumptions. :doh:

Anything can happen in the next 5 weeks

From Q and A on this forum

http://forums-de.ubi.com/eve/forums/...161085487/p/14

Quote:
Silent Hunter 5 includes our new online services: You can install your game on as many computers, your savegames are stored online and you can retrieve it from anywhere and will play on any DVD / CD longer needed in the drive.
To ensure this, the game must be linked with the Ubi.com, and the PC must be connected during the entire season with the Internet.

From Q and A on this forum

http://forums-de.ubi.com/eve/forums/...161085487/p/14


And from Elanaiba

Which basically says its in if you dont trust the first link

Thanks BBW.
" The computer must be conected for the entire 'season' " ? like winter, spring? or do they mean 'session'
either way I still dont see any hard evidence of the game pausing or crapping out if a connection is lost.
Though i appreiciate that is how it sounds.

Im still buy it regardless, for me personally- it will be no worse that my connection flaking out when I am playing C&C or something online.

lol keep up mate

http://support.uk.ubi.com/online-services-platform/

What will happen if I lose my Internet connection when I play the game?
If you lose your Internet connection the game will pause while it tries to reconnect. If the Internet Connection is unable to resume you can continue the game from where you left off or from the last saved game.

Dont panic! How are you going to lose your connection if you do go find a better ISP provider. Im on one of NZ crappiest internet ISP available i play online games like World of Warcraft, Battlefield 2 and Steams Teamfortress this requires continuous internet connection, Never lose it apart from the odd power failure during a storm which is like once in a blue moon. Why would I lose connection when playing SH5 then. It only needs connection to start the game. And im sure their be an offline mode available - if not im certain we will not have disconnections with ubisoft/steam network?

i believe the problem is servers and not ISP

also according to UBI there is no offline, you have to be online or you cant play it

servers are only going to cause issues if theres an overload use, I can't see 10 million people connecting to SH5, more like in the thousands or the way some are scared of this online connection then might end up as couple of hundred! :O:

but ....

this DRM is for ALL of their 2010 games and they arent microsoft so i dont expect top of the line server banks of the very latest equipt with the capacity to handle ALL the gamers for their games.

can you honestly not see this overwhelming the system and having slow downs, crashes, and server rationing going on.

The devs have now commented on 2)
DRM will not affect modding directly

No. Not everyone else works for a paycheck. Some people really do like what they do. And some people want to make things that are good (as opposed to "good enough"). Such people do exist. Whether or not any of them can be found in Ubisoft is another matter. ;)

I think the dev team are one example of that...

Working for a paycheck doesn't exclude loving your work. :DL

i guess there will some kind of workaround for this connection thing, soon after the release...

:arrgh!:

Connect to server .
Start playing game .
My son disconnects the bloody internet for some ludicrous reason again .
The game pauses while it reconnects .
I play the game again .
I have sunk a battleship .
I save the game .
I get a message saying i have unlocked the golden torpedoes .
I have gained 100 Ubi super dooper points to download the golden stopwach .
I go to log in , in 12 months time .
I have to pay to suscribe to the server .
Stick that .

hopefully only an official one! :cool: