Takeda,

I am not holding "PT Boats" up as a "Shining example". Just an example, for better or worse, that some other publishers are moving into first person naval combat.

For the rest of the "Support Ubi because its the only game in town" crowd. Why don't you go here http://dangerdeep.sourceforge.net/ and give these guys your support! They are working on a Type VII game that is FREE! Open Source, no draconian DRM, no 100% internet connection.

Well lets put it this way. Ubi charged full price for a software product that you can not own. You cannot enjoy it as you see fit eg. on a laptop on a flight or a country without stable internet or if you pay for your internet usage time. You cannot dispose of the disk as you wish by selling it or giving it to a friend. You may not be able to play it ten years from now on legacy hardware. What you bought is a licencse to log into Ubisofts's servers to play SH5 as long as Ubi supports it. However long or short that may be. Considering that your uses of SH5 is much less than common to the industry at that price point -- I say yes Ubi owed their customers more than what it delivered under the DRM scheme they chose.