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HundertzehnGustav 01-30-10 08:25 PM

sounds like you have been sold a promise... and they are not willing/able to keep it.

thanks for the warning...

JScones 01-30-10 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Méo (Post 1253190)
Are those arguments based on something concrete?

Nup, at least nothing that I could find. You could just as well take any thread here and replace SH5 with <insert game name>.

Pretty much lots ofhttp://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/im...s/cussing2.gif and oodles of http://www.thedailyscrapper.com/foru...ons_panik3.gif and http://www.spartantailgate.com/forum...lies/panic.gif

Task Force 01-30-10 08:34 PM

well, anouther thing wold be to stop chargeing 40 or 50 dollars for a game, people dont want to pay 30 to 50 bucks to buy something that could be a POS...

Elder-Pirate 01-30-10 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by JScones (Post 1253254)
Nup, at least nothing that I could find. You could just as well take any thread here and replace SH5 with <insert game name>.

Pretty much lots ofhttp://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/im...s/cussing2.gif and oodles of http://www.thedailyscrapper.com/foru...ons_panik3.gif and http://www.spartantailgate.com/forum...lies/panic.gif


Yeah but the question is are you going to MOO or not? :haha:

THE_MASK 01-30-10 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Task Force (Post 1253257)
well, anouther thing wold be to stop chargeing 40 or 50 dollars for a game, people dont want to pay 30 to 50 bucks to buy something that could be a POS...

$88 at ebgames here in aus .

Stealth Hunter 01-30-10 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by TwistedFemur (Post 1253243)
just my 2 cents. Take it for what its worth.

I bought Rise of Flight and enjoyed it immensly (sp) until.......

After a few weeks of playing as the ROF community grew and more and more people bought and played it. I noticed that i was getting more and more "lost connection to master server" errors as the server struggled with all the conections.

well I guess my point is.... there is going to be a point where the server is not going to be able to handle all the connections.


As an anti-pirating scheme required internet connection works well and to my knowledge ROF has not been successfully copied.....but...... hundreds, if not thousands of people have decided not to buy it because of the internet connection requirement and the extremely long load times as the server checks the code at start up and in between each mission.

Odd. What kind of connection are you using? Because I've been playing it so far with no problems at all. Even on my wireless.:hmmm:

Task Force 01-30-10 08:49 PM

lol... 88$ games arnt worth almost 100$:yep: NO game is.

subsimlee 01-30-10 09:45 PM

Just thought of something that would really get Ubi to rethink this DRM/OSP thing. Much has been said about showing displeasure with your wallet. We know this is hard to quantify; how's Ubi to know exactly how many COULD have bought the sim ( or any of the future games they plan to apply this scheme ) .
The one source that they can have good and clear numbers from is their stock value. If we can make noise in the right venues.......... venues that shareholders frequent, they're going to see that there are real risks to the value of the stocks they hold in Ubi and start bailing out before they lose their shirts.
That IMHO may just get Ubi's attention in the concrete manner that might put this horrible issue to rest for good!

TwistedFemur 01-30-10 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Stealth Hunter (Post 1253265)
Odd. What kind of connection are you using? Because I've been playing it so far with no problems at all. Even on my wireless.:hmmm:

maybe its because I am over 5000 miles from moscow. But I havnt played ROF in over a month. Ive completly lost interest in it because of the 2 reasons stated in my OP

Tok 01-30-10 11:40 PM

Well, where I live you do not depend on being online much......it's down most of the time. Well damm it anyway.....i'm not buying SH5 I guess. :cry:

Gatt 01-31-10 01:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Méo (Post 1253223)
Interesting, but it is only a single example (it may be an exception, who knows?), nothing tells me it represents a global situation.

Look, my NDA allows me to say that I'm a RoF beta-tester and I can assure you the DRM can be a PITA. To be honest, not always but for some guys OFTEN. From time to time servers and/or your connection ARE down. It happens. I can tell you that since I've been an AcesHigh2 player for 6-7 years. When it happens ITS FRUSTRATING.

RoF (with the Dogfight dedicated servers) and AH2 are online simulations but SH5, AFAIK and in any case for me, is mainly an offline sim. This kind of DRM, for offliners IS an obvious problem. What will I do from my country house (no internet connection) if I want to play on my laptop? I'd curse UBI?

Players, through hundreds of posts made neoQB change his mind about it and they probably will drop it in the near future for offline playing.

You dont know how many people are waiting for this drop before buying RoF. Many of my friends are.

What about the old DVD in the player and a thick printed manual? What about Battlefront online activation? Or Steam? Players would prefer (and/or) accept these systems instead of the "always online" DRM.

HundertzehnGustav 01-31-10 07:44 AM

I remember settlers II, where you had to have the manual , to get some sympbols in it, to activate/verify if you were a legit user. That was fun, back in the day.

Brag 01-31-10 08:01 AM

This morning it only took me a few seconds to find anger against Ubi, not here, not about subsims, but other games.

Ubi is faced with a general customer revolt!

Try it yourself:

Type Ubisoft forum SH-5 on your browser.

Moo!

HundertzehnGustav 01-31-10 09:11 AM

should i go there?

i have seen the Ubi-zoo, and do not dare stepping back in again...
but curious i am! whats up?

Steeltrap 01-31-10 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by HundertzehnGustav (Post 1253607)
should i go there?

i have seen the Ubi-zoo, and do not dare stepping back in again...
but curious i am! whats up?

I went and read a thread. Much the same as you'll see, with many posters saying "constant internet connection for single player makes no sense".

Oh, and Tim Renken (a.k.a. Trenken) is posting there about its merits, too.


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