fail. lets set the situation.

your in the middle of a convoy, around ships. All of a suddent OAH NO!!! connection lost... so... ok, I can save... Save

"later that day"

Hmm, ubis servers are up. start...

Ok load save...

game starts

WERE TAKEING DAMAGE SIR!!! MEN DOWN ON THE DECK! WERE UNDER ATTACK!!!

Death screen...

Im pretty sure, like all SHs before, this game will have the save game bug, where when ships are around sometimes bad stuff happens... ya just never know.

Heck, the meal in the kitchen was sounding pretty darn good, xcept for the brown tea and sugar part. Given Neals scenario I gave it a pass.

Task Force, that is what I've said the whole time about the auto save. They have had how long to get it right and haven't so far, so why expect anything different now. I know that's harsh, but if faced with a known problem and not fixing it just shows bad intentions in the first place.

The old saying, "How mant times do you shoot yourself in the foot before you figure out that it hurts?" According to UBI, the answer is "Four , with one in the pipe."

I don't know the specifics of how they are doing saved games but its common to have both local storage and storage on a server. The local storage is there for the case where reading/writing to the server fails.

Because Ubi specified that the game will save both to their server and your hard drive. When it has a connection again, it will sync the save on the server with the local save.


As for the scenario Neal posted, it sounds like the exact way that Ubi said it should work. I have no real problems with save games being on their servers. If it works, and works well, "pass".

I do still have a problem with the game needing to verify from a server over an internet connection the entire time I'm playing. I just do not see my time playing being dependent on a possibly bad connection, as well as their servers being up. I just see too many problems with the system. That's why I have to give it a "fail".

Also, sugar in tea? That's reason for "fail" as well.

So, one "pass", two "fail".

Murphey's Law
 

This predicts that things go wrong at the most inappropiate time.

After hours of patroling or shadowing you decide the moment is right to strike, The fish are away, and a DD has detected you on radar, you react and start you desperate manovers to cover yourself, the pinging begins and is getting faster, and louder, your pulse is racing....................

Sorry but the connection to UBI has been.... (blah blah blah)

I at this point would not be thinking about a nice cup of tea...

UBI say that SH5 is all about imersion, but these interuptions will completley destroy that feeling for me.

I notice that UBI servers were offline for several hours on the 4th Feb. So if you were playing and run into one of these maintance periods, then a cup of tea wouldn't be long enough...

I have a permenant connection, but get small drop out of connection every day, 2 or 3 times... juts for a minute or so whilst the hardware reconnects.
So SH5 is currently a no for me however the games are saved. So I voted fail

Steve

Actually I havent seen anything from Ubi that says it saves on your local hard drive. They actually tout (as if its a feature) that saves are done on their servers.
There has recently been several articles that have been poping up with reviewers doing internet disconnection tests with Assassins Creed II and they have said that - "all my progress since it last autosaved was lost."

http://www.bluesnews.com/s/107530/on...t_s-online-drm

http://www.computerandvideogames.com....php?id=235290

So for me that is a double-fail!!!

My take
 

Ok. This is a first post from me on here... I had planned on buying SH5, but no longer....
My reasons:
1... I have glitchy internet... It drops a few seconds almost hourly... I would end up throwing the game in the trash if it died every time my internet flickers...
2... In the days of Internet Usage Caps, a game that constantly wants to update to allow me to play, plus wants to upload/download my saves could push me over my cap limit for the month.
3... If I move to somewhere that doesn't have internet ie cottage country, my game is now valueless...
4... Ubisoft may have good intentions, but many software companies have gone bankrupt over the years.... if the doors closed at Ubisoft, no one will be able to play this game ever again... and a bad press like this game is going to get over this protection scheme, could close the doors...
5... I don't want to create yet another useless online account... I have too many already....
6... I also may want to take my computer to a cottage for a few weeks. There's no internet in cottage country... Hell, there's no phone either... apparently there will be no SH5 there either...


On the flip side, what's to stop 7 guys from splitting on a copy of this game, loading it on their computers, and taking turns playing it from different locations? for example each guy picks a day to play or works out a timetable for when they can use the game when none of the others are playing.... I can see shift workers having a field day with that....

I am going to say FAIL. There is a better to do this. I have "Company of Hero's" by THQ. WARNING TO ALL, do NOT purchase that game. It is a very good game, but you have to be online to play it. If your system crashes before you can log out....good luck with trying to re-install a game already logged in. Need a New system, AND GAME. I got the new system, but this customer is sure to NEVER purchase ANYTHING that THQ puts its name on. So BEWARE. I am not computer smart, but if this is the same thing UBI soft is doing, it may very well be the last product it sells to this customer, and yes I am BASHING THQ, they want to protect themselves, and I want to PROTECT ME, since its MY MONEY paying for what I want. Now, I hope that wasn't too negative, and I do like SH series, have them all. Not very active in SUBSIM though, but now is the time to let the FACTS be known.

I didn't get chance to cast a vote as the poll is now closed, but I would have voted for fail.

Very good point and I'm surprised no one came up with this before.
Wonder if UBI did???????

Magic

:har:... I would hate to be the guy that gets the day when ubi do server mantainace.:damn:

Ah well....

I watching a movie and at the most nerv-dead moment the commercial kicks in...:dead:....

...so I dammed this channel and never watch it again...nobody will do....

I can life with this...the first game that allow me to go to toilet and not pee my pants :O:

Andreas

Read more.

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

Fail
 

Fail.

If I wanted to play an online game I would play an online game. I want to play single player, where I don't require internet.

Simple. This is an absolute, 100% no sale for me, the first in the whole SH series since 1996.

When I'm overseas I don't have the option of connecting to the internet 99% of the time, and when at home i'm reliant on 3G which constantly loses reception in the house and from about 14:30 until 19:00 is borderline unusable with all the kiddies playing on the web and their phones which overloads the network.

Then there is the issue of cost.