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Originally Posted by Don_D_Dwain (Post 1275429)

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.

The easy solution to your CoH complaint is just play with your disk in the drive, no need for an internet connection at all, unless of course you are playing multiplayer... Try it, you'll see what I mean. If SHV was like this I would buy it no problem.

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Originally Posted by Von Taticus (Post 1259670)

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...

This is unfortunately what is going to happen, it will be like playing a subscription MMO, only without the MM. Maintenance periods are a pain in the backside, who the hell wants a single-player game with such downtimes? Not many people I'm guessing. Bad move Ubi, bad, bad move.

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Originally Posted by 609_Avatar (Post 1275792)

Agreed. The only thing holding me back is this OSP rubbish, because I can pretty much guess how it's going to turn out.

Re. Topic.
Fail. I object the idea that a piece of "add-in" software dictates playing- and thus online time.

Fail...for one good reason.

Remember the movie, "Westworld"? Where absolutely nothing can go worng?

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Originally Posted by razark (Post 1275692)

Well its all good that that is what Ubisoft says. But what they say and what actually happens is two different things.

According to this article:

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

They actually tested Assassins Creed II (which has the same sort of DRM that SH5 will have).

"So I tried a different test: start the game while online, play a little, then unplug my net cable. This is the same as what happens if your net connection drops momentarily, your router is rebooted, or the game loses its connection to Ubisoft's 'Master servers'. The game stopped, and I was dumped back to a menu screen - all my progress since it last autosaved was lost. "

So personally I think I would prefer to believe the 3rd party reviewers over the Ubisoft propaganda. How many times have we heard the developers (whos interest is in selling more products) tout how well their systems/programs run only to find out that they never reach their promises.