Orbit, don't worry too much. Ubi will have to have an off line mode if they don't want to go broke.

They will soon hear the snap of our wallets shutting closed. :up:

Was this the first thread about this?

I think this is a thread resulting from the merging of approximately 3 billion other threads on this subject. I could be wrong, I lost count somewhere in the mid 2 billions.

this was one of the first threads about the DRM and it had about 4 other threads that were added in/merged along the way but the majority of it is the subject matter so the size of this thread is mainly due to the topic and how strong the opinions are about it

Ah its just started for it's only 61 pages sofar. :ping: :arrgh!:

Er 62 starting with mine. lol

By the end of March I bet a beer it will be over one hundred and sixty.

No doubt, maybe more. :arrgh!: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y11...n/a11101-2.gif

If Ubi goes forward with this as an entirely on-line game DRM it would seem to me that the community might go back to the drawing board and work to further revise, improve, upgrade SH3. I could see the amazing talents of the GWX team, as originally comprised or in a new guise, pushing the modding envelop beyond their latest fine product.

With advances like the Open Hatch, Diesel Room interior, perhaps some of Tomi's stuff, improved weather (snow, drizzle when leaving port, etc), revised contact with headquarters, ever better ships and subs, the Letters from Home project...add your own thoughts...I could see an advanced suitable substitute for SHV that would satisfy most players. I'm not a modder and don't have the fine skills they have and would understand that the original team would want to get out of the pressures and commitment that would be required, but there's always room for new talent to emerge. Perhaps with some modding tutorials the modding community could help newby modders along - who knows what might emerge?

What I'm afraid could (not 'would' but 'could') happen is that as the community becomes disenchanted with an on-line only SHV, it could begin to drift away from SH entirely, settle in with some other game and this whole thing might collapse. While I'm grateful for UBI for SH I think they will be destroying a world they helped create.

This should be mandatory reading for marketing students.

What we do know is that the content of these pages is spilling all over the internet. Lurkers from all over are reading this. We might not realize this, we have started something bigger than Ubi's billions of euros. I salute all of you authors of these pages :salute::salute::salute::salute::salute::salute::s alute:

Someone loan me about a trillion euros and I'll start the bidding for buying out UBISOFT. :D

Course I'll bribe the share holders a little. :arrgh!:


Well I can dream can't I? :D

Hey we should all put our money in and hire our own devs!!:yeah: Hmmm, what sort of protection should we use?:hmmm:

I'm not sayin'. Nope, not gonna tackle that one.:rotfl2:


Oh, you meant for the game.

I know a guy named Guido. He loves his protection money.

I was gonna say "depends on where they've been" but, hey...

NO OFFENSE DEVS I love you it's only a funny. :D

Depends if they're docking in the usual pen or attempting incursion of a foreign harbour, hey?

No he's not. That's why I waited over a year or more before I bought it. By then it was released in a gold edition with everything and no Boontybox.

CW :arrgh!: