Its funny seeing everyone claiming this is the end of SH5 based on principles. You know this is deja vu, I saw the same vitrol coming from PC users about Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and their treatment of the PC community. You know what happened there? IW said wa-wa-wa, took their money, and laughed all the way to the bank. #1 selling game of all time, thats what happened.
It doesn't matter how many of you cancel based on this, its going to be a drop in the bucket compared to the sales they'll get regardless of DRM. Yes it does affect a community like this one, and yes that has an effect on further iterations of the game (like a potential SH6), but it has almost zero bearing on SH5 and its profitability.
BTW, this came down as an all or nothing type of approach, all Ubisoft games will require this - its not specific to SH5 at all. So even a local boycott of one game wouldn't have any effect other than to push Ubisoft away from spending money developing sub sims. Is that what you really want?
Look, is this the best of news for SH5? Hecks no. Is it good news for SH5, nope. Is it a death nail in its coffin, I certainly hope not. Yes it sucks for those that don't have a reliable internet connection, but really this is the 21st century, gaming and reliable internet are becoming more and more intwined. And as for one offs (like what happens if my ISP does maintenance in the middle of my game?) they are what they are - is it really a killer to lose out one gaming session? Is that one lost gaming session worth sacrificing all the other gaming goodness and the other umpteen good gaming sessions?
For me this is all about hours of entertainment for the money paid. For a 50$ game, I'd expect to get at least 10 hours of enjoyable gameplay out of it (to get it above parity with a movie). Do these restrictions affect that? not really, not at all.
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