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Originally Posted by vigilante
Please consider in your country (and mine), just a few gamers buy the games. Piracy it's up & shinning due to people's low incomings and Internet education deficit.
I have the guts to admit: I first installed a cracked copy of SH3, simply because I was not aware of this game and I just wanted to check it out. Next week I've bought a legal copy.
I was at the point of making a pre-apply for SH5, when I saw this topic. Now I'll told you, with the risk of getting my ass banned: I WILL NEVER BUY SILENT HUNTER AGAIN. Not so much due to DRM, but because they HIDE this aspect and let us pay for the product.
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Greets from Bucharest. Nice to see Constanta represented here (main port of Romania for those who don't know). I go there every week for studies at UMC, who knows we might've rubbed shoulders without knowing.
They didn't hide the truth, don't be mad at them for this reason.
You won't get banned for saying you won't buy the game, don't worry. Coming from the same country IT-mentality you might understand me much better than people who grew up in the west. Piracy here is a fact of life as a young person just out of university can't expect more than 400 euros per month. The cost of living here is among the biggest in the world. Check some financial surveys if you don't believe me. Food, clothing, electronics, houses, everything here is more expensive than in the UK or US. We simply wouldn't buy a game unless we really like them. That means that either the game has perfect reviews (for example I've just bought Mass Effect and I'm loving it) or we first play cracked versions and decide for ourselves. 99.9% of those games are absolute rubbish and we'd never buy them even if we were swimming in money. We'd just use the money to play WoW.
But these games still make us upgrade PC's and spend a lot of money on them, fueling a decent IT market. If our gov would really crack down the crackers, the IT market would crash inevitably. Since Ubisoft Romania decided to use such a drakonic DRM, it's safe to say that they were "inspired" by the poor sales they get here in their own country. So yeah, you can blame us
. Permanent Online check ups really work, we really need to buy the game to play. We did it with L2D, we did it with WoW, Modern Combat 1 so yeah, it actually works for
multiplayer games. But this type of game content and DRM is new.
I am pissed that Ubisoft spent so much time answering silly questions and have only now revealed the Big Trio (VII's only, till 43, new DRM). I had already saved money for the collector's edition and I actually WANT to PLAY the freakin game. Hard to do when I'm on the move constantly and have to travel overseas for months on end. So no, I won't buy the game, because of the DRM. I don't care about privacy, or piracy I simply won't have internet
. Right now it's the same thing for me if I buy another MMO, for example Star Trek Online. Being a trekkie made things simple for me