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Der Teddy Bar · 01-29-10, 06:50 PM

It does not matter how reliable the Ubisoft online authentication is, indirectly the always online requirement will stop me from playing at the times I want.

I live in Australia, 20 minutes outside Canberra, our national capital. But when it came to getting an internet connection that meant little.

I had the choice of 1 ISP and the connection was wireless as the telephone lines were pair gain i.e. where the telco overloads the copper with services in lieu of actually installing adequate infrastructure which our national telco Telecom is infamous for.

Here I was having just arrived in our nations capital, all be it just outside, and I had to wait 7 weeks to get my internet connection.

7 weeks later all keen to surf the net and catch up on the world as I know it, but the very next day there is a slight issue. The internet is not available till 08.30 and this happens the next day and the next where the connection was only available starting from 07.30 to 09.00. Upon following this up with my ISP I find that the wireless towers do not have enough battery capacity to cope with the winter overcast days. This took 9 months to be rectified.

I was to find out that this was the least of my problems with this ISP.

There were regular outages of 1-4 hours every 2-4 days and 4-12 hours every 2-3 weeks. The longest outage we had was 3 days. The network was so overloaded the 1500k connection would often be sub 400k.

As bad as this ISP was if it was not for this community oriented ISP I would have had to use a 56k dial service. Remember this is in Australia and a mere 20 minutes outside out national capital.

What of my saved games on Ubisofts server? As noted above my ISP is flakier than a concussed blonde. Will I loose several hours of play because my ISP had yet another glitch and stopped me uploading the saved game or cut it off 1/2 way through?

What of having a internet connection? My wife was a Customs Detector Dog handler and as such we moved a bit in 3 years. During this time, not counting the extreme 7 weeks above, I was waiting for a broadband connection for a total of 21 weeks or 5.1 months!

Ubisoft will add salt to the wound that when I so not have a internet connection by not allowing me to play a game I purchased.

The myth of Piracy and its impact is an excuse companies like Ubisoft cling to so they can explain away why their sales are not what they expect or promised on that AAA title. It stops those ugly questions of why did you release such a poorly designed and/or buggy game, why is the game lacking any depth and fails to deliver on the marketing. Why is have you not fixed the design flaws and other problems from SH3 in SH4. Why is this full priced game nothing more than a minor expansion pack?

Start looking after your customers by firstly not punishing them with DRM that does nothing to reduce piracy and only hurts legitimate customers and start delivering quality products and supporting a game past the cursory 3-4 patches.

I would also like to add that game reviews need to be better. I loved SH3 but there is no way that even after the super mods that it is a 100/100 game as was the score Subsim gave the original release. It is my view that this leads to stagnation of the franchise as why would Ubi spend money fixing up the poor AI, the Tiger Tank U-boat (trade mark pending) etc when the game is already 100/100?

Always online? Thanks but no thanks.

01-29-10, 06:50 PM	#244
Der Teddy Bar Blade Master Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,388 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	It does not matter how reliable the Ubisoft online authentication is, indirectly the always online requirement will stop me from playing at the times I want. I live in Australia, 20 minutes outside Canberra, our national capital. But when it came to getting an internet connection that meant little. I had the choice of 1 ISP and the connection was wireless as the telephone lines were pair gain i.e. where the telco overloads the copper with services in lieu of actually installing adequate infrastructure which our national telco Telecom is infamous for. Here I was having just arrived in our nations capital, all be it just outside, and I had to wait 7 weeks to get my internet connection. 7 weeks later all keen to surf the net and catch up on the world as I know it, but the very next day there is a slight issue. The internet is not available till 08.30 and this happens the next day and the next where the connection was only available starting from 07.30 to 09.00. Upon following this up with my ISP I find that the wireless towers do not have enough battery capacity to cope with the winter overcast days. This took 9 months to be rectified. I was to find out that this was the least of my problems with this ISP. There were regular outages of 1-4 hours every 2-4 days and 4-12 hours every 2-3 weeks. The longest outage we had was 3 days. The network was so overloaded the 1500k connection would often be sub 400k. As bad as this ISP was if it was not for this community oriented ISP I would have had to use a 56k dial service. Remember this is in Australia and a mere 20 minutes outside out national capital. What of my saved games on Ubisofts server? As noted above my ISP is flakier than a concussed blonde. Will I loose several hours of play because my ISP had yet another glitch and stopped me uploading the saved game or cut it off 1/2 way through? What of having a internet connection? My wife was a Customs Detector Dog handler and as such we moved a bit in 3 years. During this time, not counting the extreme 7 weeks above, I was waiting for a broadband connection for a total of 21 weeks or 5.1 months! Ubisoft will add salt to the wound that when I so not have a internet connection by not allowing me to play a game I purchased. The myth of Piracy and its impact is an excuse companies like Ubisoft cling to so they can explain away why their sales are not what they expect or promised on that AAA title. It stops those ugly questions of why did you release such a poorly designed and/or buggy game, why is the game lacking any depth and fails to deliver on the marketing. Why is have you not fixed the design flaws and other problems from SH3 in SH4. Why is this full priced game nothing more than a minor expansion pack? Start looking after your customers by firstly not punishing them with DRM that does nothing to reduce piracy and only hurts legitimate customers and start delivering quality products and supporting a game past the cursory 3-4 patches. I would also like to add that game reviews need to be better. I loved SH3 but there is no way that even after the super mods that it is a 100/100 game as was the score Subsim gave the original release. It is my view that this leads to stagnation of the franchise as why would Ubi spend money fixing up the poor AI, the Tiger Tank U-boat (trade mark pending) etc when the game is already 100/100? Always online? Thanks but no thanks.