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Catfish · 01-31-10, 09:30 AM

Hello,
have been away for some weeks and now this crazy Rise-of-flight-stuff is also done to Silent Hunter V ?!
At least i understand now why they did not tell something about it earlier

With this DRM they know exactly from where you played, with what IP-adress, at what time. As soon as their registering server breaks down you are not able to play, not even single missions - easy as that - happened before with RoF. At the same time any patch is automatically being force-downloaded to your harddisk as soon as you want to start the game. Wanted to play for 15 minutes ? Forget it, load down the new 700 m patch first, apply, restart PC. The patch is broken, not able to play ? Wait for the next one.

Maybe someone should tell UBIsoft that this kind of DRM is most probably NOT ALLOWED IN THE EU, because it violates the basic law of customer protection of the EU, let alone it is against what is being written down in Germany's basic law book, the Grundgesetz.
I know this is still a grey zone, with companies surging ahead without looking at the laws.
Same with "not being able to resell the game".
The latter is certainly easy to circumvent, log-in and register with a new fantasy account you just made up, and resell this eMail-adress with the game.
But the thought of this crap alone !

I know it's not the devs, but what are those ******** marketing sons of goat desecrators thinking ? This is not Mickeysoft server architecture, or SAP.
This is a bloody GAME ! GET REAL !

Greetings,
Catfish

P.S. I recently bought RoF, because the dev team announced to finally drop the online requirement. I would not have bought it without this announcement.

01-31-10, 09:30 AM	#78
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,800 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Hello, have been away for some weeks and now this crazy Rise-of-flight-stuff is also done to Silent Hunter V ?! At least i understand now why they did not tell something about it earlier With this DRM they know exactly from where you played, with what IP-adress, at what time. As soon as their registering server breaks down you are not able to play, not even single missions - easy as that - happened before with RoF. At the same time any patch is automatically being force-downloaded to your harddisk as soon as you want to start the game. Wanted to play for 15 minutes ? Forget it, load down the new 700 m patch first, apply, restart PC. The patch is broken, not able to play ? Wait for the next one. Maybe someone should tell UBIsoft that this kind of DRM is most probably NOT ALLOWED IN THE EU, because it violates the basic law of customer protection of the EU, let alone it is against what is being written down in Germany's basic law book, the Grundgesetz. I know this is still a grey zone, with companies surging ahead without looking at the laws. Same with "not being able to resell the game". The latter is certainly easy to circumvent, log-in and register with a new fantasy account you just made up, and resell this eMail-adress with the game. But the thought of this crap alone ! I know it's not the devs, but what are those ******** marketing sons of goat desecrators thinking ? This is not Mickeysoft server architecture, or SAP. This is a bloody GAME ! GET REAL ! Greetings, Catfish P.S. I recently bought RoF, because the dev team announced to finally drop the online requirement. I would not have bought it without this announcement.