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Originally Posted by Méo
The network must somewhere have been efficient because this game has known unprecedented growth & success.
Now if you guys don't want to buy SH5 because it requires an internet connection and you think it should not, it's your choice, but it's another debate than what my point was about.
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My point was:
Internet accessibility & reliability don't actually prevent millions of people around the world from playing PC games.
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Of course they are efficient now, Blizzard has spent years and loads of money to tweak and maintain the servers. Take a look at some threads from the first years in the WoW forums. I played WoW the first year so i have some idea what i'm talking about.
Another thing is Ubisofts extremely poor support. There has been problems with SH4 online for half a year now and they still haven't bothered to fix that. Not to mention the downtime on their other services. This is the MAIN consern and this is a problem every Ubi customer has to endure from now on because all major titles will include the OSP. There WILL be alot of problems the first year minimum untill they have tweaked the service to optimum for a surtain amount of connections online. Think of all the hundreds of thousands connections that has to be connected at the same time 24 hours a day. It will take a HUGE amount of broadband and it definatly needs some extreme server network globally. Sit down and think about it. And don't compare this to WoW cause their servers are optimum but it did take Blizzard years to get there. The big problem isn't the home connections in general but how Ubisoft are going to set this up, not to mention where. I can imagine how good my ping will be when i'm here in Norway and have to connect to some server in Canada.
If i had 100% thrust in Ubisoft and i was surtain this was going to work well from the start i would have bought their games and give it a shot. But for now i have zero thrust in Ubi and i'm saying this out of my own experiences over the last 20 years in the gaming industry.