I have been playing SH3 quite a while now and never bothered to upgrade to Version 4 (the thought of the war in the Pacific never tickled my fancy - it seems that Ubi realised that it did a knock in their sales, by adding the Atlantic again).
When I saw that SH5 was due to be released and it was on pre-order I was very tempted to get this one. I liked all the new features and the new game play.
Then I saw "Permanent internet connetion required" my intentions were hit by a couple of torpedos and that sank SH5 for me.
Apparently Rise of Flight tried the same thing, but quickly saw their error of their ways. I hope that Ubi will come to the same conclusion.
For me no SH5 until this DRM business has been done away with. Pity to say this. As a fellow South African mentioned in this thread, bandwidth is a problem in SA and to have a permanent internet access at 384kb, I don't think so.
