serial numbers to install and play and CD-in requirements are fine; always online during the gameplay is not. I couldn't play a whole day yesterday because the DRM. I got VERY angry and intended to ship the game back to amazon..today it works luckily, but until the next DDoS attack? why paying customer is being punished? they could've come up with something better to protect their rights because this is obviously not working very well
BTW, I also bought Arma2 together with SH5 - why is it that the game doesn't have any online DRM and CD doesn't even have to be in the slot to play the game? Still sells well I guess? Those guys still make $$$ OK apparently? Honest folks BUYING it, that's why.
Why companies like UBI think that if they don't protect the product with ridiculously restrictive DRM that we'll ALL automatically steal it? What a hell of assumption. We ARE NOT all thieves. There is not a single product on my PC that I wouldn't pay for, and yes I paid for my Photoshop CS4 as well, and that costs way more then *******n copies of all the Silent Hunter series altogether.... I repeat, we, paying customers, are not all thieves. But UBI assumes that we are. Crap. Last game I ever bought from them if they'll insist that we'll steal the product if we can.... there are honest people around, people who BUY software, not steal it. We, customers, are not thieves. Those who use cracked games are, but they wouldn't buy the product anyway, so you can't talk about lost sales....the UBI tech support guy told me yesterday that their last game (I don't remember the title) turned out only 8% of paying customers so that's why the new online DRM. OK, 8% of whom? - it's eight percent of the world, not eight percent of potential customers. They got their math all ********n wrong.
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