Ubisoft has a history with SHIII and SHIV of releasing unfinished, buggy games that required significant patching in the first year after release. With SH5, they released an unfinished, buggy game that also requires that you play it with a permanent internet connection, using unreliable ubisoft servers.
Early indications are that the target demographic (casual gamers) are not buying this game in large numbers, and neither are many of the franchise core supporters.
Bottom line....cluster f**k! A marketing disaster.
This arrogant Publisher is getting exactly what it deserves.