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Originally Posted by kylania
This. Though I have been unable to play the first two weekends, and I did lose a day of saves, but since the initial weekends the DRM has been quite unobtrusive, certainly not enough to explain the frothing of the anti-SH5 crowd any longer.
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That is all great while you can play and I certainly do not wish you any issues in being able to play when you want/can, but... It does not matter how reliable the Ubisoft online authentication is, indirectly the always online requirement will stop people from playing at the times they want/can.
I have moved since the tale of woe below, but I am sure many people are experiencing the same issues I did and while career wise we do not have to move and our house we are building should have the same ADSL broadband that I currently have, there is no guarantee.
I live in Australia, 20 minutes outside Canberra, our national capital. But when it came to getting an internet connection that meant little. I had the choice of 1 ISP and the connection was wireless as the telephone lines were pair gain i.e. where the telco overloads the copper with services in lieu of actually installing adequate infrastructure which our national telco Telecom is infamous for.
Here I was having just arrived in our nations capital, all be it just outside, and I had to wait 7 weeks to get my internet connection.
7 weeks later all keen to surf the net and catch up on the world as I know it, but the very next day there is a slight issue. The internet is not available till 08.30 and this happens the next day and the next where the connection was only available starting from 07.30 to 09.00. Upon following this up with my ISP I find that the wireless towers do not have enough battery capacity to cope with the winter overcast days. This took 9 months to be rectified.
I was to find out that this was the least of my problems with this ISP. There were regular outages of 1-4 hours every 2-4 days and 4-12 hours every 2-3 weeks. The longest outage we had was 3 days. The network was so overloaded the 1500k connection would often be sub 400k.
As bad as this ISP was if it was not for this community oriented ISP I would have had to use a 56k dial service. Remember this is in Australia and a mere 20 minutes outside out national capital.
What of the 21 weeks (5.1 months) over 2.5 years I would not have been able to play because I was awaiting a new internet connection because we had to move due to work? This time does not count the extreme 7 weeks above!
Before dismissing peoples angst at UBI's DRM (which is not about stopping piracy but the 2nd hand market) consider that they may not be as fortunate as you and cannot play the games they purchased when ever they want/need.
Such as those
"Australian gamers unable to play Settlers 7 due to DRM woes"
I doubt the anyone would accept this type of DRM on their books, even electronic or audio one?
If Ubi were selling books they would have the Public Library outlawed
