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Originally Posted by Nisgeis
Of those who voted in the recent poll, 70% said they would buy it if the DRM were removed, so the DRM is the biggest turn off at the moment.
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Well, admittedly, the DRM will remain a deal breaker for me, but I did not want to start another flaming war for something that presently hardly justifies it. Of course an
online DRM that is forced onto it
despite not really needing a permanent connection for SP is generally bad, but a game that misses or distorts so many of the beloved features of its own predecessor SHIII, features that are kind of crucial for me to "call it a simulation" closely resembling the Atlantic sub warfare of WW2, has in my opinion bigger issues.
Before the product content is straightened out by devs or modders, I just feel my time is better spent with something long enough on the market to be well characterized, tested and considered excellent by a big fan community. Once SHV reaches excellence, and makes me think it can replace my supermodded SHIII, I will surely worry about the DRM again. But either it's in the discount bin by then, or I get so tempted by it excelling over SHIII so greatly that I can barely resist. Though I assume the latter probably will never happen with direct a game sequel nowadays (i.e. not skipping one).
Anyway, for the time being the Ubi guys maybe ought to get a 3rd chance (1st was SHIV for me, 2nd the SHV initial release). There is no harm in keeping an eye on this and watching where it goes from now on. Ubi Bucharest have shown more than twice that know how to do good to excellent submarine sims of WW2, but they also screwed up twice now. Let's see what the next result will be? Essentially they can only improve this situation presently...