The gawd-almighty merged DRM in Silent Hunter V thread

martes86 · 01-26-10, 07:09 PM

This is bad... maybe unnoticed in "best-selling" titles, but a major setback for titles like this one, of relatively small audience. I already see a lot of people hate the idea. This news haven't reached yet the spanish community (I've found out right now after reading a few threads here and there, and now I have to post the usual news there), but I'm guessing that a similar reaction to that seen here can be expected.

Sadly though, since it is a corporate-wide plan, I think that nothing we say here is actually going to make them change their opinions (probably would even make them withdraw support from the SH saga), they'd have to see a global impact in sales, which I seriously doubt will happen.

While I have 100% internet connection at home (14MB), I don't have internet at my Granma's. I usually take there my laptop, but she ain't a PC user, so I do stuff offline. But what if I want some games at there? Obviously, SH5 won't be one of them.
Also, what will I do when I get one of these absurd several-days internet breaks on the servers? I won't be able to play while I wait for the internet to come back?
Even more, say I've been playing like 3 hours, pure boredom well spent into my fave sim... then, the main breaker goes out. I have an UPS system, so my PC won't go out, but my router ain't plugged into that supply, so I'll lose connection. Then what? My 3 hours off the window?

These (absurd sounding, yet real in my life) situations are just a few of many possible combinations of how this new DRM stuff will go if it's as crappy as I'm thinking.

Some place quoted as reporting this, said that this was indeed a brave movement from Ubisoft... allow me to say it's a plain stupid, badly studied one... obviously they forgot to document the risks involved in such a massive change. Even Steam works better (I've like a dozen games bought there) than what we're being told about this Ubi system!

And, to finish quoting a nice fella: Meh!

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martes86 Grey Wolf Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: The Colourful Seville - Spain Posts: 971 Downloads: 18 Uploads: 0	This is bad... maybe unnoticed in "best-selling" titles, but a major setback for titles like this one, of relatively small audience. I already see a lot of people hate the idea. This news haven't reached yet the spanish community (I've found out right now after reading a few threads here and there, and now I have to post the usual news there), but I'm guessing that a similar reaction to that seen here can be expected. Sadly though, since it is a corporate-wide plan, I think that nothing we say here is actually going to make them change their opinions (probably would even make them withdraw support from the SH saga), they'd have to see a global impact in sales, which I seriously doubt will happen. While I have 100% internet connection at home (14MB), I don't have internet at my Granma's. I usually take there my laptop, but she ain't a PC user, so I do stuff offline. But what if I want some games at there? Obviously, SH5 won't be one of them. Also, what will I do when I get one of these absurd several-days internet breaks on the servers? I won't be able to play while I wait for the internet to come back? Even more, say I've been playing like 3 hours, pure boredom well spent into my fave sim... then, the main breaker goes out. I have an UPS system, so my PC won't go out, but my router ain't plugged into that supply, so I'll lose connection. Then what? My 3 hours off the window? These (absurd sounding, yet real in my life) situations are just a few of many possible combinations of how this new DRM stuff will go if it's as crappy as I'm thinking. Some place quoted as reporting this, said that this was indeed a brave movement from Ubisoft... allow me to say it's a plain stupid, badly studied one... obviously they forgot to document the risks involved in such a massive change. Even Steam works better (I've like a dozen games bought there) than what we're being told about this Ubi system! And, to finish quoting a nice fella: Meh!