The gawd-almighty merged DRM in Silent Hunter V thread

ironkross · 01-26-10, 10:33 PM

Wow, so now we're at the point where we can look back at Starforce as "the good old days"! ?

"Players will be required to login to their Ubi.com account to authenticate each and every time they wish to play--and there will be no support at all for offline play."
I'm connected 24/7 but I'm not sure about 24/365. On those rare occasions when I'm disconnected from the internet, that is when I'm glad to have a pc game to play.

"What they're trying to do is stop people from going to GameStop to buy $50 games for $35, none of which goes into the publishers' pockets. If DRM permits only a few installs, that minimizes the number of times a game can be resold."
I almost never sell my old games. SHII sits up on the shelf even though I never play it.

"One very interesting benefit of this new account management system is how it handles save games. Your saves will be stored remotely on Ubi servers, allowing access to your game saves on any machine."
The game saves being stored online worry me the most. Conceivably this could wipe out hours of play for nothing.
So on the first two points theoretically I should have no problem, the third point, possibly more likely, so I think "OK, I'll try this game and if I'm not satisfied with online DRM, I've learned a lesson and won't buy another like it."
Then again, and just on principle, I think I may not buy SHV at all. If enough people don't buy it, Ubisoft will get the message; but I don't believe I would never regret not buying it either.

01-26-10, 10:33 PM	#11
ironkross Lieutenant Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Seneca, SC, USA Posts: 251 Downloads: 64 Uploads: 0	Wow, so now we're at the point where we can look back at Starforce as "the good old days"! ? "Players will be required to login to their Ubi.com account to authenticate each and every time they wish to play--and there will be no support at all for offline play." I'm connected 24/7 but I'm not sure about 24/365. On those rare occasions when I'm disconnected from the internet, that is when I'm glad to have a pc game to play. "What they're trying to do is stop people from going to GameStop to buy $50 games for $35, none of which goes into the publishers' pockets. If DRM permits only a few installs, that minimizes the number of times a game can be resold." I almost never sell my old games. SHII sits up on the shelf even though I never play it. "One very interesting benefit of this new account management system is how it handles save games. Your saves will be stored remotely on Ubi servers, allowing access to your game saves on any machine." The game saves being stored online worry me the most. Conceivably this could wipe out hours of play for nothing. So on the first two points theoretically I should have no problem, the third point, possibly more likely, so I think "OK, I'll try this game and if I'm not satisfied with online DRM, I've learned a lesson and won't buy another like it." Then again, and just on principle, I think I may not buy SHV at all. If enough people don't buy it, Ubisoft will get the message; but I don't believe I would never regret not buying it either. __________________ If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

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