I just wrote the following and sent it to UBSoft Support

Petition letter with all our signatures on it against DRM technology might also help..

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by zulus

Petition letter with all our signatures on it against DRM technology might also help..

Nah, online petition hardly ever work. Besides, we are speaking about SH5 here. I think Ubi affords to lose some customers in this genre when they got all those mainstream titles pumping money into their pockets.

[Kapitanleutnant]

Nobody takes any notice of emails. If you care enough to write all that out, print it, stick it in an envelope and mail it to them. I'm not saying it'll make them change their mind, but one physical letter is worth a hundred angry emails.

Originally Posted by Kapitanleutnant

Nobody takes any notice of emails. If you care enough to write all that out, print it, stick it in an envelope and mail it to them. I'm not saying it'll make them change their mind, but one physical letter is worth a hundred angry emails.

Or it can be a seperate website where only names/surnames and locations could be included those who never liked and doesn;t want to see any DRM in the game.. Weak option of course but at least something.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Kapitanleutnant

Nobody takes any notice of emails. If you care enough to write all that out, print it, stick it in an envelope and mail it to them. I'm not saying it'll make them change their mind, but one physical letter is worth a hundred angry emails.

and sign your real name for cryin out loud.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Kapitanleutnant

Nobody takes any notice of emails. If you care enough to write all that out, print it, stick it in an envelope and mail it to them. I'm not saying it'll make them change their mind, but one physical letter is worth a hundred angry emails.

This is good advice. Also run your letter through a spell checker and fix the grammar. You can lose a lot of creditability that way.

[TDK1044]

Ubisoft made a Business decision to make Silent Hunter 5 an arcade game to be played online. It's their investment. Their product. Their risk.

Either it will pay off for them by attracting hoards of casual gamers, or it will backfire when the casual gamers don't materialize in anything like the anticipated numbers, and many hard core simmers will have turned their back on the game.

Time will tell.

[Brag]

I don't see how Ubi will attract hordes of anything to any of its games considering the internet wide uproar over DRM/OSP.

No mater where you look, commentary about Ubisoft is negative. They have already caused a lot of damage to themselvesin only one week after their disastrous announcement.

I don't know about games, most people who buy books base their purchasing decisions based on reviews.

Presently, Ubisoft's reputation is down in the gutter. Even by doing everything right from today onward, it will take Ubi a long time to recover.

Yesterday's release of Meet The Crew, was not exactly a master stroke.

I see a trend of mistake after mistake leading toward disaster. I'm afraid Ubi has lost it.

[Highbury]

Originally Posted by Brag

I don't see how Ubi will attract hordes of anything to any of its games considering the internet wide uproar over DRM/OSP.

Simply because thousands read these kinds of sites, but millions don't. When it comes out on Steam it will pop up in millions of peoples faces every day saying buy me, I am just a click away. To most Steam users an online DRM means nothing.

Steam averages 1.5 - 2 million online at a time.. that is alot of the "Moo"s you are always talking about.

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

Originally Posted by Dowly

Nah, online petition hardly ever work. Besides, we are speaking about SH5 here. I think Ubi affords to lose some customers in this genre when they got all those mainstream titles pumping money into their pockets.

Some ? I thought about this when they decided to end the war in 1943 moreover include only one U-boat type.. Now when DRM is announced in the game it became MOST I think.