No Connection/Dialup only/Hate DRM

[Méo]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

What's the point in rehashing this again?

You know those little pictures about 'arguing on the internet', I'm starting to think they're right. (not talking about the pool)

[Reece]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

What's the point in rehashing this again?

I'm trying to find out how many actually have hardware problems as to why they "can't" buy it!
@ CaptainHaplo, I was going to put OSP but most know it as DRM, you know what I mean!

[THE_MASK]

I didnt vote because i will wait and see how it is with other users first .

[Méo]

Originally Posted by jwilliams

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...MzZwgD9DTD6IG1

From your own link:

Among households that do not have broadband, the survey found, 38 percent said they don't need it or are not interested. Twenty-six percent said it is too expensive. Only 3.6 percent said they do not subscribe because it is not available where they live.

[Adriatico]

It's a pitty that I can not wote both for options 3. and 4.
If it is one - let it be 4.

[Méo]

Originally Posted by jwilliams

Yes. but then the 38% and 26% sudenly found out that they wanted SH5,

Ok, I give up, you win, you're right.

From the farmer to the old grandma, all of them suddenly want SH5.

[jwilliams]

Originally Posted by Méo

A lot of potential buyers with no connection or dial-up in 2010!!

You posted that as if you thought it was imposible for people not to have high speed internet.....

40% of people dont have high speed internet in the US.

[TH0R]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Is this going to be a repeat of the other 38 polls about DRM?

My prediction: 80% will select the 4th option

Well, I for one can't vote here as the primary reason is the lack of hardware to run the game.

[Méo]

Originally Posted by jwilliams

You posted that as if you thought it was imposible for people not to have high speed internet....

Just a precision:

Originally Posted by Méo

A lot of potential buyers with no connection or dial-up in 2010!!

Maybe, but I guess they were also in the impossibility to get the 1.33 GB GWX 3.0

I've said maybe

But there's no problem mate! you're right and I'm wrong.

[bookworm_020]

I don't see the reason for having to have an internet connection to play a single player game. It feels like an invasion of privacy!

[Letum]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Is this going to be a repeat of the other 38 polls about DRM?

There have not been that many. 3? 4? and most have been locked or merged.

The poll could use options for "other" and "I will buy it".

[HKLE]

Originally Posted by Reece

I'm trying to find out how many actually have hardware problems as to why they "can't" buy it!
@ CaptainHaplo, I was going to put OSP but most know it as DRM, you know what I mean!

Hi Reece

It is not so much a matter of a hardware problem or general online access - it is more a problem of the likekiness of being thrown out in the middle of a (long) mission or being restricted to areas with Internet connection.

Silent hunter experience is not short lived like a FPS - so the chance of having online problems grows with playtime within a mission. And missions tend to be rather long - mission times surely exceed one hour of playtime. Do not tell me, that you NEVER have line problems in this time period.

Second - many of us enjoy such a game while being somewhere, but not near an Internet connection. Why should we accept this fact ? (For many of us, this is the main NoGo argument)

[YukonJack_AK]

Originally Posted by jwilliams

You posted that as if you thought it was imposible for people not to have high speed internet.....

40% of people dont have high speed internet in the US.

Here in Alaska, the majority of people are still on dialup and the high speed that is offered is a joke (On a GREAT day I download at 100kbps). I have a hard enough time just being online let alone if the wife is online too. So no thanks, Ubi... I'll just be sticking with SH3/GWX for now!

[mstang67]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...MzZwgD9DTD6IG1

Just wanted to point out that the survey was taken of only 54,000 households, a pretty small fraction of the real amount.

[Reece]

Originally Posted by HKLE

mission times surely exceed one hour of playtime. Do not tell me, that you NEVER have line problems in this time period.

Oh I have quite a lot of dropouts, I'm 5.5km from exchange, the broadband limit is 5km, so depending on weather conditions the connection will drop out, that is why I put the third option, although I myself voted for number 4.