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[BlueJ]

Originally Posted by Ships-R-Us

The only thing that matters in all this poop is "what is". There is offline play, and Ubisoft will abandon the DRM thing. The current offline play thing will even be perfected eventually..........Christ Almighty it has not been even a week and progress is being made toward the arena of player independance. Indepedance from Ubisoft is absolutely inevitable regardless of how and where it came about............

There already is:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...76&postcount=1

Happy times:
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Meanwhile....

Eurogamer Review
Silent Hunter 5

Das booted off the server
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/si...unter-5-review

[609_Avatar]

All I can say about all of this is I'm really glad I haven't bought the game. I'm on the fence about some of the choices made for this version and quite happy about others. The over whelming majority of those that say they like it is because of its "potential" and not because of what it is now. Saying that's just the way it is because 3 & 4 were that way does not make it any more palatable at all and is just a sad statement of what we have come to accept. I won't purchase and support the DRM scheme chosen but if this is true (and I have no way of knowing either way and am not calling you in to question about it):

Originally Posted by BlueJ

There already is:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...76&postcount=1

that is just incredibly sad. Pirates get to "enjoy" the game when legit buyers can't. Also, imagine the poor sod who is new to this genre, and whom UBI has claimed to focus this release on, when they try to play this game in the state it is in... they have no clue about sites like this or that it can be modded or how to even implement mods. Do you honestly think they will come away with a positive impression of this type of game and this series in general? I don't, and I think that hurts the future of this series more than people like myself who have taken a stand against supporting OSP or even the pirates that hack the game. So in my mind, the only ones that are ultimately at fault for the fate of the game is Ubisoft because they have targeted the game towards the casual player but then give no adequate means of educating them on how to play the game (this all based on the reviews I have read to date) and released the game with too many bugs that the casual gamer will just not put up with, unlike the sort of folks who frequent sites like this and can be patient for modders to help fix things. Add to their frustration of having to deal with the OSP issues that are now at hand and you have an extremely negative imagine of the game and the company that released it. Great way to expand the game to the masses... and I see that as the main reason for its' ultimate demise, if that does in fact come to pass.