My two cents... keep the change.

[Tarnsman]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

I can comiserate with the first part of that, sure, second part, not so sure; they didn't need to put online requirements in, but, owe the customer not to put it in? (Yes, yes, i know, they shot themselves in the foot and all other comments of the like will appear, but not the point i'm trying to make).
Alot of people nowadays are commenting moreso on the fact that it's buggy, the online requirements are a secondary issue. Or so i gather from posts.

Well lets put it this way. Ubi charged full price for a software product that you can not own. You cannot enjoy it as you see fit eg. on a laptop on a flight or a country without stable internet or if you pay for your internet usage time. You cannot dispose of the disk as you wish by selling it or giving it to a friend. You may not be able to play it ten years from now on legacy hardware. What you bought is a licencse to log into Ubisofts's servers to play SH5 as long as Ubi supports it. However long or short that may be. Considering that your uses of SH5 is much less than common to the industry at that price point -- I say yes Ubi owed their customers more than what it delivered under the DRM scheme they chose.