Urgh DRM AGAIN

Originally Posted by gutted

It's been like a year and a half since i last played. Decided to re-install it tonight, and can't even play it. First it wouldn't autopatch, so i downloaded and installed them manually. Now it gets past the update check, but it says it can't connect to the ubi servers.

f'n retarded DRM. This is why i dont buy UBI games anymore (SH5 was my last purchase from them).

lol .. gutted, I was in the same boat as you (no pun intended). Once I realized DRM was gone, I happened to load it up on the day the servers were being moved too and didn't know it. I spent a long time trying to figure things out before I realized what they were doing.

What blows me away is that even though we play in offline mode and "enable save game synching" is unchecked, the game STILL goes through the process of appearing to sync the save games. And if you have a lot of save games, that wait before you get to the main menu seems to take an eternity. Keeping your save games to a minimum is the only thing to reduce that, but man, if we're offline, we're offline, so why the need to sync? Just ridiculous. But like kimuraijn says "Has Ubi Done Anything right these days?"

Cheers!

[danurve]

Funny thing about steam; it's a service - utility, what ever.
I was on a Spruance class destroyer, and so steam was an aux byproduct from waste heat off the dm-turbines. Cooks used it, aux systems used it, and yet if someone wasn't carefull they could still get burned.
How little some things have changed.