What's next?

[Chef]

Originally Posted by IanC

... Silent Hunter 5 looked so sweet and sexy, untill we noticed the adam's apple.

Is that 5 'o'clock shadow?

Activision killed Call of Duty for the PC this way. The new game won't allow independent servers which means no mods and no clans. You get thrown into a server with a bunch of strangers where the game is hosted by another person. If he leaves, the game ends and you all get thrown into another anonymous server of strangers. Welcome to the brave new world ruled by consoles. The PC game, especially the PC sim is a dying breed.

[UrPeaceKeeper]

Originally Posted by Chef

Is that 5 'o'clock shadow?

Activision killed Call of Duty for the PC this way. The new game won't allow independent servers which means no mods and no clans. You get thrown into a server with a bunch of strangers where the game is hosted by another person. If he leaves, the game ends and you all get thrown into another anonymous server of strangers. Welcome to the brave new world ruled by consoles. The PC game, especially the PC sim is a dying breed.

Did you ever play CoD MW2? You are right, the game is hosted by a bunch of strangers, but you yourself can invite people to your group so long as they are in your steam profile as friends. Once you do that, you are guarenteed to play with them and if the teams allow on their side. There was a clan of 5 that stacked one side of a server. If the game host leaves the automated servers automatically search for a new host and the game continues as if the person never left. It's VERY annoying as often times hosts leave when they get frustrated by getting the smackdown from some trash talking 12 year old kid.

I hate it for the other reasons you posted, IE, no mods to fix stupid game play implementations and the absolutely horrible lag associated with playing the game. They did an ok job of producing the multiplayer, but I'm a bit pissed that I paid for the game in advance and was forced to wait 3 more days after my buddies got it for Xbox to even play the game and then on top of it, they basically told the PC community to F off. What happened was us PC gamers paid 60.00$ for a half arsed PC port and 3 hours of single player campaign... LAME.

I'm still bitter about that.

I haven't read anything about the DRM, but from what I gather, it's not good and frankly it will prevent me from buying it. I left WoW because I could not afford reoccuring subscription fee's while I'm a student at the University, no amount of nifty features will ever make me buy SH5 untill my finances are sorted out. Should funding allow, maybe I will purchase but I will approach it cautiosly. If not, SH4 is great as is SH3 with GWX. No skin off of my back, by the time Ubi has the kinks worked out of 5 we'll have full interriors for SH4 and 3 anyway and they will probably look a heck of a lot better.

[danurve]

I dunno what's worse, all this drm news or my 401k statement.