All those not buying SH5 please move along.

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Except for when the server goes down. Or when there's a power outage. Or when your travelling on a plane/train. Or when the company decides not to support that game anymore. Or when you move into an area without good broadband service. But other than that, without limitation.

Or when a hurricane comes through your area. **** half of the southeat was without reliable internet for weeks after Katrina. I didn't even have electricity but played a lot of SH3 thanks to a generator.

[karamazovnew]

Originally Posted by Kapitan_Phillips

Phasers at dawn, sir!

Make it so...

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Originally Posted by trenken

Thats your opinion. Many of us that own some DRM games have found some nice advantages to it. For me the primary one would be I love not having my save files on my machine. They are protected on a server so that if my machine decides to meltdown on me, I dont look months or years of progress. Big fan of that.

So then why not a choice to save them online or not. Maybe I hate my save games and I want them to get deleted by accident. My HDD has proven MUCH more reliable than my internet connection and I would bet a stack of hundreds yours is as well.

How many times has your HDD failed? How about your internet?

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Originally Posted by trenken

Excuse me? Ive debated it, you just dont like what I have to say so you're pretending im not adressing it, which is very mature by the way.

Did I not just say to you regardless of what you want to post about how few people you say are on broadband, why are there next to no modern games you can play on dial up?

There are millions of people that love records and own record players, why cant I find any in stores anymore?

I rest my case.

So how come no one is forcing all music to only be playable while connected to the internet?

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Originally Posted by cherbert

Well I for one am getting sick of this place now. If Neil wants to continue to allow this nonsense them I'm gone. I strongly believe he is making a big mistake allowing this to happen in this forum.

Create a DRM discussion forum or restrict discussions to a single topic for god sake!

I really doubt for one second UBI come here - and I really don't think they give a flying *** what you all think. They probably have invested millions in this new technology and as others have said - its the future and there is no going back.

We will miss your 64 posts. Not that I recall ever reading one.

[Rip]

Originally Posted by karamazovnew

Maybe we shouldn't use the word DRM. We've been using games with DRM for a looong time. I want DRM for SH5. I don't want OSP SO Ubi, please bring back Starforce

Sad to say but I too would prefer Starforce. At least I could install it in a VM or something and at least run it offline.

[GlobalExplorer]

The forum is moving in a very peculiar direction, people now post these threads to be in the center of attention.

[HundertzehnGustav]

Or to get a good laugh, between the blows they feel have been/are/will be dealt to their dreams of a SHIII 2.0

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by trenken

I dont know a single person that does not have a constant connection to the internet,

You are assuming that people only have one computer. I happen to have two in my home office. One is hooked up to the internets tubes and the other one (my game playing computer) is not.

So yes, I do have constant connection, just not on my gaming system.

I doubt I am the only one with two computers, one for internet and one for gaming.

"what if DRM works"

ok lets go with the fantasy that it will work perfectly as planned and UBI servers are never busy or overloaded and never need service or repair or break down.

this means only people from big cities can play the game because nobody else has the reliable stable internet service the game manufacturers think we do.

of these big cities many ISP will throttle your internet useage and start charging exorbinant premiums on all data transfers after a certain limit is reached. these fees can be as bad as those 900 number phone lines i am told.

so you figure if this thing works as planned and you eliminate ANY possible sales to rural or small towns and completely forget anything outside the cities. now how many customers did you just exclude from buying your games even if they want it as bad as an alcoholic wants a bottle.

but thats only if DRM works perfectly exactly the way its supposed to


oh, and lets say you do prevent any pirates from pirating the game but you just eliminated your customers from buying it too

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by TDK1044

You've made 64 posts here in the 5 years you've been a member. Feel free to join the Ubi Forum. You won't be missed.

Be nice

[Subnuts]

Originally Posted by cherbert

Can all the whiners who are not buying SH5 please leave and go back to the SH3 and SH4 forums you really are polluting the threads in here.

Another lame "put up or shut up" post.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by karamazovnew

Make it so...

[karamazovnew]

It's not a coincidence Jim...

Actually, the only problem of Voyager, which is by far my favorite Star Trek series, is that it doesn't have any worthy quote. "Please state the nature of the medical emergency" just isn't the same as "He's dead, Jim".

[John Channing]

I like the idea of DRM. In fact I love it!

JCC