Was It This Bad?

FIREWALL · 01-29-10, 04:53 PM

It's gotten the worst after the DRM bomb was dropped.

01-29-10, 05:21 PM

look at it this way, if you werent here for the others at least your here now to say you were there when we set a new record for the most pitchforks and torches mob we ever had

stabiz · 01-29-10, 05:26 PM

I wasnt here for the launch of SH3, but it was not so bad when SH4 launched. The bugs and strange performance issues got some press, but people were mostly positive.

DRM-Gate is by far the most lively thing I have seen outside the General Topics forum.

FIREWALL · 01-29-10, 05:30 PM

Consumers need to remember AGAIN that they dictate the terms on a purchase.

Not the seller. Not if they want to make a sale.

GM is learning that. So is Chrysler and now Toyota.

It's about time a Game co figures that out if they want to stay alive.

01-29-10, 06:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

Consumers need to remember AGAIN that they dictate the terms on a purchase.

Not the seller. Not if they want to make a sale.

GM is learning that. So is Chrysler and now Toyota.

It's about time a Game co figures that out if they want to stay alive.

This is only true where there is competition. Last time I looked nobody else is producing graphic intensive and moddable submarine games.

Monopoly's essentially own the market and the consumer can like it or lump it.

I intend to lump it...

Letum · 01-29-10, 06:49 PM

Lumping it is the competition.

Bubblehead1980 · 01-29-10, 07:16 PM

I was not around for release of SH 3 or 4, I imagine the only real controversy was the switch from U boats to US fleetboats, for the U boats guys anyway.

DRM is the big issue, just wrong on so many levels.

Highbury · 01-29-10, 07:48 PM

Wasn't here for 3's release, but we didn't have much time to bitch before SH4 came out...

If I recall the process was something like 6 months of:

"No way will they make a 4th.. no money in it.."

"Hey I hear they are gonna make a 4th."

"Confirmed they are making a 4th!"

(Insert various sausage vs ice cream fights here)

"OMG it's gone Gold already!?!"

"I just played it...."

GREY WOLF 3 · 01-29-10, 06:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

It's gotten the worst after the DRM bomb was dropped.

It use to be called a hedgehog

ichso · 01-29-10, 06:41 PM

I think many people should be a bit more relaxed about this whole thing.
If the whole DRM issue really proves to be this annoying as everybody is afraid of, then just don't buy the game. Its not like these boards would seize to exist or that there aren't any other very good SH titles to be played.
And I don't mean it in this usual 'like it or shut up' kind of way.

The thing is this, I doubt that UBI will ditch DRM just because the same 30 people are stating their opinion here over and over again.
Maybe if there was a larger petition of some kind, that could perhaps get them to rethink and save them some of their customers that would otherwise turn away, dissapointed.

01-29-10, 04:53 PM	#1
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01-29-10, 05:26 PM	#3
stabiz Silent Hunter Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Norway Posts: 4,224 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	I wasnt here for the launch of SH3, but it was not so bad when SH4 launched. The bugs and strange performance issues got some press, but people were mostly positive. DRM-Gate is by far the most lively thing I have seen outside the General Topics forum. __________________

01-29-10, 05:30 PM	#4
FIREWALL Eternal Patrol Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CATALINA IS. SO . CAL USA Posts: 10,108 Downloads: 511 Uploads: 0	Consumers need to remember AGAIN that they dictate the terms on a purchase. Not the seller. Not if they want to make a sale. GM is learning that. So is Chrysler and now Toyota. It's about time a Game co figures that out if they want to stay alive. __________________ RIP FIREWALL I Play GWX. Silent Hunter Who ??? Last edited by Onkel Neal; 01-29-10 at 05:32 PM. Reason: Languge

01-29-10, 06:49 PM	#6
Letum Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: York - UK Posts: 6,079 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	Lumping it is the competition. __________________

01-29-10, 06:41 PM	#10
ichso Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Germany's oldest city alive Posts: 1,066 Downloads: 57 Uploads: 0	I think many people should be a bit more relaxed about this whole thing. If the whole DRM issue really proves to be this annoying as everybody is afraid of, then just don't buy the game. Its not like these boards would seize to exist or that there aren't any other very good SH titles to be played. And I don't mean it in this usual 'like it or shut up' kind of way. The thing is this, I doubt that UBI will ditch DRM just because the same 30 people are stating their opinion here over and over again. Maybe if there was a larger petition of some kind, that could perhaps get them to rethink and save them some of their customers that would otherwise turn away, dissapointed. __________________ My Subskins: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=164169

01-29-10, 05:21 PM	#2
Webster Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	look at it this way, if you werent here for the others at least your here now to say you were there when we set a new record for the most pitchforks and torches mob we ever had

01-29-10, 07:16 PM	#7
Bubblehead1980 Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Florida USA Posts: 7,130 Downloads: 606 Uploads: 44	I was not around for release of SH 3 or 4, I imagine the only real controversy was the switch from U boats to US fleetboats, for the U boats guys anyway. DRM is the big issue, just wrong on so many levels.

01-29-10, 07:48 PM	#8
Highbury The Old Man Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: 51.557, -0.102 Posts: 1,311 Downloads: 177 Uploads: 0	Wasn't here for 3's release, but we didn't have much time to bitch before SH4 came out... If I recall the process was something like 6 months of: "No way will they make a 4th.. no money in it.." "Hey I hear they are gonna make a 4th." "Confirmed they are making a 4th!" (Insert various sausage vs ice cream fights here) "OMG it's gone Gold already!?!" "I just played it...."