The gawd-almighty merged DRM in Silent Hunter V thread

[Nisgeis]

I didn't do anything guv'nor. Wanna see my receipt for the pre-order (of SH4)? .

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Anecdotal evidence is not proof. My daughter's laptop DVD drive stopped recognizing music CDs. I don't think it was U2's fault.

Of course it wasn't.




It was Ozzy!

[Nordmann]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Ok, here's hoping Ubi's new OSP bus is a little faster and a little wider!!

Yes, so the legitimate customer can be smashed aside in a much more expedient manner!

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Nordmann

Yes, so the legitimate customer can be smashed aside in a much more expedient manner!

I'm tough, I can handle it

[Arclight]

We're not all from Texas, Neal.

[guynoir]

Also, you'd be surprised at how fast a pirate can run when they're lit up by a DRM's headlights...

[scrapser]

It's been a few days since the post where Ubisoft explained that their new DRM will enable them to supply additional services and features to customers who have been asking for them.

Has anyone found any evidence of what requests have been and who has been asking for them? I've been looking and so far...nothing.

I for one would like to call Ubisoft's "bluff" (for lack of a better term that can't be posted here).

[Heckler]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Heckler, I understand your point, and the problem is not with Martes or badkarma's intentions. For all we know they may be telling the exact truth. However, people who download games illegally will not announce they do this (if they do, the are banned), so there is no way to tell the honest people from the dishonest people. Were you here when SH5 came out? Do you remember the people compaining that the game had serious bugs like the crew chanting numbers over and over and they had big bug eyes? Yeah, those were signs that these people were playing pirated copies of the games.* When you see 200,000 downloads on the torrents, you have to know there's a lot of people playing SH games that did not pay for them, like me...and you.

I'm hoping I will be

I assume you meant SH4 and no I wasn't around then... but I ahve been around many other games that have suffered the same problems. I went out and bought GTA IV on release day for the PC and immediately had many issues trying to get it to run (on a high end PC) at an acceptable level... The GTA forums were full of the same issues... and lots of people calling anyone who had issues pirates and so forth.

Over a year later and those same issues are still going on, performance on high systems is a joke and rockstar were trying to claim the game is 'for future systems' that don't exist yet... and in a few years computers will ahve full performance... The real problem was that is was a really sh*tty port from the console and done badly... they never even bothered to change the controller configs and released it with Xbox 360 controller support only and no way to remap certain controls or actions for a mouse and keyboard.

Needless to say I struggled for a couple of months and never solved them all... and the game went back up on the shelf... tried it again a couple of months ago and new patches, but they still haven't fixed the problem of it being a sh*tty port.

Too many games, too many bugs... have left me a little bitter and suspicious of every single software developer/publisher out there.

I think that's why I'm so impressed with this place... SHIII seems to be bigger than it was 4yrs ago, bigger than SHIV and I imagine SHV isn't going to knock either of those of the top spots with things looking like they do... and even if it does and a lot of people unaware of the DRM, if those people who experience problems with it, put it on the shelf like I would and not bother with another one again... it hurts Ubisoft not us, as we've still got SHIII & IV to play with, and I suspect will have for many years to come.

[Onkel Neal]

My brain, no workee

[Platapus]

I believe it was Winston Churchill who said

The only thing that ever frightened me during the war was the DRM peril

[UnSalted]

Some companies actually listen to their customers I'm happy to say. I was nosing around the 2K Games sire and saw a January 22 announcement that they were scaling back the DRM system for Bioshock 2 due to customer concerns. Gee, shocking isn't it?

[609_Avatar]

Originally Posted by UnSalted

Some companies actually listen to their customers I'm happy to say. I was nosing around the 2K Games sire and saw a January 22 announcement that they were scaling back the DRM system for Bioshock 2 due to customer concerns. Gee, shocking isn't it?

I'm curious to hear in what way it has been "scaled back".

Originally Posted by 609_Avatar

I'm curious to hear in what way it has been "scaled back".

if they follow UBI example to scale back they wont give out any info on the game at all

[Brag]

Originally Posted by Webster

if they follow UBI example to scale back they wont give out any info on the game at all

Webster,
are you getting funny?
You made me spill my rum

[JScones]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Ok, here's hoping Ubi's new OSP bus is a little faster and a little wider!!

And thus the customer car a little more crushed?

How do you crack your walnuts Neal, with a nutcracker? Or a large rubber mallet?

Your continued assertion that everyone complaining about DRM/OSP must therefore be a pirate is getting a bit tiresome and offensive (particularly when you imply that those against DRM are either idiots with no attention span or too miserly to spend $50) - I am not a fan of DRM/OSP, but, perhaps surprisingly to you, I am not a pirate. I hope you can actually understand that this is possible.

A few days ago you chipped Brag for his incessant anti-DRM posts...to that I have three words: pot, kettle, black...