Warning for those wanting to get SH4

[c13Garrison]

Three cheers for the Allblacks!!

Just sitting down to watch the beautiful NZ countryside in the park with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, courtesy of the Two Towers & PJ.

[Rockin Robbins]

Glad to see you're sorted out Capt_Morgan. Hope you don't have a one-time install code like I got from Direct2Drive. So Ubi has met my requests with pure silence.....deafening silence. They SURE value their victims..er I mean customers, don't they?

So I bopped over to gamefly.com to see what they've done with the partially digested body of direct2drive. Turns out they're merging Direct2Drive accounts into GameFly accounts with full rights as GameFly customers, including redownload and reregistering automatically accomplished, sort of like Steam does. It appears to be a greatly superior system than direct2drive had. I tried to log in. My d2d login was for an obsolete e-mail address. In order to reset my password I had to log in, but I couldn't log in without my password, which I couldn't reset because my original e-mail address was no good.......repeat until......

Fired them off an e-mail last night. In my in-box this afternoon is a nice e-mail from the GameFly people identifying customer service human Kat U and asking for very specific identifying information. I should have my account back and registered in my new e-mail address shortly.

Now what is wrong with Ubi? It's the same "treat the customer as criminal" mentality that produced that abortion known as Silent Hunter 5 and the reason not one penny from me goes into Ubi's pocket until the end of time. I am the customer and I will get my way and will act with the honesty I demand of any company I permit to do business with me. Ubi joins the ranks of Sony and Apple as slimy examples of bean-counter anti-employee and anti-customer abusers. Lots of good companies need my money and I'm happy to pay when I'm treated with respect.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

They SURE value their victims..er I mean customers, don't they?

Ubi doesn't think of you as a victim. That would mean they had to think of you at all.

[c13Garrison]

Hah! Well said m'Lud.

[Rockin Robbins]

I'm sure they try not to think of me. Too often anyway!

Well, I'm in business! Just started up U-Boat Missions to ensure it was installed properly and shut it down. Right now I'm copying the whole shebang to another disk drive into a write protected SH4 Pristeen directory so I can restore without reinstalling from now on.

Then I'll be checking backups to see if I have any save game files or anything I can salvage. I'm sure I have all my mods so that's not a problem, although I'm loading TMO 2.5 for the first time.

Think I'll start out with an S-Boat and see if I can find enough targets to keep my command! That can be a challenge with an S-Boat but I'm not wimping out this time. I'll stick with the S-Boat no matter what.

I'm off to research mod configurations from past careers! I can't wait to sail again!

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

Think I'll start out with an S-Boat and see if I can find enough targets to keep my command! That can be a challenge with an S-Boat but I'm not wimping out this time. I'll stick with the S-Boat no matter what.

try my s-boat mod if you want a real pucker factor for the s-boat

I tried to make it as realistic feeling as I could so it acts like a 20 year old rust bucket that it was

[Rammstein0991]

Say what you will about them but you cant deny at least when you buy from Steam they don't ask for your photo id and they do deliver the product as you ordered it.

PS. I hope you got your money back from those jackoffs

[grislyatoms]

"I am the customer and I will get my way and will act with the honesty I demand of any company I permit to do business with me. Ubi joins the ranks of Sony and Apple as slimy examples of bean-counter anti-employee and anti-customer abusers. Lots of good companies need my money and I'm happy to pay when I'm treated with respect."

Well said.

Once I get sick of the latest "Xcom", Steam goes in the garbage.

Ever since I loaded up SHIV a couple months ago (from disc, I got the Amazon SHII/SHIV 1.5 bundle), Steam "authenticates" my purchases every time I turn on my laptop.

Kinda waiting for them to verify my purchase of SHIV with a letter/e-mail. Then, the sparks will indeed fly.

[Capt_Morgan]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

Glad to see you're sorted out Capt_Morgan. Hope you don't have a one-time install code like I got from Direct2Drive. So Ubi has met my requests with pure silence.....deafening silence. They SURE value their victims..er I mean customers, don't they?

Gamesrocket said I had 3 tries to enter the correct serial then the game is locked forever. If D2Drive stated one seem the retailer can control the 'Tage' DRM check. Softpedia said the expansion (SH4) had no serial then they just sent me one 2 days later..Great service know how there. (Already spent money on SH4 Gold by then)

Well, I got some pretty good scuttlebutt from a mate of mine, who say he must have reinstalled about 50 time without a problem, serial and all.
The Secret.
He registered the game with ObiSoft. Seems when you register it on your account it takes the Serial and the game title (in my cast SH4 Gold) and stores it as the registration. So ACCORDING TO MY MATE you can reinstall

Either way I also made a backup or the folders before I even ran the game.

Cheers