I just wrote the following and sent it to UBSoft Support

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Kapitanleutnant

Nobody takes any notice of emails. If you care enough to write all that out, print it, stick it in an envelope and mail it to them. I'm not saying it'll make them change their mind, but one physical letter is worth a hundred angry emails.

and sign your real name for cryin out loud.

Originally Posted by oscar19681

Good job. If everybody would just paste this and put there own name under it and also send it to ubi they would maybe get the message!

no you dont want to be a form letter or it looks faked, but take it as a pattern to write your own or change this one to fit who you are

[GoldenRivet]

well... heard anything back?

[rascal101]

No I singed with my real name and email address, I thought privacy concerns of this forum might prevent publication of the letter so I removed my personal details

But a real name and contact information on any letter you might send to Ubi only adds to the power of your complaint - regardless if they actually read it its out there in their records on on this forum

Regards
Rascal

would

Originally Posted by SteamWake

You dident really sign that thing rascal@ ... did you?

[rascal101]

If you cvut and paste it and add your name you weaken the power of your own comment - sure take mine as an example but send your own version and put your real name and contract information on the document you send to Ubi -

Post your letter here at SubSim to record what you've done and and what you said to let otheres know that depite your fears that your effort counts for nothing, you actually did something rather than just sat and moaned

Send it to any official Ubisoft email link that you can find let them know what you think


And rememebr if you dont like what's being done, there are new mods re SH3 its your best bet at the moment

Regards

Rascal

Originally Posted by oscar19681

Good job. If everybody would just paste this and put there own name under it and also send it to ubi they would maybe get the message!

[Gilbou]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

Yep true. Reminds me of World of Warcraft forums blizzard devs just don't go there very rarely will they answer a post unless one of their sponsored players responds you might get a reply from blizzard. To much rage/bleating in the forums so why bother. One time a blizzard tech answered a reply from a player that had problems with his eyesight color blind or something and asked for help if their was anything blizzard could do. This tech reply back and made a script file mod for the player when using the keyboard - or personally made his very own mod just for this guy to improve his game-play and only he could use the mod. The tech was pretty much loved by all players after that. So devs do rely only when they think its an important issue.

Waits for colorblind threads to popup in Subsim

And not only he did this but this colorblind system was developed and added to the game and applied to _everything_ inside the game. You now just have to click one box in the game preferences to have a color blind mode applied to the graphics, texts, everything that appears on screen.

I do play Wow. Yes I play each month. Why ?
Because I got fed of buying games full price, full of bugs, having no one fixing some after years. At Blizzard, servers are monitored 24/24, each week they have maintenance, fixes, and 24/24 I can contact in game a game master for help if I'm stuck or lost or anything. I have seen hundreds of bugs go since I play the game, and you do see each week, each patch where you money goes : additionnal content all the time, fixes, and responsive game masters always available.

[Lt commander lare]

thanks for sending the letter i agree with most people here ubisoft could care less about this but at least we all stand united on a subject that should never have taken place at all if ubisoft would care about the little people that dont have internet and the ones that do should be able to play offline without internet connection im sorry about all this neal this wont wreck subsim subsim will thrive because we all have honorable people here that would pay for something thanks for all the good years here and many more


lt commander lare

[stabiz]

Originally Posted by The General

Well, Australia has always been a backward Country, who cares about those monkeys? They only just got colour TV. If we wait around for them to get Broadband, SH5 will never be released and I don't want the release delayed by one single hour!

Still, nicely written letter though.

You seem like a nice chap.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Kapitanleutnant

Nobody takes any notice of emails. If you care enough to write all that out, print it, stick it in an envelope and mail it to them. I'm not saying it'll make them change their mind, but one physical letter is worth a hundred angry emails.

This is good advice. Also run your letter through a spell checker and fix the grammar. You can lose a lot of creditability that way.

[John W. Hamm]

I like yours i sent one of my own as well to every name on the list!

[janh]

... these are well chosen words. I totally agree with the letter, and the fact that the online DRM (even the single time activation) makes one dependent on the success and continuing existing of the company -- nobody will guarantee that the serves will be up in ten years from now. And how many now and then pick an older title form their stack?

I know from a friend of mine working in a well-known European consulting group that some IT companies specifically investigate such a move to reduce the sale of "used titels", which presumably reduces sales substantially. Hard number by way of statistics are of course hard to come by because that is by nature not a simple, well-controlled market. However, as your property, you are legally allowed to sell the CD's, Manual and program of course.

Now I find Ubi's move very disrespectful and very unthankful towards long-standing customers, me included. I almost begin to regret that.
I do understand their desire to protect their "inventions" as best as they can, but this is just an unnecessary hassle.

Logically, if many prospective or former customers would indicate their disagreement with this move, as a significantly big group we could induce them to rethink their decision. We really ougth to start a petition here.m Formal, well formulated, and signed by everyone who agrees. No (nasty) comments or such.

I would like to buy the game, even though it seems in parity with SHIII as some things are better, some other things are now missing. However, I see that I got to support them with my purchase to keep the way to future products open. And yet, as I travel a lot on business and oftentimes dont have internet access, or only quite slow, I can't buy it if they have this kind of DRM. Actually, I think from now on I will even be more consequent and include online activation as reason.

I really hope they rethink their decision.

[THE_MASK]

Originally Posted by The General

Well, Australia has always been a backward Country, who cares about those monkeys? They only just got colour TV. If we wait around for them to get Broadband, SH5 will never be released and I don't want the release delayed by one single hour!

Still, nicely written letter though.

I think referring to australians as monkeys is racist .

[TarJak]

Originally Posted by The General

Well, Australia has always been a backward Country, who cares about those monkeys? They only just got colour TV. If we wait around for them to get Broadband, SH5 will never be released and I don't want the release delayed by one single hour!

Still, nicely written letter though.

[Reece]

Originally Posted by The General
Well, Australia has always been a backward Country, who cares about those monkeys? They only just got colour TV. If we wait around for them to get Broadband, SH5 will never be released and I don't want the release delayed by one single hour!

Still, nicely written letter though.

Wanker!!

[Reaves]

You need to be online to play it? I have constant internet but this is stupid? I'm not normally one to complain about games but.... damn... Ubi sure do suck.