Any chance fo UBi doing a no-online version of SH5?

[robbo180265]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

When this happens first:

[Shoe]

If they want increase sales they will change.

[Fincuan]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

When this happens first:
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That one kind of lost its kick up here when Finland won the Eurovision song contest. The Finnish participants suck(as does everyone else, we just excel at it somehow) as a rule of thumb so a win one of those "not gonna happen until hell freezes over" sort of things, and well.. uh... it happened in 2006

[Zedi]

Originally Posted by Brag

At 3 months it is already a flop in the PC games market. The DRM issue is a primary reason for this...

Stop pointing at DRM as a fail argument for SH5. AC2 it also has DRM requirement and is still in top of the most popular games. This DRM ranting is so damn boring

[John W. Hamm]

Originally Posted by Magnum

Stop pointing at DRM as a fail argument for SH5. AC2 it also has DRM requirement and is still in top of the most popular games. This DRM ranting is so damn boring

If I am not mistaken AC2 was not only more popular than SH5... (Due to conforming to a more broad audience but also b/c it was more polished and at least more finished than Sh5) those things considered... and all things being equal DRM did in fact kill SH5... so put that in your pipe and smoke it!

[Reece]

Originally Posted by Brag
At 3 months it is already a flop in the PC games market. The DRM issue is a primary reason for this...

Originally Posted by Magnum

Stop pointing at DRM as a fail argument for SH5. AC2 it also has DRM requirement and is still in top of the most popular games. This DRM ranting is so damn boring

Yes keep pointing to the online DRM making SH5 a fail!!
When you don't have a good enough connection to play the game online it is a BIG deal!!
I hope after sales drop off they will release a DRM free version like they did with SH3 & 4, then others including me can buy it and play it!!

[janh]

Originally Posted by Magnum

Stop pointing at DRM as a fail argument for SH5. AC2 it also has DRM requirement and is still in top of the most popular games. This DRM ranting is so damn boring

Don't forget that Assassin's Creed II has also console versions, which sold very well since autumn 2009 and generated millions of sales, hence a major fraction of the published total sales. No one of us know how many copies of each platform version of AC II were really sold, and whether ACII for PC did truly remarkably, or just else. SHV did not have a console version on the market well ahead of time. Nor did Siedler VII, at least to my knowledge. Ubisoft is very hesistant of admitting accurate sales numbers for each product, though it would be extremely interesting to see a detailed listing of all its products, by platform and by month since say September 2009. That would tell more.

However, there is indirect evidence that PC sales and total sales went down quite dramatically from Ubisoft Corporate Q4 sales report, which you can get from the PDF of the 2009-2010 report. The fact that this console game "Dance" or so with 3 mio copies was the workhorse in Q4 2009 doesn't speak well for the other releases.

[Wulfmann]

I would buy SH5 if they release it without DRM but my game PC is not and will not be online so it is irrelevant how bad or good the connection is.

If UBI does not want my business that is their decision.

I am aware like all SH versions 5 is incomplete but I am also aware of the fine mod work fellow sub simmers can and will do so one day when UBI releases a DRM free SH5 I will buy it and the longer they wait the cheaper it will be and when I play it then the mod improvements will make for a better initial experience at less money.

I can wait, it will be just as new the first time I play it no matter what day that is.

I can also live without it and I have to wonder how much money from people like me UBI wants to live without.
Their call.

Wulfmann