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Old 11-13-10, 07:32 PM   #31
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Correct. You are also not able to play the game if you do not own a computer or have electric service.
True, but the game company doesn't dictate that. You may not, but I see a difference.
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Old 11-13-10, 07:46 PM   #32
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True, but the game company doesn't dictate that. You may not, but I see a difference.
Well the Game Company has dictated what your system specs are.
And the economy being what it is ?
They shot themselves in the damned foot!
If an option to allow older systems to at lest run the Game for
modding reasons was included?
There would have been things released awhile back.

As for Amish not useing electricity?
That is a myth.
They have ways around that issue.
Why do all the Amish woodshops around me have CNC equipment?
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Old 11-13-10, 10:44 PM   #33
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True, but the game company doesn't dictate that. You may not, but I see a difference.
It was no secret that Silent Hunter 5 was going to ship with a digital rights management program that would require a constant internet connection. You are a great guy, one of the best contributors that this website had ever seen, someone that has my unquestioned respect, and someone that I consider a friend but if you bought the game expecting anything else, that is on you, not them. UbiSoft were very clear ahead of time.
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Old 11-13-10, 11:17 PM   #34
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I fully agree, and I didn't buy it. As I've said, I will gladly pay full price, warts, flaws and all, once the DRM is completely and officially removed.

My comments are strictly limited to the concept of anyone selling a product and requiring that you jump through hoops to use it. I don't see having to upgrade the computer in the same light, since newer and better requires more from the machine by nature. DRM is not nature, but dictation. They did that because they could, not because it was necessary.
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Old 11-13-10, 11:23 PM   #35
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Correct. You are also not able to play the game if you do not own a computer or have electric service.
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Old 11-14-10, 12:56 AM   #36
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But you can choose to save in your own Hard Drive. When the Game Launcher is loading, you can click here and choose to save in your PC, as you can see on the pic (sorry, it is on spanish)

Maybe, even saving in your PC, once you quit from the game it sincronizes your saved with the ubi server....
well thats what i was getting at, there have been times when your hard drive saves are corrupted by merging with the ubi saves and vice versa.

i have read a few posts where keeping seperate saves caused issues but maybe that isnt the case anymore
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Old 11-14-10, 01:01 AM   #37
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I still fail to understand whats the big news here. Constant or not, you still need to be online to play the game, so in my point of view nothing changed.

for some of us we can connect but "maintaining" a perminent good connection was not always possible so for those who had this problem this new developement means much less agravation and to some it means they can now buy the game since it doesnt require the perminent constant connection
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Correct. You are also not able to play the game if you do not own a computer or have electric service.

that sounds very unfair, someone should complain about that
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Old 11-14-10, 08:37 AM   #39
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Correct. You are also not able to play the game if you do not own a computer or have electric service.
UBISOFT Force the Silent Hunter players to have a computer and a constant Electric Service , This is unacceptable we must complain
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Well I was against SH5 requiring electricity, but they wouldn't listen to me.

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Old 11-14-10, 01:28 PM   #41
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UBISOFT Force the Silent Hunter players to have a computer and a constant Electric Service , This is unacceptable we must complain
Really smart statement, and so unbelievably funny... Steve just has higher standards than all of us. I fully understand him, and fully support him. Having certain principles doesn't justify ridiculing him.
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Old 11-14-10, 03:23 PM   #42
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Really smart statement, and so unbelievably funny... Steve just has higher standards than all of us. I fully understand him, and fully support him. Having certain principles doesn't justify ridiculing him.
I shouldn't imagine such a statement from that particular poster will phase Steve any if at all.

It's not as if there isn't a history of unquestionnable support in existence already.
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Today was the first time I've ever bothered to look up the required specs for SH5, and I've even looked up the prices in my local shops.

I'm surprised UBI hasn't publicised this change.
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I'm surprised UBI hasn't publicised this change.
What, and admit they shot themselves in the foot?


This harkens back to thier 'Fix' for StarForce in SH3.
(Which they STILL indorse!)
Use the ReLoaded HACK!
Not they they are selling a StarForce free version or anything.
Why did they never release THOSE key files free to legit users?
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Old 11-14-10, 04:28 PM   #45
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...i just hope ubi sets the game free. im loittering on the sidelines, fingers itching at my wallet. i have a motherboard that can take another cpu - and with what ive got + my new graphics card i will have enough power to run SH5.
the graphics make me ache with longing. i no very little about the state of play because i have no experience of it personally, though i do read the threads. im thinking/hoping another 12 months for drm + glitches to be sorted out - if so, im in.
its a bit like waiting for ther fall of The Berlin Wall, once its down traffic will flow with greater ease.

£9.99 on amazon
in Game in my town its in the rack for 2Games4 £15.

would sales increase without drm - a little maybe, AND it must be costing ubi a chunk to run the servers?

there is a dog owner near me, she keeps it on one of those extendable leads. in the two years ive been here ive never seen it off the lead. but im guessing it does'nt know any better, so maybe its happy!
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