Comments on: Silent Hunter’s Past, Future and DRM

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:24:55 +0000

Hi!
DRM is killing the idea of computer independence. I think people hate it.
It even probably encourages hacking. Shifting the interest to other things and so on. very bad for games, very bad for democracy.
Goodfor ultimate cyber combat — drop games, start learning programming and hacks.
Otherwise just play older games or do something else.
You are right that the people in charge of UBISoft Romania will blame something else than DRM on the defeat of otherwise great game concept — sub simulation. they should add real technology solving methods like calculating position or torpedo solution by real crews.
Well, good luck all! Real Gamers!.

By: Randall Haut

Randall Haut — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:01:38 +0000

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By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:22:05 +0000

I’m a 58 year old drilling engineer (oil and gas exploration). I own few original copies of Silent Hunter (1) and play sims on my laptop to ‘decompress’ while I’m in airports. The DRM is a deal killer. Hey, Ubisoft, how a version that doesn’t have the DRM … I’ll pay more for it!

By: Rohan

Rohan — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:52:35 +0000

Conveniently for most of you guys, I just don't feel that SH5 is really worth it, anyway. Not until there's been lots and lots of patches and mods churned out for the thing, at least.

By: deltaalpha

deltaalpha — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:50:11 +0000

I picked up the game and read the DRM and put it back down. I do not have high speed or a reliable connection and so….. Sorry Ubisoft I was a huge fan of the series but it looks like our love affair is over.

By: E.M.Marine

E.M.Marine — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:46:53 +0000

Ubisoft is making a very bad business decision.I picked up SH V in a store a few days ago.I read the part about the DRM,and placed the box back on the shelf.Lost sale for Ubisoft.Plus I have been following the SH V forum at Subsim,and it sounds like Ubisoft has pushed another unfinished sim out on the market so they can start the patch-a-thon again,and with the aide of the great modders at Subsim, have a decent sim once again.People hang on to your old SHIII,SHIV,sims because I have a feeling Ubisoft is about to fold.There only chance at redemption is to get DRM fixed,and make their sims a bit closer to to being ready before they release them.
E.M.Marine

By: greyone40

greyone40 — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:01:09 +0000

Thanks for this post. I had heard about this DRM from a friend who is also a great fan of submarine simulations. We are going to wait to see what happens on this issue, so that is two more potential sales gone. Neither did we participate on the survey, so there are two more responses on the “not buying” column.
If anything I will probably wait until a year or so goes by and the price falls, so that I am not risking any more money than I have to. This is a bit disappointing, as there is no problem with the CD key method that I am familiar with. The pacific game is pretty good, and a step up from SH3 as well, so I’ll just stick with it when I get the itch to sink a few ships.

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By: prowler0000

prowler0000 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:11:14 +0000

I`ve played every sub-sim since Silent Service on my Atari 800XL……

I had my eye on SH V since last summer, Pre-ordered on Amazon UK, the “SteelBox” edition: Not much more money, but looked like more in the package, & the guide looked hopeful…

Package turns up on day of release, Much excitement. Hmmm, packaging looks a bit small to contain a guide as well??!!

1st thought: nice box!

2nd thought: “A permanent internet connection is required to play the game.” WTF!!!!!! Where did it say THAT on Amazon`s product page?!?! looked at the page again, no sign of “Online Only” notice. looked on Play.com. No sign of “Online Only” again….

3rd thought: ummm, wheres the “Official Guide containing all in-game details”? Oh, it`s a pointless small brown hardback book with pix of the ships in the game with very little discriptive text & a crew manifest with basic personal information! Hardly a “Prima” strategy guide i was led to believe i was gonna get…

I have a 3G USB dongle for my net access @ home. it suits my basic online needs.

after 1 WHOLE HOUR of downloading a Post-Install patch, that I HAD to do to play the game, My intrest in actually playin this much-anticipated sim was gone….

Thanks UBI. another satisfied customer. NOT!!! UBI = U Bloody Idiots!!!

By: Big M

Big M — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:06:49 +0000

@ zosX

Wrong, the missions work. You just have to first run the game with the cracked exe and not the UBIsoft updater. Then you start a campaign and skip the training mission. You’ll be in the port and can pick missions. There’s a lot of desperate propaganda by UBI trying to suggest that the crack doesn’t work, but sorry to say for them is that it DOES WORK.

You can also save games on your computer, not their servers. You can do missions, go back to port, replenish torps etc.