The just released Silent Hunter 5 — the long anticipated sequel to the buggy and disfunctional SH4 and SH3 titles — ships with a truly nasty copy protection sheme. Apparently, continuous authentication is required or the game disables itself, even during play.
UBIsoft servers are already experiencing outages, preventing a game owner from playing his legitimately purchased title. Can’t say I’m interested in such onerous DRM combined with a game that’s sure to be at least as buggy as the prior titles. What ever happened to trust, eh?
On the flip side, this likely resolves the longstanding issue of producers copying DVD titles to produce perfect ‘pirate’ DVDs.
It seems these wankers couldn’t program to save their lives. It’s already cracked. UBI also had to release a patch — just like with SH4 — the same day the game was released it’s so buggy. No surprise there. My wallet’s closed.