Silent Hunter 5 Battle of the Atlantic

While the game itself shows great promise (though much like every game in the series wont truly shine until the mods have fixed some of the omissions from the game) its crippled by draconian DRM that restricts play when not online. Meaning any disruption in your Internet connection stops the game until a stable connection is resumed.. on top of that the games constantly trying to upload your savegames to ubisofts servers.. this takes time.. and as anyone familiar with modern games will tell you savegames can get pretty big sometimes.. I just cleared out over 2 gigs worth of saves I'd been keeping for "the witcher" imagine trying to upload those to Ubisoft with whatever pathetic upstream bandwidth you have. Not only are you dependent on your own internet connection, but also Ubisofts. If they have any network trouble on their end, or any trouble with the systems running their DRM server for that matter you also cant play your game..

So paying customers get treated like thieves meanwhile the game's new DRM was cracked in under 24 hours and anyone who cares to can download it for free.
Seems to be like a massive waste of time and money not to mention good relations with Ubisofts potential customers.
I was once one of those customers but will be boycotting any game to use this DRM or anything similar. Good bye Ubisoft.

Recently UBISOFT has released a number of games with minimal or no DRM nonsense. Is this the other half of the experiment, where a game sold consists mostly of...DRM?

Once installed, STEAM hunts for an internet connection. If it is successful it automatically downloads advertisements and updates for both your STEAM-activated games and STEAM itself. If it fails to connect to its mothership, it offers you the option to restart in the offline mode - which, for me, it works about 25-30% of the times.
STEAMed games become worthless the moment they are activated as they cannot be transferred to another user, in other words they cannot be gifted or sold second-hand. Having our paid for games stolen-back from us by STEAM and its fickle offline nature are the two main reasons I hate it (others include snooping on us and reporting back to its occasional masters and. If, like me, you thought it could not become any worse than that, guess again. UBISOFT made sure to prove us wrong.

Games that require activation never actually become yours to keep as the possibility of you replaying it in the future depends on the existence of the original publisher and him willing to allow you to do so (both major doubts!).
Now, having to stay online all the time to play even a Single Player session is an idiotic requirement. Apparently UBISOFT considers legitimate buyers to be thieves, has us jumping through hoops to prove we are not and even prevents us from using the product we paid for whenever we cannot get online.
Pirates, of course, have nothing to complain about, as I just googled it and the game has already been cracked!

Way to go UBISOFT! Even from my orbit I can detect the implosion sounds and see the debris oil-slick.

This sub is dead.

See you later UBISOFT I would never buy a product from any vendor that requires a user to be online in order to use it....be it a game or otherwise. Vendors need to understand that trust is a two way street.....I don't mind registering my purchased product but I don't like having an online connection to a vendor that does not trust me.