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| Silent Hunter 5 DRM Terrifies, Encrazies Posters and Journalists Alike by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/05/2010, 9:50am PST | ||||
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| Silent Hunter 5 DRM Terrifies, Encrazies Posters and Journalists Alike
I was going to quote from the Q23 thread, but Jesus Christ - it's nothing but tedious morons calling each other "pirate" (un?)ironically. The one guy who apparently makes games nobody has ever heard of has a sort of smug smile on his face for some reason, and a few dozen of their disposable, interchangeable contributors are probably queueing up the dinosaur pics. I would pay a small fee for an RSS feed that just posted the content of Bill, Lum and Tom. Anyway: RPS. That’s then, but this is now – and UbiGate continues apace. Yesterday, seemingly cracked versions of Silent Hunter 5 and Assassin’s Creed 2 appeared. Ubisoft have since responded to say these DRMless versions are not complete, backed up to some extent by various forum comments observing that the SH5 scene release can’t make it past the first mission. Other comments claim otherwise. What’s a poor website to believe? You could download the cut of Silent Hunter 5 from Usenet, grab the 1.1 update and attempt to run it. That's what you could do to get to the bottom of this. Christ, the fuck are they so worried about, it's a pirated release of a video game, not a downloadable electromagnet. These guys, taken as a deplorable gestalt, are so desperate to one day work in the game industry, they can't even HINT that they might have downloaded a release of something in the untraceable, untrackable form of Usenet. This is why there has been one, and only one example of investigative reporting in the history of computer games (the one about Romero's hilarious exploits at Ion Storm): to a man, they all want to transition to working for the same people they'd report on. At any rate, I had originally believed that the illiterate gamer would not choose Silent Hunter 5, as submarine simulations require a level of brainpower the average young retard would not possess. Checking out the Ubisoft forum during their disaster of a launch proved that, no, morons can't wait to get into Silent Hunter 5. Couple the idiocy of the userbase with the fact that SH5 is a buggy mess and there is no way for a sneer quotes journalist to get to the bottom of this without grabbing the cut and trying it themselves. But they all want to work for Valve and no doubt fear acing the interview, only to have print-outs of a forum or blog post saying they "warezed" a game for purely informational purposes. (The trick is to use a white font, guys.) the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey! |
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Silent Hunter 5 DRM Terrifies, Encrazies Posters and Journalists Alike by 03/05/2010, 9:50am PST  |
