No way to buy silent hunter 5 on steam

chaparral · 4 Mar 2010 at 01:17

Has anyone noticed that silent hunter 5 has been released on steam

But there no way to buy it :confused:

(there no price :confused:

)

http://store.steampowered.com/app/48110/

ic1male · 4 Mar 2010 at 01:22

That means it's only available in other countries (probably North America for now). It will probably arrive here on a Friday sometime.

P.S. It uses the dreaded new "always connected" DRM from Ubisoft.

SB118 · 4 Mar 2010 at 08:36

ic1male said:
P.S. It uses the dreaded new "always connected" DRM from Ubisoft.

Not any more it doesn't...

CaptainRAVE · 4 Mar 2010 at 09:40

This game looks hot, cant wait!

Koalaboy · 4 Mar 2010 at 12:31

Because the new DRM negates the need for the DVD to be in the drive, just buy it from an online store (for less than Steam will sell it anyway). I've ordered the collector's edition from some book shop, for around £30.

sygitius · 4 Mar 2010 at 15:32

Thanks for info

Greebo · 4 Mar 2010 at 16:13

I thought that although it was released yesterday in the US we don't get it until May in uk?

Koalaboy · 4 Mar 2010 at 16:21

Greebo said:
I thought that although it was released yesterday in the US we don't get it until May in uk?

The place I ordered from suggests tomorrow, although it could be wrong I guess as they're not the most reliable of gaming places. However, the UBI site seems to suggest March 4th onwards.

Greebo · 4 Mar 2010 at 16:33

Koalaboy said:
The place I ordered from suggests tomorrow, although it could be wrong I guess as they're not the most reliable of gaming places. However, the UBI site seems to suggest March 4th onwards.

You're right, not May. However most of the normal pc games sites state 5th March for uk release.

Nate--IRL-- · 4 Mar 2010 at 16:43

I can buy it now from steam if I wanted, I wonder why the UK can't get it.

Nate

chaparral · 4 Mar 2010 at 17:26

Nate--IRL-- said:
I can buy it now from steam if I wanted, I wonder why the UK can't get it.

Nate

Because it haven't been released in the UK yet..

Impulse is the same (only available in US & Canada

)

Vulcan · 4 Mar 2010 at 17:47

SB118 said:
Not any more it doesn't...

Because of course Steam will be using the Skid-Row version won't they.

duc999 · 4 Mar 2010 at 18:53

Before parting with your hard earned cash and giving your internet connection to ubisoft to play with , I would very strongly suggest you nip over to http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/1121062387 as it would appear that folks are not best pleased with this.

joffy · 4 Mar 2010 at 19:03

The game's generally considered a buggy let down over on subsim.com

AWPC · 4 Mar 2010 at 19:03

Ubisoft are not making Assassins Creed2 or Silent Hunter5 available on Steam in the UK according to Steam mods!

ic1male · 4 Mar 2010 at 19:05

AWPC said:
Ubisoft are not making Assassins Creed2 or Silent Hunter5 available on Steam in the UK according to Steam mods!

Why on earth not? That is most bizarre. :confused:

EDIT: It appears there is some sort of exclusivity at retail with play.com. Or it could be they are blocking £ sales in order to charge the € customers artificially high prices and circumvent UK steam gifting.

duc999 · 4 Mar 2010 at 19:12

joffy said:
The game's generally considered a buggy let down over on subsim.com

You're being far to kind

They even forgot to put a compass in it ! :eek:

"Come to 230 degrees , errr how do I do that then ? "

Macro · 4 Mar 2010 at 19:28

So now it's buggy, has a pretty awful DRM implementation and can't even be bought through steam in the UK although it's available elsewhere.

Way to go UBISOFT, are you actually trying to avoid making money on this?

chaparral · 4 Mar 2010 at 20:35

duc999 said:
You're being far to kind They even forgot to put a compass in it !

"Come to 230 degrees , errr how do I do that then ? "

There No compass :eek:

(I don't know to laugh or cry at that one)

Plus

but the lack of the real important things, like depth under keel ect, is

ic1male · 4 Mar 2010 at 21:29

Athanor said:
Way to go UBISOFT, are you actually trying to avoid making money on this?

They're French - they must still harbour ill feelings from the Battle of Waterloo. Yves Guillemot's great-great-great-great grandfather must have been killed by the British or something.