Customer Reviews

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction [Download]

5 star:		(29)
4 star:		(15)
3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(54)

 

 

Military members that are deployed are frequent gamers. May carry over their XBox's, Laptops, PS3's, etc to the deployed location (Europe, Middle East, Africa, anywhere really). It's one of the few things left to do that bring some joy from home and give us a chance to escape reality and just have fun.

This is the second game now I've found that REQUIRE a constant high-speed internet connection, just to play single player. The first I saw was Assassin's Creed II and now this one, another high-anticipated game. What in the world are these companies thinking? They don't even have servers that can handle the loads of people trying to sign on to the SINGLE PLAYER games, so you may find yourself waiting hours upon hours just to sign in. Then you'll find yourself knocked off when the server slows down too much. [...] for this?

As far as the military community (hundreds of thousands of people) are concerned - NONE of us can every play these games while deployed, TDY or just traveling around the country.

I can understand companies doing what they can to prevent copyright infringement, but this is TOO FAR. You've alienated an entire corps of people and the hatred for this type of program requirement is growing drastically among the public. It's time to wake up and release patches that will allow single player people to play these games with no internet connection at all. (that's what install ID codes are for inside boxes at install).

Wake up Steam and fellow companies that keep this internet requirement insanity.

I pre-ordered this game through Amazon and couldn't wait to get it on release date, I'm been a Splinter Cell fan since it's inception. I was very disappointment to look at the back and read that I have to have a permanent online connection, but since I got it and a 12Mbps down pipe, I figured I might as well install and play. Install was quick, but when I tried to play it, I could not connect to a server to play the game, waited an hour, two hours, four hours, still no go. This is a bad impression to me and I will never by another game with this DRM or permanent connection needed, my advice is to not purchase this game, this has been a huge disappointment. Why go through the trouble of having top notch hardware if you can't even use it play the game, cause it's been ran off a server. I must say, I do not understand the decision these execs make, but they have lost a customer here.

You know, I consider myself really tolerant of DRM and things like Steam that make us validate our product is legit at install etc...

BUT - there is a line, and this game definitely crosses it! I don't want any singleplayer game needing an internet connection on at all times! I am already a little annoyed that any single player game would require an internet connection at install....i think they aught to have some avenue (like a call in number like MS does with windows) for people to validate without the need of the internet.

So, here I am, writing one of these reviews I never thought I would pen, but I just feel it needs to be done when I see this sort of thing happening.

Unfortunately I won't be purchasing a game I would have been willing to spend 50$ on. I feel bad for the actual game developers to have their art so significantly diminished by this :(

I was at Gamestop yesterday where I reserved this game and looked on the back of the box. I noticed as well that the saved games are kept online!! This is even more controlling than Sony is with the PS3. Once I seen that I proudly refused to buy the game. Time to boycott companies that follow these evil practices. Show them that the consumer is control with our wallets!

P.S. I guess the new DRM Scheme they are using is the reason why we are paying $60 for this game instead of $50. That reason being that they have to pay for the server forcing us to be connected to even play this game. NICE RIPOFF!

Another game not playing due to the garabage DRM. Ubi how many sales have you actually lost treating customers like you do?.

1) Internet required to play a single player campaign.
2) Saved games are saving in some server and not in your PC.

Yes, you don't own your saved games anymore.
This seems a big joke, but it's true.

I'm glad I read the reviews because I was going to buy the game, but after reading you need an online connection at all times I decided not to buy. What a shame.

Every new game UBISOFT is publishing requires a constant Internet connection to play, regardless if you are playing solo or not. If the UBISOFT server is unavailable for what ever reason (denial of service attack, link problems, you're on an airplane, or you have no internet connection), forget it, you can't play and the game will abruptly halt.

Regardless how fun the game might be, this kind of 'DRM' makes activations look good, and I won't even buy a game that requires Steam. Don't buy this game and better yet, don't buy anything from UBISOFT until they dump this stupid DRM. I would almost rather have Starforce again than put up with this!

Unless you've been living under a rock or, you know, you're...a casual gamer (gasp!), you've probably already heard about the latest scheme by a major publisher to come up with a "pirate-safe" DRM system:

-You must have your system connected to the internet at all times
-Your saved games are managed by the DRM system...meaning if you lose your connection for even a second, you lose ALL PROGRESS since your last save
-If Ubisoft's authentication server ever goes down, EVERYONE playing their games is immediately dropped, losing all progress since the last save and remaining unable to play until the servers go back. They've been down several times already since the system started...sometimes for hours

This system has been around in Ubisoft titles for the past few months; Splinter Cell: Conviction is no exception, meaning customers have plenty of experiences with it and they are SO BAD that it isn't even worth discussing the game trapped in its clutches. Of course, this system has ALREADY failed; the pirates have found a way around it. That means this is one more DRM system PUNISHING honest customers who bought their games, and rewarding the pirates who get the games for free with a crack eliminating the DRM...meaning they are having a better experience than paying customers, because they don't have to deal with the "always online" hassle. Sometime explain to me how that makes sense?! I'm not encouraging piracy, of course...just pointing out what a jagged pill it is for us to swallow, and at some point, we have to draw a line.

DON'T SUPPORT this DRM. Send a message to Ubisoft and ALL publishers who would consider a similar approach: we expect you, the publisher, to assume your paying customers are HONEST people. Pirates will ALWAYS crack your games, and many of those who download cracks would never pay for the game if it was impossible to crack anyway...meaning those big numbers you guys always publish to justify this garbage are basically meaningless! How about you put respect for people putting 50 or even 60 dollars down for one of your games over your absurd desire to "spook" pirates into staying away from your games...all you're doing is encouraging them to take on a challenge!

Sooner or later, Ubisoft will break. The press continues to be terrible for this approach. In the meantime, hang in there...join the boycott!

I travel a lot and I can't play this game due to internet connection. DO NOT SUPPORT THIS STUPID DRM