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[timmy41]

The DRM no longer requires contact every 7 days? That would be great if true! I play SH3 on my laptop and its a pain for the additional cost of internet for it when traveling. If it is true that the DRM no longer must do that then I may just get this game!

The DRM no longer requires contact every 7 days?

It does not appear to. You can set the game to run off line and force update searches through the "StormPowered" utility. Alternatively you can set to run on line for multiplayer or automatic updating.

It's still a DRM scheme but is essentially unobtrusive and also acts as a download and installation/removal utility. I too had refused to buy SES products solely due to their former draconian DRM model but this is so far invisible once in place.

Have noted some very minor hiccups but nothing that detracts form playing as yet. By now most of the technical glitches seem patched out and what remains appear to be mostly specific to the local computer.

[CCIP]

Yep, it's just an option you can set after buying the game - both of the main SES titles are offline capable. To quote a post from SES forums,

Originally Posted by Crackaces

In StormPower select My Games. Select Jutland. Just below "My Games" in small font will be change to offline capable. Select that and Strompower will verify the license and change it to offline capable.

I've done this and it works excellently. It also allows me to run the game offline on both my laptop and my desktop if I choose to.

[timmy41]

What would be the point of running it online anyways?

[CCIP]

Multiplayer, really. The only thing that you can't do with your copy is buy one and then use it to play multiplayer on two different PCs at the same time.

[cuppa]

Originally Posted by timmy41

The DRM no longer requires contact every 7 days? That would be great if true! I play SH3 on my laptop and its a pain for the additional cost of internet for it when traveling. If it is true that the DRM no longer must do that then I may just get this game!

SH3 = Silent Hunter 3?

SH3 requires no internet connection so don't understand your complaint, unless you meant SH5.

[CapitanPiluso]

Stormpowered = Primitive version of Steam

[tws71669]

Two problems.
I installed Jutland Pro and everytime i go to launch it, it launches an update that in 4 days NEVER succeeds. So Jutland won't launch.

Second problem, I'm trying to purchase the ship and map packs through the stormpowered client and I get script errors when I go to check out. Hence I cannot purchase anything.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.