I purchased Uboat missions for SH4 from Ubisfot's online store when it first became available and do I ever regret it.

I just purchased Win7 so have to reinstall SH4 and Uboat missions. That measn I once again have to contact Ubisoft via their web only contact form to get another unlock code because the twerps only gave us one unlock per purchase.
Most download games that come with unlock activation methods give you 5. That's FIVE Ubisoft and not a chintzy ONE!!! This has ****ed me off so much that I am considering boycotting all future purchses of Ubisoft games. That's what happens when you screw around with your legit cutomers to try and thwart piracy. Fooking wise up you idiots!

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Originally posted by Simian:
I purchased Uboat missions for SH4 from Ubisfot's online store when it first became available and do I ever regret it.

I just purchased Win7 so have to reinstall SH4 and Uboat missions. That measn I once again have to contact Ubisoft via their web only contact form to get another unlock code because the twerps only gave us one unlock per purchase.
Most download games that come with unlock activation methods give you 5. That's FIVE Ubisoft and not a chintzy ONE!!! This has ****ed me off so much that I am considering boycotting all future purchses of Ubisoft games. That's what happens when you screw around with your legit cutomers to try and thwart piracy. Fooking wise up you idiots!

You are not the first person to have taken exceptions with downloading SHIV from Ubisoft. Unfortunately, their policies have not changed so the best advice I can offer you is to find a copy of SHIV, The Gold Edition in disk form and purchase it. This way you can uninstall and reinstall as many times as you want.

I'm not paying for a second copy of SH4 when I already own a working copy that I paid full retail price for. Here's what I am going to do instead, I can either puchase Uboat add-on again from Steam (unacceptable) or I can go look for a torrent download of Uboat add-on without the one time only activation BS (acceptable to me and TFB for Ubisoft if they don't like it because I own a legit license to Uboat add-on so I am doing nothing illegal as far as I know). The thing is there probably is no torrent for Uboat add-on so I will have to once again jump through hoops to get another activation. I don't even have torrent software installed so just doing that is a PITA enough.

I'm sorry, I gave you the best advice I could. You of course, can do whatever you choose. However, since torrents are considered a form of software piracy and therefore cannot be discussed on these forums. I didn't make the rules, I just enforce them.

I have popcorn.

Anybody want some?

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If you are installing to the same PC,
contact tech support through the proper channel, I'm sure they will issue you a new unlock code for your download. Unless you are trying to install it on a new PC, which would be a form of piracy.
Just a little FYI for you my friend. Coming to these forums and moaning about your troubles will not solve your issue. Instead, it may get you banned with no hope in sight of solving your problem. And stay as far away from Steam as you can get.

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A workaround is quite easy. But it requires time travel. Here's how you make it work.

When you install SH4UBM, make a copy of the entire /Wolves of the Pacific directory. You can put this on a DVD for safekeeping or a external HD, whatever.

Then when you make another install of SH4 v1.4, you can merely delete all the files from the /Wolves of the Pacific directory and restore from your saved SH4UBM version. Tada!!!! You just reinstalled without requiring a new key.

Under acceptable use policies, you are allowed to back up a legitimately purchased piece of software for just this purpose. Under the Digitital Millenial Nazification Act you might still be found to have some problems, as much that has been considered fair use for a hundred years is coming under attack. However, I think since everyone who does MultiSH4 installations does the exact same thing, you'll be in the clear.

Just Curious why stay away from steam that where I got my copies of SH3 and 4 cuase I couldnt find a physical cd in my area I have had no problem with and I can d/l it on any computer if I needed to get a new one

you might be able to find a copy of the game for cheam too. I've heard of version 1.5 selling for as little as 12 bucks, and if you havea used video game store you might be able to get a disk for less just be sure to inspect for scratches.

I purchased my CD copy of V1.5 on eBay...for $12.
Good advice on backing up the whole SHIV folder to CD. I'll have to do that, just in case.....

If, that is IF there is a Half price Books store near you they sell the Gold 1.5 version for $6.00

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they sell the Gold 1.5 version for $6.00

That's what I paid for my 'hard copy" after already paying for the DL version. I bought it at Amazon.Com and, w/S&H it came to about $9.00.

The new guys... and the new generation if you will.

Do not purchase games (or any serious software) online, buy the bloody stuff on CD/DVD... when will you learn your lessons.

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Do not purchase games (or any serious software) online, buy the bloody stuff on CD/DVD...

QFE. Never do digital D/L, Steam, or any other method of purchasing a game that does not give you a hard copy. Call me old fashioned but you never truly "own" a game until you have the CD/DVD in your hands. I get bored, and remove games, only to want to reiinstall them later. CD/DVD's make that possible.

i have been playing games since I was 2 on the Atari 2600 and have had nearly every system. Yea there is a nostalgia that I get when I buy a hard copy of a game. But I find it easier to d/l games then to buy them. I dont have to keep track of CD keys or worry about a CD getting scratched up over long period of time. Yea the downside of buying from steam is if you have a bad connection it take practically forever to d/l a game. Over the past 10 years I have had 4 computers. Buying off of steam has been easy for me to transition to better computers. The games are always on my account and I can easily take off and put on what I want by a click of a button. I guess growing up with technology had made it naturally easy to accept this new technology.

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i have been playing games since I was 2 on the Atari 2600 and have had nearly every system. Yea there is a nostalgia that I get when I buy a hard copy of a game.

I can say that as well, except i get no sense of nostalgia getting a hard copy. I GET the hard copy. Period. It's nothing to insert a CD into a machine, and d/l a patch as opposed to the entire damn game. I'm pretty adamant about that. At any rate, to each their own, but id bet my bottom dollar that having a hard copy is infinatly better then a copy that is volatile, transferred over an unpredictable medium that is susceptible to lag/packetloss/corruption, not portable, reliant on ever present internet connection in order to aquire, and also dependant on the provider always being there and not disappearing for one reason or another. To hell with that man, i'll take a CD/DVD ANY day over that. A disc, as long as you take care of it, is practically forever.

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The new guys... and the new generation if you will.

Do not purchase games (or any serious software) online, buy the bloody stuff on CD/DVD... when will you learn your lessons.

Now in the Linux world, you can download the ISO version, which is a disk image. Just burn the ISO and you HAVE a hard copy that is good for the duration. THAT would be an acceptable way to buy a downloaded game if your Internet speeds were fast enough.

But yeah, if you don't have a non-volatile hard copy of every piece of software on your machine, someday you'll be hatin' it! Even then, disk image software, like Acronis True Image, with a separate external hard drive for backup, is your best first line of defense.

That being said, in the early days of SH4UBM the download was the only way to go. Direct2Drive had the opportunity to show a better way to buy software. Instead we were saddled with a grossly unreasonable restriction of a one-time key, not respecting our right to reinstall to repair our installation when necessary.

Fine. Direct2Drive got my $10. I call it education money. You think education is expensive? TRY IGNORANCE!!! And that money was well spent to educate me never to spend another penny with Direct2Drive. It was a bargain and I'm not complaining at all for the reasonably priced instruction. I hope others also learned and Direct2Drive goes bankrupt for their disrespect for their law-abiding customers. Unlike Richard Nixon, I am not a crook and when I am treated like one I will win the encounter.

In the meantime, while we wait for them to die a richly deserved humiliating and excruciating death, we've explained the ways to work around their unreasonable restrictions.

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The new guys... and the new generation if you will.

Do not purchase games (or any serious software) online, buy the bloody stuff on CD/DVD... when will you learn your lessons.

until cloud comes online of course

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Call me old fashioned but you never truly "own" a game until you have the CD/DVD in your hands. I get bored, and remove games, only to want to reiinstall them later. CD/DVD's make that possible.

Even then, you don't own anything other than a physical copy of the software, along with a license to use it. That's what you are really paying for. A license to use.
Which, in my opinion, leaves us consumers open to getting screwed by developers, publishers, and Securerom.
Look at Microshaft for example.