that's a fine position
But SH4UBM is solid. There is no cause for delay. It loads significantly faster and is even stouter than patch 1.4. I've been happy since patch 1.3. It's long past the appropriate time to complain about UBI. They supported their product in a climate where game companies don't always do that and SH4UBM improves on the patch 1.4 product in measurable and significant ways.
For better or worse, in a nitch market such as sub sims, who gets there first owns the market, as there are just not enough buyers to support two competing products. Therefore a valid and reasonable part of UBI's strategy was to preclude competitors muscling them out of the market by getting the game to market first and making it good later. A good plan today beats a perfect plan tomorrow, simply because today's imperfect implementation prevents tomorrow's perfect plan from being born. Hint: tomorrow's perfect plan is just as flawed as today's.
The system worked well. We have the best sub simulators in history, by quite a long shot. And they are both published by the company many love to hate. Go figure....
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