I can't answer that one definitively, but SH3 does seem to benefit from a recent influx of new players. I've mainly been a member of the Ubi SH3 forum and noticed a big influx of new members some time ago. I surmise that it was due to Ubi both removing StarForce and marketing "bin" versions of the game. I was really looking forward to SH5 putting everything right that was missing from SH3, only to read from others that the game was released in a version that wouldn't even justify the beta title. It's too bad; they had so much material to incorporate from the modder community. If only they'd release the SDK's from previous versions, at least those could be fixed up.
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