Privateer said it best.
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100% with you there Tater.
I didn't buy the 1.5 patch.
I bought the U-Boat expansion.
The 1.5 patch just came with it.
I'd poke my eyes out if we don't see a 1.5 aside from the expansion
sooner or later.
From a purely business aspect?
What I see makes perfect sense.
Heck, I'd do the same thing!!
Get a few bucks for the expansion (Patch included)
Once sales go down, release the patch.
Covers costs, increases interest in the expansion,
get better feed back on both.
Your not going anywhere.
You'll still be around for the 1.5 patch release.
And when it's free?
You'll grab it.
I said it before, I'll say it again.
(And NO! I'm not saying you Guys are putting out bad stuff!! )
Ubi should think about the
Field of Dreams thing.
If We build it?
The Modders will come!!
Thanks to all the Dev's!
You gave me a whole 4 months of things to play with.
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If Ubi has no income stream it can no longer maintain the product. If you are not willing to support that, stay out of the way of those of us who understand the process. Developers need to eat. Game companies need income. Money is the only honest way to vote on what value we attach to a product. Stealing shows that you find it valueless. Expecting to be catered to for free is naive. We should be glad to pay for the support we are getting for the sim franchise we love.
The add-on was a fabulous value for $10 in the USA and for more than that in Europe. Of course patches relate only to the latest products. Let's see you download patches for Windows 98ME. You expect not to pay for Vista? This is life. You seldom get more than you pay for. SH4UBM is one of the rare examples where the value exceeds the price. My $10 was very well-spent.
Just one improvement in the Fleet Boat side was losing the "All stop" when you load a saved game. Another was much quicker game loading as a result of rewritten game architecture that no amount of modding could achieve.