Dead?

ReLax · 12-13-15, 08:25 AM

I wonder that this game is still online. I was involved years ago in the closed beta of SHO and I had several discussions with developers and the community managers.
When I began to point out what is broken with this game, what is needed in that game, it became clear that nor BlueByte or Ubisoft ever intendet to make SHO suitable for us.
It was the last attempt to make Silent Hunter open for a bigger crowd with a comepletly dumped down gameplay and everything suitet for playing it in the browser so nobody has get into the game further then knowing what a torpedo is.

Furthermore, I have to say that we won't get a new subsim in the next years. The best thing which can us simmers happen, would be an EaglyDynamics approach. A developer/publisher providing a platform for third party developer which provide the submarines. This business modell can survive with low customer numbers, everything else the time is over in my humble opinion.

Anyway a nice sunday!

v-i-c- · 12-13-15, 09:07 AM

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Originally Posted by ReLax

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Furthermore, I have to say that we won't get a new subsim in the next years.

That's just not true.

ReLax · 12-18-15, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by v-i-c-

That's just not true.

Nope? Tell me more, and don't tell me your WOTA will be the next generation of subsim's. Because everything I read about it, it will be just an arcade like iOS game currently. Your survey is comepletly for iOS users and I doubt currently that it will be easily ported to PC and you alone can do the work of big developement teams investing in the Silent Hunter Series, in Dangerous Waters or the third party developer do into the DCS Add Ons.
Im too cynical to believe this, but it will be a pleasure to see that I'm wrong, and If I'm wrong I will be instantly buy WOTA. But until now, its for me a SHO on steroids.

v-i-c- · 12-18-15, 05:50 PM

Then you've got wrong information.
I'm working since almost since 7 years on it. In some aspects it is already superior to the Silent Hunter Series (the whole hydrodynamics) and it won't be arcade.

cherbert · 12-21-15, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by v-i-c-

Then you've got wrong information.
I'm working since almost since 7 years on it. In some aspects it is already superior to the Silent Hunter Series (the whole hydrodynamics) and it won't be arcade.

If you are so committed to releasing something of this quality why are you persisting on making it an iPad game? If you intend on such a serious simulation why not switch over to PC?

v-i-c- · 12-21-15, 01:03 PM

It will be available for Mac, Linux and Windows. That was always the plan. It was easier to publish on iOS than on desktop, that's why iOS comes first.

CaptainRamius · 12-22-15, 03:03 AM

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Originally Posted by v-i-c-

It will be available for Mac, Linux and Windows. That was always the plan. It was easier to publish on iOS than on desktop, that's why iOS comes first.

Any idea when? The release keeps getting pushed further and further away

ReLax · 12-22-15, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by v-i-c-

It will be available for Mac, Linux and Windows. That was always the plan. It was easier to publish on iOS than on desktop, that's why iOS comes first.

How long do you plan for the portation from iOS to PC? Because as long as it is not on PC for me, and this is my point of view, it won't be a subsim.
And my estimation was in the next years, so how is your roadmap when your iOS release for the Arcade Variant I think is in April?

12-18-15, 05:50 PM	#4
v-i-c- Watch Officer Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Berlin Posts: 343 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Then you've got wrong information. I'm working since almost since 7 years on it. In some aspects it is already superior to the Silent Hunter Series (the whole hydrodynamics) and it won't be arcade. __________________ WOTA: Wolves of the Atlantic™ - upcoming mobile U-boat simulation for iOS (later Mac, PC, Linux) • subsim forum • facebook

12-21-15, 01:03 PM	#6
v-i-c- Watch Officer Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Berlin Posts: 343 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	It will be available for Mac, Linux and Windows. That was always the plan. It was easier to publish on iOS than on desktop, that's why iOS comes first. __________________ WOTA: Wolves of the Atlantic™ - upcoming mobile U-boat simulation for iOS (later Mac, PC, Linux) • subsim forum • facebook

12-13-15, 08:25 AM	#1
ReLax Watch Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Near Hamburg Posts: 23 Downloads: 54 Uploads: 0	I wonder that this game is still online. I was involved years ago in the closed beta of SHO and I had several discussions with developers and the community managers. When I began to point out what is broken with this game, what is needed in that game, it became clear that nor BlueByte or Ubisoft ever intendet to make SHO suitable for us. It was the last attempt to make Silent Hunter open for a bigger crowd with a comepletly dumped down gameplay and everything suitet for playing it in the browser so nobody has get into the game further then knowing what a torpedo is. Furthermore, I have to say that we won't get a new subsim in the next years. The best thing which can us simmers happen, would be an EaglyDynamics approach. A developer/publisher providing a platform for third party developer which provide the submarines. This business modell can survive with low customer numbers, everything else the time is over in my humble opinion. Anyway a nice sunday!