I agree....he could do with some help and support.

Hey Dan! It's good to hear from you again. I hope things are going well for you on the home front. :sunny:

That poor Community Manager over there is getting the same treatment that Congress gave the BP CEO. :)

The only difference is that Congress was in the driver seat and commanded answers to their questions. Community members are only riding the bus. The questions go left unanswered or glossed over. However, he is a Community Manager not a reporter on what if anything is going on with patches. So what is he really there for? Manage/moderate the community or be the go between for any patch information? Both? I think he is just there to manage and should not have his feet held to fire for patch information.

I LMAO at Privateer's response in that thread

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http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common...ages/blank.gifPosted Tue July 06 2010 17:37 Hide Post"A decision has not been made until now IF a patch will be release OR IF no future patch will come."

Now that's pretty clear to me.
The 'until now' says it all!
The decision was just made to make no decision!
Duhhh!"

He is now suitablt attired and help is on its way :DL

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I truly do not understand what the community manager is attempting to do. Of what use is this posting and telling the community he does not know a thing? :doh:

You have a most superlative taste in armors, my friend. :up:

Edit - Might I also recommend a mix of Swiss pikemen and Landsknecht to accompany your cavalry? :D

I'd need it if I was the Community Manager over on the Ubi forums I reckon :DL

Indeed. A lot of pent-up frustration to be let out and he's the only one there with ears (erm, eyes anyway). :haha:

It had to be expected. Why would Ubi throw this poor guy to the lions when he obviously had no news to report to the teeming masses? What point and purpose does he serve? More botched marketing on the part of Ubisoft...

Simply because those fat dudes from ceo have no clue about wtf is going on with their products. They think that everybody is happy same as the AC2 crowd, so they thrown a clown for entertainment. I feel really sorry for that guy, he just try to do a job for what it gets payed. He really have no clue about how badly damaged SH5 is and why this community so angry and pissed off.

Wish that 1 day a dev or a faty from ceo will show up there trying to be a funny guy.. that would be a real massacre :dead:

Watch it. Some of us have friends on the Dev Team. Thanks.

Yeah, I can see blaming things on the CEO and maybe even bad mouthing them(heck I do that often enough) but none of this is actually the devs fault. We are lucky the devs were able to do as well as they did on this game with the way Ubi's upper management has been acting. It is the CEOs/upper management that makes all the product decisions such as release date, whether a patch will be made, etc. In fact, I have gotten some help from a few devs doing mod work, so if anything, we should still be thanking the devs.:yep:

@Magnum - some of the devs do lurk here from time to time. I don't know any of them personally but I have communicated briefly with one of them. They are human, too, and deserve an equal amount of respect from us as we would show for each other and ourselves. ;)

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I think that might be the worst of all possible outcomes, for several reasons:

The code base is buggy -- it still has problems that were never fixed in SH4 and were patched up with chewing gum and duct tape by modders. An independent dev starting from scratch would have a better chance of giving the subsim community what we're looking for. Maybe even a cross-platform sim that would work on Windows/Mac/Linyx? That's how X-Plane works. They even have a stripped-down app for iPhones, which seems silly, but it brings in lots of cash to fund development of the PC sim versions.

Also, any money paid for a license from Ubi would be money that can't go to more art development and programmer man-hours. That's one reason why Bioware bailed out of the D&D franchise and created their own IP for Dragon Age.

Finally, for better or worse, the "Silent Hunter" name has a big footprint in the market. It needs to go away, to leave room for new projects that can develop their own franchise in this area... the way the LockOn air combat crew did after Microprose and the "Jane's" series disappeared. Actually there is a new "Jane's" game coming out, but it looks like a console-type action shooter, nothing like the original combat flight sims. That's the kind of thing that can happen when franchise names are sold, unfortunately.

Anyway, I'm ready for a completely fresh look at this type of sim, from a developer whose heart is 100% into it, and backed by a financial side of the company that won't pull the plug, before the game is actually ready for release.

Well Dan, if anyone would have news it would be you, wouldn't it?

So how about it... what news on patch 3? Is it in work? Is it planned? Has it been talked about at all? If so, what is the current consensus?

And you're right... we are owed. An honest answer to a direct question, if nothing else. We've had enough corporate speak and the "gee guys, I can't talk about it" crap, don't you think?

JD

Then you should love the further posts.
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Him:
"A decision has not been made until now IF a patch will be release OR IF no future patch will come."

Me:
Now that's pretty clear to me.
The 'until now' says it all!
The decision was just made to make no decision!
Duhhh!

Him:
Making a decision to not make a decision would still involve a decision-making process and such a thing has not happened.
The "until now" part means a clear decision should come.

Me:
So what your saying is:

No decision has been made yet on a decision weather a decision to make a decision
about decideing to, or decideing not to patch again is decided.

Now my head hurts.
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:har:

@privateer,

That is classic:har: