I don't know about you guys, but making submarine sims is not my job, and of course, I could not make a better one.
I'm not a doctor either, but when I go to one, I expect him to do his job well as I try to do mine.
Imagine you go to a restaurant and order a steak. Instead of the steak, they bring you a burger, and it's half-cooked. You call the waiter and mention that it's not what you asked for and it's not even finished, and he replies: "Yes, but could YOU do any better?"
Would you go to that restaurant again?
SH5 has a solid engine that is capable of much. The DRM is very, very inconvenient, but I can live with it. The bugs on release were a bit over the top to be completely honest (yes, I bought it and played it) but I was willing to forgive that, since we all know the developers probably had less time than they would have wanted.
A patch that got delayed for localization reasons, had said delay announced in a different forum in a different language, and failed to include a number of the promised fixes even though they were completely unrelated to localization itself is a different thing.
Of course, SH5 is not the worst game ever released, there have been much, much worse examples. But it's not polished, it's only partially functional in some aspects, it included game-breaking bugs on release, etc.
Will that be fixed? Of course, with time.
Is it the first time it happens? Heaven forbid, no. We've seen it many times.
Is it the end of the series as we know it? Hardly, I'm not pessimistic about that either.
But still, nobody can really ask us to be happy, especially arguing that we couldn't code a better sub sim... :)
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