This time I'll wait......
 

I'm happy to see that SH5 has finally been officially announced. Now the game begins once again. Demands, frustration, anger, joy etc.

For me, having gone through the fiasco of SH3 and SH4 being released as unfinished games and then having to be heavily patched during the first year after release, has changed my mind about purchasing the game.

This time I've decided to wait at least 9 months, probably a year after release, before purchasing SH5.

Buying a game and immediately patching it...then waiting for and adding mods....then uninstalling those mods and adding patch 2....then waiting for and adding the newly compatible mods....then uninstalling those mods and installing patch 3...then adding newly compatible mods.....it all gets so old.

So I'll follow the journey of SH5 as an interested onlooker. Once patch 1.4 is released, I'll buy the game at some bargain basement bin and patch and mod it.

I'm too old now for Ubisoft's nonsense. :)

Wise words from the miserable old fart ;):haha:

But yeah, I know what you mean, but I'll likely be getting it sooner. As soon as I can afford more hamsters to run my computer.

i will go on ebay looking for cheap ones ppl who cannot run it then get one and just wait to save my money read the box then get a g-card i think.

U-168

I just can't go through all that nonsense again, Kapitan. I know that Dan and his team will have worked their asses off on the new game, and I also know that they will have had a totally under funded production schedule to get the game built.

It will be the same old story. Either reward Ubisoft's poor customer service ethic and support the Silent Hunter franchise by paying $49 for the unfinished game at release, or pay $10 for a completed game patched to 1.4 nine months later.

With SH3 and SH4 I went for choice 1 and supported the franchise, but this time I'm going with choice 2. I have better things to do with my time than constantly patching an unfinished game that I paid $49 for.

If that makes me a miserable old fart then I guess I'm guilty as charged. :)

Good posting :up:

I experienced the same farce with Dangerous Waters.
Very high expectations but
- first release very bugged
-> everyone angry waiting for the first patch that seems to never arrive
-> play a little
-> MOD's frenzy starts
-> new bugs
-> new patch (new wait)
-> new bugs
-> producer withdraws from project leaving the game unfinisched and me with 70$ less in my pocket AAAAAARGHHHHHHHH!!!! :shifty:

ditto. went through it too many times and too recently in E:TW to go through the frustration again. maybe im just finally learning? heh i do want it tho....

I too have felt the same frustration and while the trailer caught my attention I will be patient and see what else is revealed in the coming months on the game. As for purchase, I will buy the game but I do not think I will rush out and get it until after the first couple of patches - as Ubisoft has a past track record of releasing the game too soon and then the devs have to patch it quickly.

I also have to look at my PC. It is 3 years old and I have been upgrading parts of it to keep it somewhat current but it would depend on the specs for this game as to when I buy. If I need to upgrade again to run the game then I would need to do that first and then save up to buy the game (which might buy me time to get a more stable game :))

Well someones got to bite the bullet somewhere. If we the sub simmers dont buy the game (anticipating the same ol' same ol'), then Ubi will think the game is either:

A. fine as it is and will reassign dev's (due to lack of feedback) or
B. the sub sim genre has died out and the SH franchise is no longer a cash cow.

Now if we all buy the game Ubi will think that:

A. the game must be good because it's selling well and will reassign dev's or
B. they might actually learn and keep the dev team together for a couple of months while the bugs come in.

Now personally I have no choice but to wait to get it as I have to upgrade my system. A P4 and 6800GT don't cut it anymore.

Hooray for TDK! I'll take door #2 as well. We have all sorts of questions to answer before game purchase is in order for me:

• What is the copy protection scheme? Is it a "service" which runs 24 hours a day sucking resources from my computer? Is it something that will use me as a pawn to carry on a personal grudge against another programmer who just happened to catch them in a previous criminal act? Will it interfere with the operation of unrelated aspects of my computer? I won't accept unreasonable copy protection.

• What are the equipment requirements? I don't mean "what does the box say." I mean what does it really need. Others can be the pioneers and collect the arrows this time.

• Wolfpacks? No wolfpacks, no sale. SH5 without wolfpacks will be as realistic as SH4 without water.

• I'm looking for meaningful improvements in gameplay. Sub walkthroughs with natural looking crewmember movements and "interactive" speech don't count. They're eyecandy and earcandy. As such they're nice, but are meaningless to gameplay. I want gameplay first, candy second.

• The trailer's emphasis on surprise attack by forces that should have been easily detected before, with a captain who is touring his boat when he should have been attending to his responsibilities on the surface, plus the absurd artwork depicting the sub surfaced within a hundred meters of exploding merchies and attacking escorts make me wonder about the overall design philosophy of the game. Do we have an arcade game here? Does Ubi understand the buyer of a simulation? Or are they selling to FPS fans only now?

• And of course I want to know how it plays. It's not like I'm not having fun with SH4 and have SH3 as well. Many think SH3 is even more fun than SH4. I'm perfectly happy with the status quo and would consider buying a proven, realistic, smooth-running Silent Hunter 5 in several months.

That one seems to be giving Ubisoft some sleepless nights at the moment. Looks like they are working on a new tool lets hope it's not too intrusive.
Though I think Eidos may have hit upon the best piracy prevention of all here let's hope it works for them as it may signal a new dawn for software retail.

I believe the ideal copy protection scheme should encourage people to copy the game with reckless abandon, minimizing distribution costs, while requiring them to pay for registration in order to play the game. Keeping the installation disks from being copied only adds to game company expenses.

A little imagination needs to be applied to the copy protection arena. If Jutland came up with something new, Ubi can.

Bugs or not.....I'm buying:D The game is afoot as they say! UBI will deliver a 99.9% completed game! :yeah: Keeping the faith men!

LOL ironic thread is ironic.

I'm pretty sure were all going to have to wait...

@RockinRobbins
Yes, I like your idea, alternatively make games so cheap no one would bother to pirate them. They diid this in Russia and piracy rates dropped by 78%.

I genuinely admire your loyalty and your optimism, AVG, but what makes you think they'll deliver SH5 in a 99.9% state when neither SH3 or SH4 were anywhere near that?

The game is certainly afoot though. May cool heads prevail. :)