SHV may be a flop because no one cares anymore
 

I swear when the Godfather 2 game was coming out. Most of us knew that it will be a crap. But still the forums were full of poeple who waited for the game and said "OMG IT WILL BE THE BEST GANGSTA GAME EVA!!!!!"

So now i sit in SH5 forum. Everyone is rambling. This game is going to suck and everyone agrees. I have never seen that before. It looks like no one is waiting this game out. Everyone is prepared for the worst.

This game is a laughing stock. I only feel bad for the developers. It looks like UBI is killing off the SH series :/\\chop

well, ubi is not trying to exactly kill off the series... they are just trying to sell a slower paced game to people who want lazers blazeing, guns fireing, and things happening every other second.:yep:

So does this mean there will be sharks with laserbeams on their heads?

No you will have to mod those in just like the rest of the war post 1943. But this time you will have the tools to do it.

You said it in the thread title! :yep:

I'm actually starting to think that everyone's low expectations of SHV will help it when it finally comes out. The mood in the forum for SHIV was much more anticipatory and that hurt people's opinions of the game when it didn't meet their standards.

Addressing the title of thread:
i think plenty of people care.......maybe the care factor has abated or waned recently.....but judging by the numerous posts about, well........stuff, i think plenty of people care.....

I think maybe SH5 could be the best modded silent hunter game yet if not for the OPS (DRM) .

People care, or they/we would not be posting so much.There would be no outrage on DRM or the arcade like features that we have heard about or the war ending in 43 or only having one type of submarine.Hopefully all this can be modded and DRM will ultimately be left out.We shall see.

Again, plenty of people care.

with the eyecandy and action content, they hope for all the fancy casual people, cause they are addicted to eyecandy and willed to buy every week a new game.

we are the modding community, and we need to create the game new. to our needs.

Wether the game is good or bad is pure speculation. The way Ubi been releasing info has fanned negative reactions. What we do know for sure is the DRM/OSP infection, which is totally unacceptable to most people and makes the game unplayable offline.

Moo!

It's obvious that developers don't give a ... something about all these posts in subsim forums, they will just try to sell the game mainly to the arcade style game players. The mainstream matters these days. So, in the event that the game can and it will be modded, and I put an emphasis on "if the game can be modded and brought to a playable level", if the game will be released on the market in march, it will be probably fully playable by simulator enhusiasts not sooner than next year. And that in the best case scenario. And there are too many "if"'s, unfortunately ... Rebirth of the GWX4 project will probably be the last "chance" for a lot of us.

Developers or Ubisoft?

Silent Hunter 5 looks like being an arcade game targeted at the casual gamer and only available via the internet.

I can't think of a worse combination than that.

Both of them, they are very "related". And I feel really sad and disappointed to say that, thinking that the game is being developed in my own country. And the saddest this in all that is the fact that I know for sure the developers can do a lot more, but since the "direction" is being given from higher spheres ... they will just obey, they are doing this for money, they must earn a way of living somehow. In some degree, I understand them. It's the same like in the music industry and other stuff that needs to maximize the money profit in the first place. But unfortunately, some of us are still living in an idealistic world.
Just remembring that first trailer in english makes me feel sick in the stomach. That was the first sign that the game will probably not be for me.