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Originally Posted by Webster
due to good relations between UBI and subsim in the past neal has been granted "insider" access to interviews and info nobody else has been given and in some cases pre-release access to the game itself so the subsim community has benefitted greatly from this friendship.
with sh4 not so much and it looks like with sh5 we are treated like the red headed step child but maybe it wasnt intentional.
i have no personal knowledge about them but i believe the same applies to the other sub sim games as well so it is important to the relationship subsim has with game makers that produce these games that we are seen as a friend and not out there leading the descent on any game even if it is well deserved.
hope that clears things up.
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Thanks a lot, Webster. That cleared it a lot. I was not aware of any "insider privilegies" Neal has with UBI. Good to know that there is such a connection. Even now, in the light of SHV development, it hardly matters, doesn't it? I do not know if the way wishes/requests for SHV from this community were treated (for the most part ignored) intentionally but the result stays the same: SHV is headed towards the disaster if released in its recent stage. It will not sell and that IMO is the end of the road for SH series.
I have followed SHV development with great interest since the rumors started and right now (mere month before its intended release) I have mixed feelings of being angry/disappointed and cheated. Yes, cheated is a good word. We have been kept in darkness about major SHV "improvements" an being spoon-fed bullcrap eyecandy images and videos. I DO NOT CARE ABOUT AN EYECANDY! That's why I still play SH3. What I do care about is playability and (more importantly) re-playability. Without it any game amounts just to it: eyecandy.
If the SHV will be released as intended now (39-43, one sub, DRM, etc) I dare to say that there will be irrepairable damage done to the Silent Hunter series. Not by releasing bad game but by shattering the faith the Subsim members had for UBI.
And that, my friends, goes back to the original SteamWake's statement:"Something about biting the hand that feeds you."
You got it right, mate but from wrong perspective. The saying goes the other way around about who feeds who and who does the bitting: UBI soft gets their hand bitten by Subsim community!!!
Believe it or not, to certain extent, we "feed" UBI by purchasing their merchandise at $59.99 (or so) and if they don't deliver, we won't buy and that's the end of the franchise.
If SHV turns out to be fiasco I personally will be VERY hard to convince to buy SH6. Correct me if I'm wrong.