1) I play FPS games too, so I must be stupid. This whole "they've dumbed the game down" argument is getting so annoying. We haven't even seen what the game plays like on high realism. Making a COD style FPS is not their "strategy", where are you getting this from?
One sub is fine if it's all polished and done well. There's no reason why the devs can not make a good, realistic sim, with only one sub-type. There's plenty of sims with only one craft, even dumbed down ones:
Realistic:
Falcon
DCS Black Shark
Dumbed down:
F-22 Lightning
F-22 Raptor
The Commanche series
F-16
Mig-29
Armored Fist
2) Again, you have no evidence for the game being "dumbed down". Not sure what your point is in this one. You go into DRM in 3). Not sure if you're right about the mods being slow to come. If the dev tools come out as promised, I bet you'll see the opposite happening.
3) This is a warranted fear. If the DRM gets cracked SH5 may be pirated more than the other titles. I agree with you on this point.
This may be the case, but maybe it won't. This is just speculation at this point. Maybe all the negative hype is all just a lot of hot air, and when it comes down to it, the new DRM will do no worse than starforce did for SH3.
Fact is that SH5 will come out with Ubi's new DRM, and there are no signs that this will change at such short notice. For Ubi's sake, and for the sake of the SH series, I hope it works.
Ps: There's no way SH5 will be as successful as DOOM
