Your point is a very fair one, Neal.
Personally, I'm very disappointed at Ubisoft for turning away from a sim based series, and making Silent Hunter 5 an obvious arcade game..... based on all the videos/screenshots currently released.
That, in and of itself, wouldn't have been that big a deal. It would just have been a case of dealing with a buggy arcade game that the modders would have to work even harder on in order to get it somewhere near where the members here would want it. The plus for the modders being how modable the game is .......allegedly.
The salt in the wound though is Ubisoft making the game playable online only. At that point, my disappointment transitioned to anger. To put a buggy online arcade game on the market, and expect simmers to pay $50 for it.....Forget it.
It's targeted at the wonderful casual gamers. Let them pay for it. We'll buy it later down the line when it's $10, patched, and playable offline.
I'm over the 'don't bite the hand that feeds you' theory. Time to let this arrogant, unprofessional publisher know we feel.
