Hi, new here and have to say that SH5 will be the last of these sims published and made by one of the big publishers. Ubisoft was always my favourite among the big ones because only they had persevered to publish and sometimes develop simulators when everyone else had abandoned them.
With Silent Hunter of course it was always on that borderline between staying alive and being cancelled. Let's face it, if Ubisoft didn't have a cheap resource to make it in Romania and instead had to rely on a western studio they would have given up after SH3. The continual decrepit state of the SH series when released also points to Ubisoft being loathe to get a new more costly developer to make the series, as they figure, rightly, that we (sub) simmers will be grateful with any half finished bug riddled product, that the talented among us will then use their time and energy into turning it into the game it should be. Ubisoft figured that since they have a virtual monopoly on sub sims these days, then they have no reason to increase the quality of its games.
Now with the DRM debacle, it seems to be doing what a stream of half finished games didn't: angering the sub sim community. This will probably end up killing off Silent Hunter, as from a small base, a few percentage points less sales will be enough for Ubisoft to pull the plug on this.
Maybe it will live on as some kind of action-sub game such as the H.A.W.X. thing, incidentally also from Romania.
Maybe they can call it S.U.B.Z.?
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