Yeah, I hafta admit I got a bit excited when I first saw an announcement for the Sea Wolves add-on. Then I emailed X1 to ask if this thing would include wolfpack missions (promised but not delivered by the SH3 dev team). The reply I got back was "no", which pretty much confirmed my suspicion that they were actually bundling together mods we can get for FREE and then having the gall to charge money for it.
I know SH3 has its bugs, but the great work of the modders clearly indicates an appreciation for the quality we already have in this game regardless of those bugs. IMHO what X1 is trying to pull off is a shameless ripoff, and I WILL NOT spend one penny on an add-on or expansion pack that doesn't come directly from the SH3 dev team. A cynical attitude about Ubisoft might seem emotionally satisfying (the evils of big business, blah blah blah), but we would be foolish to write off the possibility that the people who created SH3 might actually care to invest more time into making it even better than it is. If I'm right, a "wait and see" approach will be worth it even if we have to pay for an expansion pack. If on the other hand I'm wrong, we still have one helluva great sim, and kudos to the modders who've taken their own time to give us a way of adding to the experience.
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