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Originally Posted by janh

Sad for Ubisoft Romania. This could have been a real highlight in the series but for one major reason, which I don't even need to mention here for you to know yourself. It probably just induced people to be more careful and much more critical, perhaps so critical that the true quality of the game didn't quite matter anymore.

Little changes to the release strategy, a longer beta testing, and at least an official announcement as to the missing content that so many old loyal customers had been used to with SHIII. Don't fix anything that is not broken, you only can alienate people that are having already specific expectations based on previous many experiences from AOD to SHIV. A button in the setup to switch between old-style SHIII GUI and modern iPhone style GUI would probably have avoided a lot of discussions, too.
And I guess everyone would have been happy to hear that "A mission addon with 43-45, and the types II, IX and XXI will be released 6 months after the last major patch for $19.99", even if it meant that all interiors were generic type VII rooms.

That way old SH fans would have been happy, and new casual gamers could have been attracted the new makeup at the same time.

Quoted for truth.

Exactly how I feel about the whole affair.