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Originally Posted by Nordmann
We might have been able to do something about it, if people could only have restrained themselves from buying the damned game. But no, for all the complaints, they go like lambs to the slaughter.
Ubi must be having a good laugh at our expense (well, your expense, I didn't buy it), because they know that they can release a half finished product, with ridiculous restrictions, and their loyal fans will go right ahead and buy it regardless.
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That is the best and only point that can be said in a situation like this.
If we are unhappy with the product, as more than a majority of us are, let our wallets do the talking. Many people were unhappy about DRM, and made vows and what not, but they were little more than talk. They bought the game anyways, just as you said being sheep, but now complain when the server goes down and they can't play. It is people like this that make the cause of fighting DRM like systems a losing cause. Because they will still buy the game, giving the company exactly what they want. And once they have what they want, they do not care whether we are happy or not as we have seen with SHIV (thanks to the modding community it is a great game.)
I am surprised at the people on subsim. I have been here since the announcement of SH3. Many times during the development of SH3 and SH4 subsim was given alot of say and respect (hell we changed the release date of SH3 so we could get a dynamic campaign!). Yet with SH5 we were all but left in the dark had it not been for Neal. That first and foremost was the big red flag for me. Slapping a community in the face that has been helping carry your releases in a certain niche. Then the fact that the game only plays out to 43? Big red flag number two. This told me that if fact they were releasing half a product, no doubt with plans to make the "expansion" or "DLC" play out till 45. Last and certainly not least DRM. The thrid and final and most important big red flag. You have to be online and connected to a server in order to play the game you paid for? Pff, what a joke and anyone who bought into that is just the same joke, and the joke is far far from being funny. Willing to give up their freedom in order to play the "latest" and "best" version of SH. All that did was slap SH series. Now those some people are reaping the consequences of jumping on board a sinking ship.
To me this fiasco is not unlike the Empire Total War fiasco. Anyone who knows of that game knows that there were huge promises made during pre-release of how wonderful the game was and the AI and the graphics and the playability and the modding tools. Yet once released the only thing they delivered on was the graphics. The game hardly worked, and even the lead developer of another company called out Sega and CA saying that there isn't even an AI in the game. CA claims to have been happy with the game upon release, yet 9 months after the fact one of the dev teams posted how he was so embarrassed with the game that he wouldn't even
give the game to his friends. Yet they had no problems lying to the community they had built so much respect with and selling them a broken game. Then on top of all of that, instead of fixing the game (which is still broke as hell even with some of the best mods) they instead announce that they are working on another game. Not even an expansion, but a different game all together. Nailing the final nail in their coffin for me. Because they slapped me and the TW community in the face I will no longer purchase any TW games upon release and more than likely will not buy them period. AS a result, of not just me but of the entire community (save the few brainwashed ones) NTW sales have suffered greatly. Rightfully so. The same should be done with SH5 and UBI.
UBI is doing the same thing and I see the writing on the wall. I do feel a certain pain for the people who bought the game with high hopes. I had done the same with ETW. I know you pain and your frustration. But just as SEGA/CA didn't care, UBI will not care as well. They are and have turned their backs on the subsim community, period.
But maybe this is a great thing. I imagine a better run company who respects their customers more will pick up the SH series and make it better than UBI ever tried to (with the exception of SH3).