It was a hard decision for me, should I really buy SH5? because of all the criticism spread in all forums. By the way the most objective criticism I found was on this page.
So I took my courage in both hands and went to a shop knowing to buy a game wich has many issues and I had still the feeling from some forums that the game is nearly unplayable.
As I came back home and started the game I felt happy it was running w/o connections problems. And after I played a few hours I've met a lot of bugs that other players stated and got killed by crashing own ships when returning to the harbour with time acceleration wich is very annoying, so I got more careful when driving in harbour areas. BUT beside all the problems the game is playable like it is and I was having a lot of fun in these hours. I think the most important task of a computergame is for the player having fun and this one is fulfilled for me so far. Furthermore in my opinion something I felt the first time when playing a subsim and what approved my decission of buying it is that feeling of being "inside" not operating a software program.
Nevertheless the publisher and the dev team should discharge their task and do what we paid for. They should at least solve the major issues which decreases the fun a bit in a lot of situations.
Respectfully showing my point of view
LeNe
