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Originally Posted by Spartan
Exactly. Modders should not be expected to fix a product that people pay a premium for. Moreover the devs know about this community and could easily use it for real QA but elect not to in the name of profit margins. Then to add insult to injury they lock it down with DRM.
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I agree very much with the spirit of those who refuse to by the game on moral grounds concerning the DRM. It is an insult to those who do purchase the game legitimately, and will only hurt their sales figures.
However I did purchase the game myself and have had no problems what-so-ever with it. I know some have, but in my personal experience it is (by itself) nothing that would prevent me from purchasing the game. And while the product does have its share of bugs (or maybe more than its share), I haven't found any of them that are game breaking on my end.
I think alot of the furor over the game will die down in the coming weeks. It's understandable why people are upset: we all have a passion for submarine games and with SH being the biggest gorilla on the block, it is only human to hope for it to reach our most basic expectations. We all have a common love, and we don't like to see it treated with anything but respect.
That being said, I am probably one of the few people who is perfectly fine purchasing a game knowing its the modders that will make it great. I love Paradox Interactive's games, but I know full well that the modders will take their good products and make them excellent. Of course PI, unlike Ubisoft, is very committed to fan-feedback and will release many, many patches to support their products. Not to mention the SH5 modders have a longer ways to go with this release.
But all in all I am perfectly satisfied with my SH5 purchase. I have been enjoying it for the past few days without any hangups, and the only CTD or other major event that disrupted my playing was due to my own computer and not the servers. So its not a perfect game, and it should have been released later to polish some of the bugs, and the DRM is an affront to gamers, but this game is not broken nor "bad".
It's like a dented Shelby Cobra that has flat tires and a cracked windshield. The potential is there, but it is going to take alot of work and dedication to really get there.
Anyway, thats my $0.02.