BP should hire Steve to be their spokesperson
Someone has said that having the dev team working on another project is proof that SH is dead. That's nonsense. It's like saying that The Elder Scrolls franchise is dead because nobody's working on a new title. Poor sales and bad quality could be the nail in coffin for SH, yes, as is Ubisoft's move to more well established titles and it's migration to consoles (Wii in particular). However I think that SH5 has showed promise, either from total newcomers enticed by the superb graphics and the lure of the sea, and a huge negative backlash from hardcore simmers (which shows there is an interest for that too) and will show a comeback as people forget about DRM and mods pick up the pace. One more comprehensive patch wouldn't hurt either.
As far as bugs are concerned, you have to remember that a game tester only cares about
this much about the game he's been assigned to. And giving a niche sim to a tester must sound like making him catch roaches with his tongue. Yes, he'll spot SOME bugs, but flaws in the proper workflow will slip by. Thus, I believe that when reporting a bug, we shouldn't simply say "the AI sucks", "the stadimeter is bugged!!!! fix it!!!", but give a better explanation. That's exactly why I'm counting on the main modders to report major issues, because they've seen the bugs and the major road blocks (room for improvement, of which I've already talked about in previous posts).
As far as piracy and dll modification is concerned... Shouldn't DRM already protect the game enough? Yes, that was a sad joke, considering that pirated versions appeared almost from day one. But what I mean... shouldn't this DRM actually give us more freedom to change stuff outside the data folder? As long as we don't accidentally break the DRM of course
