[Sailor Steve]

Welcome back. First, I would remind everyone that the "hold-out crowd", of which I am still one, made their own fair share of snide comments.

That said, there's good news and bad news.

The Bad: The importation of ships is still not solved, so players are still limited to variations of the Type VII u-boat, and a tiny handful of Allied merchant types, almost all of them American.

The Good: As many will tell you, there are a large amount of mods that make the game much more enjoyable and fully playable. A mod has been created that extends the campaign to the end of the war. TheDarkWraith (formerly Racerboy) has created a great many mods that allow you to choose almost any User Interface you can think of, among a great many other improvements. There are many other mods, which a quick look at the Mods forum will show.

Good/Bad: The DRM has been modified so you now only have to log into the UBIsoft servers when you start the game. But you still have to do that, which I still find repressive. If that doesn't bother you, you'll probably have a great time.

Bottom line: There are still a lot of folks who won't buy it because of the DRM, there are a lot of people who have played it and even with the mods dislike it and won't play it, and there are even more who are having a great time.

I'm sure when all the people who enjoy it have checked in you'll be able to make a good judgement.