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Originally Posted by Rudolf_Pflanz
Why is this game so under developed. I work in London in a professional career, if I produce my work to this standard, I wouldn***8217;t have a job. My customers wouldn***8217;t come back to me ever..... as they would consider me a waste of money. There is no excuse for such a lousy product.
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To be fair, that doesnt mean your job is in anyway comparable to games development.
Sh5 underdeveloped mainly because it was not well managed I guess.
but also it was a bit experimental and over-ambitious, that is what happens when you take risks, sometimes it pays off, sometimes it doesnt.
Remember too that it was a niche product and would have had a lower budget and development time compared to projects on the more popular genres.
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Originally Posted by Rudolf_Pflanz
There are a significant volume of games produced in 2010/2011 that are miles better than this effort.
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Yes but how many of them were subsim's? None.
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Originally Posted by Rudolf_Pflanz
You should hang your head in shame for this disappointingly preposterous product. You should even wear a badge, daily for the rest of your lives that states that you are a SH5 developer and were instrumental during the development of this programme.
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The actual develpers of SH5, where mostly a good bunch of guys who were genuinely passionate about the SH franchise, unfotunatly people make mistakes, they tried to take it in a new direction and it fell short (for the above reasons)
When this happens, managment have the choice to either salvage a project or pull the plug, in SH5's case due to poor sales (mostly self inflicted by Ubi's own DRM system) they went for the latter option.
Sometimes when a game or franchise gets a bad reputation, it is not possible to save it with patches and expansions.
Customers/fans will often shun any bandade offerings from the developers and simply argue that they wont pay extra to fix issues that should have been addressed before the original game went gold.
As for your badge comment, calm down - I know you're frustrated, but take it easy with comments like that, those you are insulting maybe 'faceless' to you, but they are freinds to some of us here. Be cool.
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Originally Posted by Rudolf_Pflanz
Perhaps this is the future of Ubisoft, partially completed games.... such as SH5 and Cliffs of Dover? Perhaps when I buy a copy I can partially complete my payment?....
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It is true that Ubisoft (as a company overall) do not have a very good rep these days. of all the major games publishers they seem to be one of the most stubborn and least willing to listen to their customers.
@ £7 I'd argue that you did only partially pay them, I payed £29.99
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Originally Posted by Rudolf_Pflanz
You know who you are.... and I am sorry that I had to write this... but you have to know the truth of the matter that this IS NOT A GOOD PRODUCT... and if you had any remorse you would refund me my £7...
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Everyone here knows the score with SH5, while some have shelved it, others have perseveered with modding it and have improved the experience. Maybe you should take a look as the SH5 modding section if you havent already.
While I do sympathise with some of your points, please remember that nobody forced you to buy the game - and there was no shortage of reveiws and infomation on SH5 for you to research before you parted with your cash.
You may well be able to squeeze a refund out of Ubi, but it will be more time and trouble than £7 is worth I expect.
If you do get your £7 back however, may I recomend you invest it in a nice bottle of wine to help you put this saga behind you.
