I think that Ubi deserves our support too. Unlike all of the other software companies out there they have decided to take the risk of investing in a subsim.
SH2/DC was not great but the bulk of the blame for that lies with "The learning company/SSI" and Ultimation along with Sony the developers of RTime who would not let Ultimation modify the multiplayer engine source code. Ubi came in very late in the day and tried to make the best of a bad situation.
With Harpoon IV they learned from their mistake, even after spending a years extra dev time/money to try and fix the game to a release standard they still had the integrity to cancel the product and write it off as a loss rather than release it.
With all that in mind it is to Ubisoft's credit that they decided to develop SH3 the best subsim ever and even delayed release by about 8 months specifically to satisfy our demands for a dynamic campaign.
SH3 was relatively bugfree on release apart from the bow wake problem which was caused not by UBi but by nVidia changing elements of it's graphic drivers. Ubi then went on to release patches up to v1.4 including extra features/fixes such as the protractor etc.
They have continued to support us by developing SH4 and we should continue to support them
Vive la France!
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