I've been looking through this forum, reading up to see if it's worth buying.
I love the Silent Hunter series and since I've had GWX installed, SHIII has been transformed and I'm once again enjoying it.
But I don't get it...I see lots of "Well done devs" and "Good work devs" and "Keep up the good work devs" and an awful lot of
....what is wrong with us that we actually congratulate developers on trapping bugs after they've sold us the game? Why do we congratulate and thank for allowing us to BETA test a product we paid full price for? (that's the royal "we", as I will not be purchasing it until it's fixed...so I am keeping a keen eye on these forums...which is why I picked up on this)
Before anyone goes haywire at me for posting this, I am a developer and I know it's "virtually" impossible to release bug free software. I, personally, have released various programs and always had bug reports back. And I do know the contraints put on developers by publishers....but some things are completely inexcusable.
For example, I created and released software which processed NVQs. There were some bugs in it...but it
did process NVQs. I mean...if a particular piece of software was specifically designed to perform a specific task, then it is my job, as the developer, to make sure that core function worked...and I can honestly say that as a developer, never have I released software where the key components were not fully functioning.
I'm sorry...but submarine warfare is designed to specifically fight using torpedoes as it's primary weapon system...and as such, torpedo calculations are a key feature...and the fact that this was released bugged is unforgiveable...so I don't get why people compliment and thank developers for finding these bugs which, frankly, should never have manifested at all...period. Someone thought to program the ability to have two torpedo speeds...did no one honestly check to make sure that both torpedo speeds worked?
Is that the kind of service we've come to expect nowadays?
Sorry for ranting...but I couldn't sit back and watch all this thumbs up malarky. This game is still sitting on the shop wall begging me to purchase it...and as much as I want to....