I take the point publishers dont make a lot of money from these games, but thats hardly surprising given the average experience you get (joy and skull-cracking frustration in equal measure). I'm amazed PC games sell as much as they do given the hassle involved in playing them.
MaxT - I'm no hardcore sim-head and have never play a sub game before, so I guess i'm your 'main public'. I don't want 100% realism, I want enjoyment. I can say for the record that I wouldn't buy another SH game if it was in this state. For a start, the absence of any tutorial will put off most mainstream gamers (the game 'tutorials' are just mini missions, a tutorial actually teaches you how to do things).
The real problem thats killing my enjoyment is the problem of repeating missions - being asked to patrol of Honshu for the 4th running is starting to bore me. Such an easy bug to fix! Having read through this (excellent) forum I've tracked down Trigger Maru and hopefully that will fix it (once I've figured out how to install it).
Point is though that when the average PC game requires you to go to all this effort just to get a DECENT game experience, its never going to draw in enough people to make big money. Years of effort making teriffic games are spoilt by releasing them a couple of months early.
Oh and Fredbass - 'Who governs and holds a publisher responsible for their work anyway?'
Consumer Rights laws. Every country has them. They say that when you buy a product its supposed to be in 'good working order' or similar. Although thats open to interpretation, in my humble experience a lot of PC games arent, SHIV included
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