After Neal started his petition I had the awkward feeling that news like this was gonna come out pretty soon.....unfortunately my gut feeling was right.
It is a pretty dumb move by UBI to hype a game the way they hyped SH IV and then deliver a half-finished product...a pimped version of SHIII. This will chase people away from subsimming because they might think that this disaster is the norm for subsims.
They could have done a better job if they had taken some of the marketing budget and spent it on the development of what could have been a worthy sequel: the ultimate subsim.
And now we are forced to beg UBI if they would please do us the courtesy of releasing another patch....
What a farce.....
I too bought SH IV on the day it was released and I have hardly played it since then...I should have spent the dough laid out for SH IV on some good books about the war in the Atlantic......
Luckily I still have a gem of a subsim on my rig....it is called SH III. Although UBI did not perfect this game either, they at least delivered a good base product which the modders have turned into something beautiful..this has added enormously to the lifespan of SHIII; I'm sure copies are sold even today.
Stopping the dev team from producing another needed patch will not give SH IV the same lifespan; a move that is 'penny wise but pound foolish' in my opinion.
Maybe the modders over here can make SH IV into something that resembles the game it could have been when it was released. But with a flawed basis to work with, this will not be easy, if at all possible...
I for my part will not ever buy a game again without having had a good look at it first....companies like UBI need to protect their investments and I need to protect mine as well.
The way it is now SH IV was a bad investment; besides the whole manner in which business is done gives me a pretty bad taste in the mouth.....
For now my crew needs me....U 46 here I come
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