I've been playing this franchise since SH2. I've given lots of money to Ubi. I've also been on these forums for years, contributed to the coffers of SubSim, even volunteered a little time to make an unofficial installer for one of the early GW releases; I've done far less than many, but this is just by way of saying, I love this game in all its incarnations and I cherish the SubSim community.
That said, I think there is an unfortunate trait that some of us have to dismiss any criticism of the game as flaming, ungrateful, inappropriate, etc. While we can all agree that "This game sux!" is not a valid criticism, attacking/warning/vaguely threatening or impugning the gamesmanship of those who make real suggestions for improvement of real flaws is equally unhelpful. There is nothing inappropriate, for example, about this thread, except for the fact that it got so ugly so quickly. In too many of these threads, criticising the game seems to be viewed akin to criticising someone's mother. We
did pay a lot of money for this game and it
should work as advertised. Does the fact that I think that make me an unimaginative whiner, a whimp or a baaaad sub captain? Maybe, but I prefer the real-world view that I'm simply a dedicated gamer who paid a lot of money for a game that he loves but that desperately needs improvement. Ubi are big boys; they don't need to be sheltered from criticism, they need our constuctive comments and encouragement to make their product (the one we support with our $$$) better.
I suggest in future that we honor those who post here by assuming that they love the game and only want to see it improved, unless they tell us otherwise, by saying something demonstrably useless... like "This game sux!".
