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Originally Posted by maerean_m

Let us suppose you work for 3-4 month, non stop, including all Saturdays and Sundays. Every month has 170 working hours and yet they make squeeze another 90 (ninety) extra hours every month. You barely get to see you girlfriend\wife, let alone your parents. And what if you were the lucky guy that only worked 9h/day and others, like the Lead Designer, had to work until midnight (in many days) to get those subs working.

Let us suppose your colleagues are incredibly good professionals but the team is not left in peace to work its magic and the results are called SH4 v1.0 . If SH4 was a console game, there wouldn't have been any patch, including 1.1 . I dare you play SH4 out of the box.

After that, the team is scattered, working on other various projects and very few are left to work and create patch 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3. Imagine the quality of the work done inside SH4 if only a couple of the team members could get it to the 1.3 state in such a short time. It means the project was almost there, it just wasn't allowed to be completed.

In the end, let us suppose that you begin to see the bosses coming to work in brand new, incredibly expensive cars, even though no dev team member received any bonus money.

After 4 months of continuous work, you are so tired you're getting physically ill.

So I'm wondering, what do you actually mean by "MY company"? I'm just one of the 3000 working-ants there. I work to earn a living, I'm not their bought out slave, the way you seem to think.

I come here, among friends, to talk about the game we all love and play in our spare time (including mine). And maybe improving the game, using the tools each one of us has. So the game gets in a state in which I can read the posts here and be proud about Silent Hunter 4. Imagine how the dev team felt when they were presented with the dvd containing SH4 v1.0 and they read the posts here .

Thankfuly, Subsim is not "Ubi forums". If you want an official opinion about SH4, you go there and talk to the support team guys (that we didn't meet and don't even know in what country they're located in).

I'm not trying to hurt anybody, all I'm talking about is being allowed to be proud about my work. Doesn't everybody?

Edit:

Did you know that SH4 team never got the time to actually play the game (like stop working and play it for a month (or a week, or a day)) ? Only the testers did play it, but they only report bugs they understand, because they don't play Silent Hunter the way you do. They didn't notice the stadimeter was buged when using imperial units (you guys were the only ones that reported it).



So, What the **** is wrong with people?

Now here is someone who knows what he is talking about. I have received more useful information from his few posts in this thread than I have received from all the thousands of posts I have read on all the forums I have read.
I bow down to you for having the integrity to tell the truth instead of remaining silent or even lying to protect the parasitic suits who caused SHIV to be released unfinished.
What is wrong with him badmouthing his employer? Because of his employer, I am not buying SHIV. My download speed is 3kb/sec. I cannot have my telephone offline for the DAYS it would take to download the current patch. If his employers do not want to be bad-mouthed, then they should change the way they do business.
Be glad, be VERY glad that there are developers out there who take pride in their work. These are the only ones who will ever produce the games that rate 100. If he had a work ethic similar to the Ubi suits, how much worse would SHIV version 1 have been?
Although I am not buying the game, still I thank you for doing the absolute best you could do in the allotted time.