I'm going to reiterate this again, as I've mentioned in a few other threads: $10 is not much, these days. It'll get me:
- ~3 gallons of gasoline, in NY state... that'll get me to work and back 3 days (~22 miles a gallon, ~10 miles to work).
- Less than taking my wife and I out to dinner at a fast food restaurant.
- Less than getting my wife and I coffee at Starbucks (ahem, not coffee, them darn fancy drinks she insists on having)
- A six pack of imported beer with change left over, or a twelve pack of Miller High Life (Champagne of beers! How could you say no?
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- A pair of jeans at Wal-Mart
Need I go on? Ubi, the dev's, etc., all deserve at least this much, if not more. Yeah, SH4 ain't perfect. Take a look around, folks... the world ain't perfect, neither. And if spending a trifle more gets a better product... I'm all for it.
That being said, Elanaiba's comment impressed one thing upon me... it seems like Ubi and the dev's are realizing exactly how dedicated and determined the modding community is. It's something that I've been asking for right along... that they fix & add what they can that has to be hard coded, and let the rest of it be handled through the modding community. There's no sense in the dev's wasting good labor on correcting the label on the German crew's belt buckle... hey, we can do that.
A perfect example: the campaign system. The modding community has already proven that they can put out a more historically accurate and realistic campaign file than the stock. So why should the dev's put labor (which equals $$$ in the corporate world) into fixing something that the modders can? They should concentrate on other things... like making that campaign system load dynamically, keeping performance reasonable. Things like that, hardcoded features, the modding community cannot touch... not until everybody concerned decides to open source it, at least. If you're waiting on that, well... let me know how it works out for you.
That being said, I'm going back to playing now.