Business As Usual

[TDK1044]

Reading through the initial threads of the early days of Silent Hunter 5, it really is business as usual.

The same complaints and armchair indignation that greeted Silent Hunter 3 and Silent Hunter 4 are once again front and center.

I think any experienced member here knew that Silent Hunter 5 was going to exhibit the same kind of issues as it's predecessors, and with the addition of the awful DRM.

So everyone knew what they were getting......a game that will be great in the fruition of time (6 to 12 months) and which will require significant patching and modding. Sound familiar?

Bitching at the Devs for doing what their Publisher insisted that they do is a waste of time. The game is what it is, and the reason that it is as modable as it is, is because the Devs went out of their way to build it that way.

Give this game a year, and I believe we'll have a superb subsim to play. But you have to understand that you have invested your $49 in a product that won't be finished for about 12 months.

Knowing the history of this franchise, you really couldn't have expected anything different.

Ubisoft chose to target this game at the casual gamer, and also add DRM in the naive belief that they would reduce piracy. More fool them if they really believed that.

I choose to wait at least six months before purchasing the game. Once the game is heavily patched and modded, I'll buy it, but I'm not jumping through Ubisoft's hoops in the meantime.