Bugs, Lawsuits, Fanbois, Outcries and other nostalgia, but why did this classic die?

[Nisgeis]

There is a somewhat cyclical nature of a release of a Silent Hunter game.

We all know that when there is a new release of a Silent Hunter game, there will be the pre-release frothing of people imagining ludicrous scenarios - "Wouldn't it be cool if you could be DCed and go down to 300m and have to tighten a bolt to stop a leak, but if you over tightened it then it would snap off and then you'd all die'.

Then there's the release and the bug threads which all say "Why didn't the bug testers pick up the fact that the deck of cards would have a 1940s font? This is unacceptable!".

Then the fanbois appear (this may also occur at the pre-release stage) and defend Ubisoft to the hilt, not matter how ludicrous their assertions are (having a half finished buggy game is Mmm-Kay).

Then the outcries from the general user base who had no part in the pre-release stages who have actually played the game and have noticed that the manual does not describe the game and are therefore confused as to how to play the game.

But the classic response, which I have not yet seen on the SH5 forums, used to be a response that many would wait for, but it seems to have fallen by the wayside. Perhaps too much weight has been given to the complainers.

The phrase that I miss, which used to raise a wry smile on my face was:

"Would you like cheese with your whine?".

Why amongst all the other stuff that has been resurrected and re-used is this phrase not amongst them? I don't believe that I have seen this even once on the Silent Hunter 5 forums. It's time that phrase came back! It was simple, yet effective.