It's been nice knowing y'all.

[skookum]

I'm bidding you all farewell. Like others, I held out hope that SH5 would somehow shine like a diamond in the rough, a gem pulled from the sandy bottom of the murky English channel, and show us all what inspired creativity could do to, what was until now, a successful game title franchise.

Instead it seems that what we've received (based on user reviews) is a buggy, partially complete concept game, a sketch really, that shows promise in some areas (like morale and story) but ultimately insults the intelligence of those who might purchase and play this game.

The DRM situation is intolerable and all who purchased the game are rightly entitled to a full refund. They do not have access to the services for which they paid.

In this day and age, major game bugs should be history. No console game, no matter how cheaply made, would go to market with major bugs. Are PC gamers somehow less deserving of thorough beta testing and troubleshooting?

Beyond that, my iMac is currently impervious to video card upgrades so I likely can't run SH5 anyways.


So instead of purchasing SH5 and continuing to share my underwater exploits here, I've decided to leave the community. Not necessarily forever mind you, just until a sub title worth trading time from other activities in my life comes along.

I'll likely be lurking once in a while to see if by somehow this bad SH5 mojo blows away (like waking up from a bad dream) and the game magically turns into something stupendous.

I'm not holding my breath.

Anyways, it's been fun knowing y'all. Best of luck and take care.