Patch No. 2 not to be developed...no more Support?

[urfisch]

This is the question. SH5 seems not to be sold, like they wanted. So the questions appears to me, if there will be no more support on this game. Is there anybody closer to some new info on that? Neal, maybe?

In the german forums there are rumors, which say the game is not beeing patched any more...

[Rockin Robbins]

Rumors are not worth the paper they are not printed on.

[CCIP]

Yeah, info that is speculative is not much better than not info at all. Let's not spread rumors, shall we?

I mean, anyone can say anything right now and it would be about as valid as the opposite. Just wait and see. No sense acting indignant over a bunch of hot air.

[Leandros]

Originally Posted by CCIP

Yeah, info that is speculative is not much better than not info at all. Let's not spread rumors, shall we?

You haven't been in the Navy...?....Rumours are to be amplified and sent on....

[Sonarman]

What makes you think it's not selling well?... it was number 8 in the UK PC chart last week, no 5 in the German PC chart no 8 on the steam chart and no 2 in the UK D2D chart. The only place it doesn't seem to be selling well is on Amazon because of all the damning DRM comments. Perhaps we should post some more positive comments to balance things up a bit and increase the chances on an SH6.

[CCIP]

I'm curious though whether there is some sort of publication agreement stipulated about the number of patches. Notice for example that the previous two games had exactly 3 patches after release (+1 add-on). I know that some major publishers used to limit the number of patches that would be issued for the game before it was even published. Not sure if that is the case anymore. However I would be very surprised if there were no provisions in the contract for this game for post-release support. That's really not how software generally works, so I'd be surprised if it was dropped. Something would have had to gone really, really wrong for that to happen. Honestly, if anything has gone spectacularly wrong so far it's the DRM. If Ubi hasn't dropped the DRM, I would be surprised that they would drop the developers. It's obvious that they're far from desperate at this moment.

Anyway, yeah, I don't think there's any hint of it not selling well, to be honest.

Let this bastard called SH5 die of natural causes.

[Noren]

The lack of feedback is astaunding!

Is'nt it commong sense to patch a game ridden with bugs? That way it could save them some dignity for this release.
Players are screaming for official word in the other forum and the moderators take notice, but still no word from the official channels.

[HundertzehnGustav]

Originally Posted by Gunnodayak

Let this bastard called SH5 die of natural causes.

[Adriatico]

Originally Posted by Gunnodayak

Let this bastard called SH5 die of natural causes.

It could die of unnatural cause - called DRM.

It causes dad born babies... online singleplyer mutants.

[msxyz]

Originally Posted by CCIP

I'm curious though whether there is some sort of publication agreement stipulated about the number of patches. Notice for example that the previous two games had exactly 3 patches after release (+1 add-on). I know that some major publishers used to limit the number of patches that would be issued for the game before it was even published. Not sure if that is the case anymore..

Usually a certain amount of resources and (man hours work of the developers) are set aside for patches even before the game is published. Even the number of 'big' patches is decided before the game comes out.

Unless there's a serious game breaking bug, patches are usually delayed till there are a certain number of issues that need to be resolved to minimize the cost associated with testing and releasing it.

[Noren]

But why why!?!

For 10 years ago there were mostly addons, not patches. Games are becoming more beautiful at the expense of features/testing/customer support. Modders mod for free, because they love the game and thank god for that. Its really quite tragic.