For all fairness

Skybird · 02-07-07, 02:35 PM

I bought DW second hand, tested 1.03 and was so pissed that I sold it to the brother of a friend again, last year. My almost exclusive interest was in steering the subs - and their steering was badly broken. I just kept the manual, which I fell in love with from the beginning.

I were with those two guys last weekend. they did not know of 1.04 (they had shelved the sim, too). I told them of 1.04 being out, we decided to give it a go, and then we spend the rest of the day and the better part of the night with it, and I came back on Monday, and tested the subs even more.

After TWO years, I finally was satisfied with what I saw.

I have voiced quite some criticism two years ago, and also warned - and later: laughed - about the ridiculous marketing strategy of making potentially interested customers staying away by not taking care that serious flaws in a prodcut do get repaired within a reasonable timeframe. the damage they have created has hurt themselves, and as was said, sales did not go as well as expected. So, no surprise here.

But for reasons of fairness I also want to say - in public - after my many criticisms, that finally DW seem to be a good, stable, reasonable simulation and that now it makes sense to invest the many hours of gameplay into steering the subs. I might even be tempted to buy it a second time.

Two years! If only it wouldn't have costed them so long. The late arrival of 1.04 may bring DW's subs into playable shape now, but one must have serious doubts that this will revive the initial potential interest there was. It's a solid sim now, but as a sad matter of fact: it became that far too late. The market does not function in reverse time mode.

I am currently busy with other stuff and private things, but I probably will buy it again in spring or summer this year (that friend of mine does not want to sell it back to me now, 1.04 made him a believer again, too). For a full-price product (intially even more expensive), 1.04 is what should have been one and a half year earlier.

My dispute with DW is settled.

02-07-07, 02:35 PM	#1
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,643 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	For all fairness I bought DW second hand, tested 1.03 and was so pissed that I sold it to the brother of a friend again, last year. My almost exclusive interest was in steering the subs - and their steering was badly broken. I just kept the manual, which I fell in love with from the beginning. I were with those two guys last weekend. they did not know of 1.04 (they had shelved the sim, too). I told them of 1.04 being out, we decided to give it a go, and then we spend the rest of the day and the better part of the night with it, and I came back on Monday, and tested the subs even more. After TWO years, I finally was satisfied with what I saw. I have voiced quite some criticism two years ago, and also warned - and later: laughed - about the ridiculous marketing strategy of making potentially interested customers staying away by not taking care that serious flaws in a prodcut do get repaired within a reasonable timeframe. the damage they have created has hurt themselves, and as was said, sales did not go as well as expected. So, no surprise here. But for reasons of fairness I also want to say - in public - after my many criticisms, that finally DW seem to be a good, stable, reasonable simulation and that now it makes sense to invest the many hours of gameplay into steering the subs. I might even be tempted to buy it a second time. Two years! If only it wouldn't have costed them so long. The late arrival of 1.04 may bring DW's subs into playable shape now, but one must have serious doubts that this will revive the initial potential interest there was. It's a solid sim now, but as a sad matter of fact: it became that far too late. The market does not function in reverse time mode. I am currently busy with other stuff and private things, but I probably will buy it again in spring or summer this year (that friend of mine does not want to sell it back to me now, 1.04 made him a believer again, too). For a full-price product (intially even more expensive), 1.04 is what should have been one and a half year earlier. My dispute with DW is settled.