What is your expectations on SH4 ? #1 SH4 player

03-18-07, 12:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Faamecanic

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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Shipshape, I don't think patches are limited to SH4 or Ubisoft. Every game I have bought since and including Aces of the Deep has gotten things fixed with patches. I know, and many of you also know, with all games, the publisher sets a deadline and the devs have to meet it. Sometimes the deadline is pushed back, as was the case with SH3. There are never cases where the devs of a game finish early and play pool the last three weeks before the deadline

And it's business as usual for the game to be sent to replication and then the devs keep right on working to finish, improve, and polish it, resulting in a patch on release day.

I won't suggest players ignore legitimate glitches with the game and I think as long as people appear relatively calm in their discussions, they should express their feelings. Post your findings in the bug thread, the devs read it.

Neal and others.....

Not that Im trying to flame here... but I think the reason more and more games are shipping these days half finished is because we ACCEPT the fact that its "ok as long as they patch". And this applies to more than just UBISOFT. EASports is HORRIBLE for releasing half finished games (ie bugs that have carried over through 2 or 3 Madden years, NFL Head coach...)

I can honestly say that if it wasnt for all the EXCELENT modders here...SH3 would have died a quick death on my HDD due to Ubi never FIXING what was blatantly broke in SH3, even after patch 1.4b. I got bored after my first patrol, and disgusted when my Type XXI that I saved up for turned out to be a piece of junk (battery bug, sonar bug...to name two). If it wasnt for GWX re-igniting my passion for SH3...I would have never played past 1 patrol (again THANKS GWX guys...you ROCK)

Now with that said...I sure hope SH4 dosent have a bug fest from day one. Because if we dont buy SH4...what other new subsim is there? Will I buy SH4...of course.... only because the fun factor outweighs the bugs, at least for now.

I have to agree with Faamecanic. PC games these days are being released buggier and more unfinished than ever, with promises to fix them later, because most players will buy the games no matter what. There is one group in this forum that says we are lucky to get any SH4 at all. I partially agree with this thinking. But, I cannot totally agree, because if the publishers of SH4 know that players will buy SH4 no matter how buggy it's released, then that only encourages them to release more and more buggy games later. There should be limits to what we as the paying customers will put up with regarding the purchase unfinished, buggy games. If we buy buggy, half-finished games and tell everyone else to do the same, then it only encourages and rewards the game publishers to release more and more broken, unfinished games. I'm sure that the SH4 development team cares deeply about releasing the best, bug free SH4 that they could. But it's probably the bean counters at Ubisoft publishing that forces an early, unfinished release of their games. Whatever happens with SH4, let's not blame the developers. With all that being said, if they release the SDK's for SH3 and SH4, I have no problems with these two games being unfinished or buggy.