The gawd-almighty merged DRM in Silent Hunter V thread

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Originally Posted by trenken

No, it allows them to create their own expansions and actually try to turn a decent profit on this franchise. When they can make more money, thats good for us too you know. Thats means we get more games.

None of us knows if this would have been the end of the road for SH, its certainly always possible in a genre like this. But if they can put a great expansion out, get a bunch of us to buy it, well that certainly helps raise the chances for SH6. Or if SH6 was going to happen either way, then it gives them some more $$ to dump into it. That works for me.

Thats how I look at things. I dont think about things in just the short term all the time, all negative about everything, hanging on to the past, only worried about myself. I actually want them to make as much money as possible, and ill give some of mine to them if I feel the expansions are good enough. Many people will regardless. You dont have to buy SH5 if you dont want.

I don't begrudge them profit, before this DRM nonsense I would have bought this AND NEVER PLAYED IT just to give some money to the devs.

Regardless, they can make add-ons, fine. The trouble is that they have a history of making ZERO games or add-ons that are even remotely accurate historically. The SH4 stock campaign is 100% rubbish. Not worth playing. It is my understanding that SH3 was no better in this regard. So that means for those of us that wish a simulation are simply SOL without mods.

So what you are saying is that this is a great idea as long as the customer wants an arcade game experience, not a sub-sim. You may be right, but in this forum, I think you'll find yourself vastly outnumbered.

Or are you making some point I'm missing?