Are you you rooting for failure for SH5?

[Ships-R-Us]

Originally Posted by IanC

SH3 sold well didn't it? If SH4 didn't it's because it was unfinished and very buggy. If SH5 fails in sales it will be because of the DRM/OSP. So in my opinion, if the SH series ends, it will be squarely the fault of Ubisoft and its decisions. Not the customers.
Like with any other thing, give the customers what they want (within reason needless to say), and you'll have great sales. What would've happened to Coca-Cola if it decided to stick with its 'new coke' even though the customers disliked it? And if Coca-Cola went down because of it, who's fault would that be, Coca-Cola or the customers?

You bring up a good and easy to understand point. I guess all the games had bugs and flaws which the modders turned into great artwork. Take SH4, out of the box, and to a casual game player it was a great game to many from that perspective. The historic diehard simmers viewed it dirrerently. Having said so, SH5 to the majority of the general game playing populus will be a great game out of box, and those people exist in far greater numbers than the majority of members on this forum. That is I believe where Ubisofts target and numbers are.