Should the devs be blamed ?

[gamingdave]

The Devs really didnt promise what some people here think they did.

If the devs produced the game some people want, it would have only sold a handful of copies.

Despite what a lot of you may think, a lot of the things that make it an accurate sim, also make it a dull "game". Ubisoft make games, they have to be fun, and like it or not, they have to appeal to more than a very small group of people. One of the most succesfull franchises of all time, Gran Turismo, claims to be "The Real Driving Simulator". Clearly it is not though, if it was nearly every player would get in their F50, and spin off on the first corner. It has its routes in simulation, but has to bend things a bit to make them fun.

I have to admit, as much as I love the SH series, I have always been a fairweather player, always playing on easier rather than harder settings. What I love is that there is the posibility to do this still. Sure the interface has changed quite dramaticly, but for the vast majority of people who will buy and play SHV (who will never ever come to this site) it has improved for the better, giving them a better gameplay experience.

The devs will have known full well about the hardcore over here, and have built the game so it can be modded. In only a couple of days we already have most of the SH4 interface back in!

As shocking as it may seem to some people, the average long time (high post count) member here ISNT the target audience as far as Ubisoft is concerned. You should be very thankfull that whilst the publisher moves the game in one direction, the developers make it so easy for the very small, but very passionate few, to have the game they want. Therefore to knock the actuall devs is IMO disgracefull, if it wasnt for them, you would have a SHV that was a lot harder to turn into a "full" sim.

Of course bugs are a problem, but they will be fixed, or at least reduced over time. But that is down to the publishers say not the devs. Obviously, the DRM has nothing at all to do with the devs.