Do we really need a Silent Hunter 6?

[Heretic]

Originally Posted by goldorak

If Ubisoft introduces DLC you can kiss modding goodbye 100% sure.
Look at whappened to MW2, no ability to mod whereas the first chapter had that possibility. The result, you end up paying 5 maps (2 of which are recycled from MW) 15 $. Is this the kind of business model you want for SH 6 ? Really ?
10 $ for a set of gauges
10 $ for a functional TDC
10 $ for a working realistic interface
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an so on....

Oh yeah. I forgot how the U-boat add-on made SH4 unmoddable. Silly me.

[Kapitanleutnant]

Originally Posted by Heretic

Oh yeah. I forgot how the U-boat add-on made SH4 unmoddable. Silly me.

An expansion pack is different from DLC. Hope this helps.

[Heretic]

Originally Posted by Kapitanleutnant

An expansion pack is different from DLC. Hope this helps.

DLC is just a delivery mechanism for new content. There is nothing inherent in it that disables modding. For example, there are numerous DLC for Oblivion and Fallout 3, and they remain very moddable and are some of the most modded games out there. The DLC themselves have been modded. Saying DLC means the end of modding is a provably false argument.

[goldorak]

Originally Posted by Heretic

DLC is just a delivery mechanism for new content. There is nothing inherent in it that disables modding. For example, there are numerous DLC for Oblivion and Fallout 3, and they remain very moddable and are some of the most modded games out there. The DLC themselves have been modded. Saying DLC means the end of modding is a provably false argument.

Say that again when you won't be able to mod YOUR specific game.
Game companies are very quick to change tune when they see something working. You think Ubisoft is not looking at Activision and how they completely managed to close down the MW modding comunity ? How they are able to capitalise milions of dollars in what are basically 3 maps that the comunity could have designed for free overnight ?

[janh]

Originally Posted by goldorak

You think Ubisoft is not looking at Activision and how they completely managed to close down the MW modding comunity ? How they are able to capitalise milions of dollars in what are basically 3 maps that the comunity could have designed for free overnight ?

Could you elaborate a bit on that? What happened, and what were the consequences?

I suspect that to happen at some point in the future (EDIT) with some of the publishers (but maybe not SH -- based on Elenaiba's response a few weeks ago to the comments on this forum). So maybe this not so surprising. In some sense modders present competition to a company, if that company decides to publish extra-content/addons for cash returns. And if the modders at that point are so talented, dedicated and have the right tools/scripting language etc so powerful that they can provide something similar, or even more detailed/realistic etc.

I assume if Ubisoft decided to publish the 43-45 part, or each other sub separately as DLC or boxed addon, but modders here would be as fast to provide models or mods of close or even better quality, that would not make Ubi personel or their investors very happy.

[goldorak]

Originally Posted by Heretic

Oh yeah. I forgot how the U-boat add-on made SH4 unmoddable. Silly me.

You also forgot that the expansion was a paid patch to SH 4. Silly you.

[PL_Andrev]

Pfff... did you think about bugs list in "new" SH6?

Bugs list of SH6 will include:
1) Bugs that were known at the SH3
2) Bugs that were known at the SH4
3) Bugs that were known at the SH5
4) And new SH6 bugs.

[goldorak]

Originally Posted by Antar

Pfff... did you think about bugs list in "new" SH6?

Bugs list of SH6 will include:
1) Bugs that were known at the SH3
2) Bugs that were known at the SH4
3) Bugs that were known at the SH5
4) And new SH6 bugs.

well at least the modders will have something to do.

[mengle]

i don't want no SH VI for the upcomming years maybe in 7 years or so when the have new game improvements