SH5 Constant Connection Requirement Dropped

[SeaWolf U-57]

Originally Posted by janh

Right, I should have put it more general -- it wasn't meant particularly about any one person, but ridiculing anybody is surely not making this forum more appealing to outside readers.

I don’t think you can make a statement like this in any one thread contained in the SH5 Forums.
Just take a look at about 90% of all the threads the continuous scraping between Members and the
slamming of this product has taken a huge toll on the Silent Hunter Forums as a whole.
Just take a look at the viewing numbers on most sites and see how much of a drop they are suffering.
If you don’t use something and have no intention of buying it or even that your computer cannot run it how can you think that any comment you make about it is a valid comment in the first place this should be the Question.

[janh]

Originally Posted by SeaWolf U-57

I don’t think you can make a statement like this in any one thread contained in the SH5 Forums. Just take a look at about 90% of all the threads the continuous scraping between Members and the slamming of this product has taken a huge toll on the Silent Hunter Forums as a whole. Just take a look at the viewing numbers on most sites and see how much of a drop they are suffering.

That's the only reason for my original comment. I have been following subsim since 2002, or 2003 (I don't recall, maybe even before), and most intensely after jumping into SHIII. But you might be right, the tone at subsim has changed over the years. I don't embrace that, though. It is still an enjoyable forum. But I start to regret my original post -- should I better have sit back and watch the show unfold again, as in so many previous threads?

Originally Posted by SeaWolf U-57

If you don’t use something and have no intention of buying it or even that your computer cannot run it how can you think that any comment you make about it is a valid comment in the first place this should be the Question.

I am convinced it will run it one day (soon?) -- else I would not be coming to this forum and watch how the modding community makes progress. So I do have plans to buy it, but I have decided to wait primarily to until the modding has made so much progress that it can surpass the supermodded SHIII I got so used to. But this doesn't change my opinion that ridiculing and all this kind of discussion (this as well), doesn't make this forum any better.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by SeaWolf U-57

I don’t think you can make a statement like this in any one thread contained in the SH5 Forums.
Just take a look at about 90% of all the threads the continuous scraping between Members and the
slamming of this product has taken a huge toll on the Silent Hunter Forums as a whole.
Just take a look at the viewing numbers on most sites and see how much of a drop they are suffering.
If you don’t use something and have no intention of buying it or even that your computer cannot run it how can you think that any comment you make about it is a valid comment in the first place this should be the Question.

I've actually spent most of my time mitigating between the absolute haters and the absolute lovers, and I have never condemned SH5 - just the DRM part. Regarding your last sentence, I have every intention of buying it, even though my current computer probably will not run it. I bought SH4 knowing I couldn't play it right away, as I was homeless at the time and couldn't play anything. Since this is a thread stating that part of the DRM has been dropped, and my only comment was that I wouldn't buy it until they completely and officially removed the DRM. Considering those circumstances, do you still think my comments are invalid?