What will become of the Silent Hunter Series?

[Onkel Neal]

Possibly. There's nothing to stop Empire Total War publisher Sega or Sub Command EA or any major publisher from investing in a subsim...but I think we would end up with another Battlefield Midway type game.

Or, as you said, a boutique developer, but then it would probably be Russians and you would have another Jutland, Shells of Fury, or PT Boats. I really doubt many people here would be satisfied with a U-boat sim made to that level of detail and quality. The Romanians have spoiled us badly, and like most spoiled children, we don't realize it (not using "children" as an insult, count me in that category too).

I like your line of thinking, Mookie. With the field open, who knows? Ideally, our favorite rock star/subsim dev/super realism historical nut we know and love as...wait, I'm not going to say his name, let me just say D. Dimitresceu...no, Dan D.... and Ioan, Christian, Mihai and the other guys... say they moved on in their careers to work for other companies, then I would be optimistic. But if they stay with Ubi and Ubi kills SH, I'm not to sunny about it.