IGN's Silent Hunter 5 Review

mcarlsonus · 03-30-10, 03:40 PM

Depending on, "Unpaid, Volunteer Staff," a.k.a., "Modders" to make the game playable is letting Ubi off too easily. We've ALL enjoyed the largesse of the modders over the years - and so has UBI !!! Quite apparently, they currently labor under the impression they can release even MORE unfinished product - and charge us money for the privilege and honor of using it! Why? Because they know FULL WELL that our faith and confidence in UNPAID SUBSIM TALENT/"MODDERS" allows them to get away with it! Look at, "our" (meaning, "those who bought the product in the past") experience with two previous, "flawed" and, "more-flawed-than-the-one-before" versions. Sense a trend? SH3 - buggy, SH4-buggy beyond belief, SH5 - so flawed, it's virtually unplayable and, in several cases, unrecognizable to those who've invested time and money into previous versions of the same sim...

Remember the days when Modders were the folks who made the gameplay more fun, more realistic, et.al. ? NOW they're expected to make the dang thing SIMPLY WORK PROPERLY! STOP encouraging Ubi, and other similar firms with similar attitudes, by posting comments like, "Oh, the modders'll make this thing playable in a year," or, "that stuff can be fixed by modders," and/or posting stuff that obviously refers to a mod work-around, such as this from a post above, "...Using the old SH interface mod helps a lot...," ad infinitum. Until Ubi either pays these fine folks, or gives away the product for free as it really IS nothing more than an unfinished beta effort, we should hold THEIR feet to the fire - for a change! After all, we're expected to pay hard-earned money for their MINIMAL effort (I suspect they probably spent more on packaging than development!)

mookiemookie · 03-30-10, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by mcarlsonus

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Or we can make the best of what we've got and be happy that we have a modding community that fixes things. I'd much rather have a platform that people can build on than nothing at all.

03-30-10, 03:40 PM	#1
mcarlsonus Weps Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 362 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	Back to my regularly-scheduled rant... Depending on, "Unpaid, Volunteer Staff," a.k.a., "Modders" to make the game playable is letting Ubi off too easily. We've ALL enjoyed the largesse of the modders over the years - and so has UBI !!! Quite apparently, they currently labor under the impression they can release even MORE unfinished product - and charge us money for the privilege and honor of using it! Why? Because they know FULL WELL that our faith and confidence in UNPAID SUBSIM TALENT/"MODDERS" allows them to get away with it! Look at, "our" (meaning, "those who bought the product in the past") experience with two previous, "flawed" and, "more-flawed-than-the-one-before" versions. Sense a trend? SH3 - buggy, SH4-buggy beyond belief, SH5 - so flawed, it's virtually unplayable and, in several cases, unrecognizable to those who've invested time and money into previous versions of the same sim... Remember the days when Modders were the folks who made the gameplay more fun, more realistic, et.al. ? NOW they're expected to make the dang thing SIMPLY WORK PROPERLY! STOP encouraging Ubi, and other similar firms with similar attitudes, by posting comments like, "Oh, the modders'll make this thing playable in a year," or, "that stuff can be fixed by modders," and/or posting stuff that obviously refers to a mod work-around, such as this from a post above, "...Using the old SH interface mod helps a lot...," ad infinitum. Until Ubi either pays these fine folks, or gives away the product for free as it really IS nothing more than an unfinished beta effort, we should hold THEIR feet to the fire - for a change! After all, we're expected to pay hard-earned money for their MINIMAL effort (I suspect they probably spent more on packaging than development!)