Patch No.2 - DELAYED 4/20/2010 [Master Thread]

[Westbroek]

Fishing Rocks!! The surround sound is way better than any 5.1 system in my opinion. I feel the same way...put a controller in my hand and I feel like I'm wasting time.
If I'm playing SH5, I can delude myself into feeling productive

[Athlonic]

OT:

Ubisoft forums are down. (EDIT up again but slow)

Strange isn't it ?

Too many complainers posting awfull threads at once ?

And just when I saw a "OSP & Server Downtime" thread by a forum admin...

[The General]

Originally Posted by John Channing

OK.. so I understand the rules some of you are playing by.

Ubisoft releases software before it is ready: BAD UBISOFT

Have I pretty much got that right?

JCC

No, you haven't got it right. It actually goes a little something like this:

Ubisoft continually releases software before it's ready: NO MORE UBISOFT

This further delay may have something to do with the eruption in Iceland.

Or.

Ubisoft have finally learnt their lesson and are allowing the Devs to finish their work.

This delay of course means that this will definitely be the last Patch for Silent Hunter 5: Battle of the Atlantic

[naval_noob]

I wonder if it is because of the volcano....

[John Channing]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

The only good UBIsoft is a dead UBIsoft!

Just gettin' into the spirit of things.

GIVE ME PATCH, OR GIVE ME DEATH!


Hey, you're right... this is fun!

JCC

[Mithrandir]

Hi all,
I think that all we can say is that Ubisoft has shown very poor planning management abilities... At first becaues they were forced to release something unfinished for commercial considerations (schedule elongation?), and at second because they have no idea of the time required for the planned SW fixing activities. That's all.
I think they have no bad intentions, the developers are probably very good (you have to be more than good in programming to produce such a SW), the same probably can not be said about their management... It is a quite common problem, in my opinion!

Bye,
Mith

[Takao]

Not strange at all that the Ubi servers are down.

Everyone is logging in to complain about the missed patch date, and that crashed the server. Ubi will probably claim another DDOS attack....

[Westbroek]

We'll have to pry the patch... From Their COLD DEAD HANDS!!!!
Let's Tread on them!

I'm really to laid back to be a revolutionary...looking forward to hearing the new fixes though.

[Takao]

Yeah, US!

[msxyz]

Originally Posted by severniae

In fairness, I can't remember buying any software that worked perfectly from version 1.00 straight out of the box.

You didn't buy software in pre internet era.

And before someone comes out and says "oh but software wasn't so complex", let me point that developing tools scaled with complexity so, actually it's much more easier to code and add content nowadays than 10 or 20 years ago when developers, aside from some compiler, had nothing to begin with.

You could count the bugs in complex and content rich games like Ultima 6,7 or Civilization (just to name a few) on the fingers of one hand.

The same could be said about consoles. Patches spread only with these generation of consoles. In the past, every bug that slipped QA was there to stay and game developers got very bad rep from that.

How many gamers are old enough to remember the Bethesda "Buggerfall" fiasco? To be fair, Daggerfall was relatively bug free, if compared to the state of some software (even blockbusters) that gets shipped today.

Maybe software publishers are lucky that today generation of gamers is relatively ignorant of how things were in the past. But to the 30-something generation, the "release today, fix later" politic is complete, utter crap.

[SteamWake]

I think they delay it just to foster forum traffic and help with the per clicks sponsers

Oh that and just to piss you off.

[The General]

Originally Posted by Mithrandir

Hi all,
I think that all we can say is that Ubisoft has shown very poor planning management abilities...

Once upon a time, in the long-suffering land of Romania, Ubisoft (in the Ivory Tower) called down to the poor people (The Devs) in the village at the base of the gleaming tower and asked how much time & money they'd need to produce another sequel in the Silent Hunter franchise. The Devs thought about it long and hard and gave them an answer. Ubisoft listened to their reply with a stern face, told them to cut both time & money by half or they'd lose their jobs and be unable feed their families....The End.

[msxyz]

Originally Posted by IanC

No, never.

Well, now that even consoles can download and install patches, say welcome to the new trend of releasing unfinished and buggy games!

[Commie]

Originally Posted by The General

Once upon a time, in the long-suffering land of Romania, Ubisoft (in the Ivory Tower) called down to the poor people (The Devs) in the village at the base of the gleaming tower and asked how much time & money they'd need to produce another sequel in the Silent Hunter franchise. The Devs thought about it long and hard and gave them an answer. Ubisoft listened to their reply with a stern face, told them to cut both time & money by half or they'd lose their jobs and be unable feed their families in the long-suffering land of Romania....The End.

Yeah well in Romania they have a recent history of overthrowing their nasty overlords! Maybe the devs should run amok?

[Lord Justice]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

I think they delay it just to foster forum traffic and help with the per clicks sponsers

This remark i find very pleasing. Good stuff