My two cents... keep the change.

[scrapser]

Submarine simulations are a betwixt and between genre. There's enough interest to garner making the simulation but not enough to make it affordable to produce to completion before release; hence the half-baked strudel and apple pie we keep getting served. I have proposed a solution many times here and hope someone at Ubisoft will eventually adopt the strategy as I think it's really the only solution.

Since this is such a niche market, I really don't understand the over emphasis on piracy prevention. What Ubisoft should be doing is focusing on a way to make sub sim development a formal joint effort...they develop as much as their budget allows, then make the code available to those who would gladly finish the rest. I say make the code available because there are always some things modders cannot fix because it's locked up in the executable files and only the developers can touch. I think this is the biggest stumbling block to get over.

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Ragtag

These games will never get an increased number of players/buying customers if they continue to release games that's incomplete and rendered with gamebreaking bugs.

Originally Posted by Drewcifer

Well your not going to get it PERIOD. The amount of players that want to engage in gritty intense RIGHT NOW real life graphics war VASTLY outnumber those that want to invest in a month long patrol in a Uboat.

Chicken or egg. We have been going round and round on this debate for years. We can't get a larger fanbase without a more polished game, which we can't get without a larger fanbase, which we can't get without a more polished game, which we....and on and on and on.