sh5 needs

[HKLE]

Hi folks

I think, I shall never get my hands on SH5 - no offline version, patches leave a lot to be desired and - as stated above - a campaign which seems to be playable only through modding (unrealistic targets, start only on one date, scripted, only a few merchants or other ships) and so on.

I never thought, that I get bored from looking at the poor guys here in this and related forums struggling to get this piece going (the modders, the game "owners"). The more I read here, the less I want to even consider buying it.

I had a brief look at it at a friends house - the grahics are really nice, but playability ????

I think, the developers had an easy choice from the start - a very active community, a lot of documented expectations - and they decided to turn most of it down.

I think, the main reason for this decision was the fear, that the community was too small to make it a commercial success. So they went for this egoshooter type approach in favor over the old style command driven UI. Unfortunately, they obviously got cut in their development time, because UBI needed to test its new DRM scheme - the result was a pre-alpha version of the game at full price and a lot of frustrated customers !

The situation now seems worse than in the beginning - a few patches did not do any real good, the communication between UBI and its - SH5 - customer base is not existing - and the Modders are left alone with an almost impossible task.

Even if it has been discussed over and over (and I heatedly participated myself in the past) - but I really think, that this type of DRM does not fit on this type of game. While it may be successful in hindering some pirates, it may fail as overall commercial success, as a lot of customers turned away.

Of course, we will never see some figures on sales by UBI. But just the fact, that UBI is not communicating and rushing out only the most basic patches to an alpha-stadium game, suggests to me, that it is not such a great commercial success.

So - UBI - if you want to show some dedication - then go back to the drawboards and bring us some of the promises, which many of us expected to become true - the basic contents of SH3 + wolfpacks + + +

A walkable interiour and nicer graphics as trade off for just one U-boat type, for a boring campaign setup like this, for the "online slavery" with no rights just duties, for a lot less ships and so on - is a poor show .... honestly.

[scrapser]

...to be put down. Why did Ubisoft bother? I would really like to know the answer from them instead of speculation.

The Silent Hunter franchise desperately needs a new sponsor who has a genuine interest and the ability to develop submarine simulations to a reasonable degree of completion.