Ranting patch released

[ryuzu]

Originally Posted by TDK1044

Silent Hunter 3 made enough money to justify Silent Hunter 4.....just! If Silent Hunter 4 fails to meet its sales target, then you can forget Ubisoft producing another sub sim any time soon.

Is that such a bad thing? Ubi are hardly setting the simulation world on fire.

You see, I think some people are getting the cart before the horse - complaints don't make the game poor quality, the game is poor quality and therefore there are complaints.

There is a point where having a poor quality game is worse than no game at all and game history is littered with games that would have been better just being locked away. The subsim genre has had a good run when you think about it - perhaps more than it deserves given the subject matter. The genre can claim a number of classic games that really explored the subject in detail far greater than most home users could reasonably expect.

To have the "waters" sullied by lacklustre releases from companies that don't really care about it - well, that's a sad epithet to have.

I vaguely remember something about supply and demand, sounds like a workable concept. There's only enough demand for one sub sim to be commercially viable in the PC games market, and Ubisoft are providing it, but if there was a hole in the market for such a thing (a hole left by Ubi disappearing into the depths) then who knows who might try and get something together.

Anyway, Sh4 is here and we just have to make the best of it. Time for moaning and groaning was a year or 14 months ago.

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