When will you buy the game?

[capthelm]

buying it as well soon as it hits the store xx

[Platapus]

What is the difference between option 1 and 4?

[Task Force]

Ill but it after reading a review or two... Im not gonna skip it just cause there isnt everything I want in it...

[Buddahaid]

The thought occurred to me that by not buying until it "hits the bargain bin", is condemning the franchise by making the success boil down to new customers, that may crave exactly what the simulation-or-else crowd does not want. You know, the u-boat/wolfenstein game, which could be fun, but sell it as such. Sure, if the money is dear by all means wait, but otherwise buy and keep the faith.

#6

I'll buy it when the rest of the war, and the rest of the IIs and IXs are added, AND it all comes on one disk.

Priorities:
1: Type IX(A), IXB, IXC.
2: End of war.
3: The Type IIs

(If priorities #1 and #2 are met, I could easily be sold the game without Type IIs.
I have no interest in the Type XXI or the Type XXIII.)

[StarFox]

I'll buy it when I actually have money.....

[V.C. Sniper]

i dun care about when thte war ends or how many subs are in the game all i care about is if its going to be a simulation and that the interior of the sub is going to be realistic and immersive

[Carotio]

Originally Posted by Platapus

What is the difference between option 1 and 4?

1: you'll accept anything offered to you. Even if they cut it further down to just be U-96 on its last Das Boot patrol.
4: you'll buy it even though it doesn't fulfill all your expectations. But in the hope that by buying, they will offer you more content later. To buy too of course.

Multi choice is allowed, vote both if that feels suitable for you.

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

The thought occurred to me that by not buying until it "hits the bargain bin", is condemning the franchise by making the success boil down to new customers, that may crave exactly what the simulation-or-else crowd does not want. You know, the u-boat/wolfenstein game, which could be fun, but sell it as such. Sure, if the money is dear by all means wait, but otherwise buy and keep the faith.

If that's the outcome, so be it. That is for ubisoft. As someone else stated somewhere in here. What if Ubisoft gives up and abandons the underwater world? Does the possibility of another company picking the genre up not exist? Maybe not right away, but eventually, then why not? Maybe a producer who will listen more.
Btw, SH5 as it looks right now, it's exactly that: uboat-wolfenstein as you put it. Das Boot in a video game.

Quite a lot of you speak of a 50$ game. That's 263.31 DKK in my currency, but that's not the usual price for new games here. More likely it will appear at the usual price of 399 or 395 DKK for new games, and that's 75 $. Welcome to my world.

[JScones]

Originally Posted by Carotio

Quite a lot of you speak of a 50$ game. That's 263.31 DKK in my currency, but that's not the usual price for new games here. More likely it will appear at the usual price of 399 or 395 DKK for new games, and that's 75 $. Welcome to my world.

AU$89.95 here...which is US$82. I wonder how many people would think a bit differently if they were expected to pay $82 for SH5 rather than $50.

Add-ons like UBM are usually AU$49.95, or US$46.00...that's near what the Americans are paying for the game itself!

Maybe a topic for a new thread - how much would you pay for SH5 as it currently stands?

[Buddahaid]

It depends on your your market norms. If I recall, SH4 was $78.00 US when it debuted.

[TarJak]

I'm planning to see what is said about it here first, then if it's as bad as SH4 was I'll wait until it hits the bargain bins. If the word is positive I'll probably buy it earlier. I'm in the same economy as JScones and $90-$100 is the norm for a new release game.

The missing pieces for me will be how sustainable the game play is. If it is playable beyond 6 months then I'll consider the $100 a worthy investment if not, it will be on the shelf with some similar poor investments I've made in the past.

[Sailor Steve]

I'll pre-order it, as Neal suggested, a couple of weeks before release. It may be months before I can come up with a computer that will run it, but I trust Dan and his team.

Originally Posted by Platapus

What is the difference between option 1 and 4?

Option 1 is a statement. Option 4 is a reason for that statement. I voted for both.

[Nimmo55]

I'm definately going to wait and see. No way will I buy it if they have dumbed it down and not at least included all the realism bits of SH3/SH4,,,and then improved upon it. Instead, I'll trawl these forums to see what the verdict is...you guys will know a good simulation from an average 'game'...so if the concensus is good, I'll buy...if not, I'll definately wait until the modders do their thing on it and make it a reasonable buy. Not as if there isn't plenty of other stuff to keep me entertained and I am patient. Besides, SH3 and GWX is more than enough to be getting on with...

Nimmo55

[Adriatico]

Being a hopeless subsim maniac... just can't help myself... I'll buy even empty SHV box...

BUT I'LL CONTINUE BITCHING ON THINGS THAT WE DESERVE

All togather... I feel there is too much noise of BUYING and ECONOMY (too much western mentality) and real issues are:
- given capacity of Dev team
- given time and dates
- various wishes of passionate subsimers (including me)
- efort, energy and human limits needed to produce something new and satisfy everybody at the same time

F**k the Ubi... can't we have a pole: Do you think that Devs did their best, to the limits of their mental and physical energy - to satisfy hungry simmers community ?

[Apos]

I'm going first to check game, demo, gameplay videos, reviews. 40 or 50 euro for game is much money in Poland and i dont want to spend them for poor console product game. I'd prefer stay with SHIII+GWX or Modded SHIV.