No way to buy silent hunter 5 on steam

Post from one of the Devs on Subsim.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=163099&page=2

elanaiba said:
Well, I cannot post everything that I could say, indeed. But still:

Negative Feedback received about Silent Hunter generally fits into the following categories:

A - wrong expectations (some thing are just not in the scope of sh5)
B - legitimate concerns about bugs and unfinished features - Most are NOT news to me, since I have a list bigger than the forum. Trust me, you cannot match my expectations - but then again, the same could be said by most of the serious, passionate game developers out there.
C - legitimate concerns about some design choices - like for example the interface. Part of these I can understand, but I am not that concerned since most can be fixed easily by modding. Getting a SH4 style interface back in the game is very easy.

As I was saying in another thread, I have no reservations that WITH TIME (equal patches + mods) this will be THE ONLY SUBSIM TO PLAY. Calling this game arcade is wrong, its no more arcade than SH3 or 4. Calling this an RPG is partly wrong, is simply as simulation as the games before but with an extra layer of RPG like crew development.

I am not at all happy with the current state of the RPG parts (long story) but:
a) nobody is forcing people to use them
b) they can be modded into something more realistic

I will stand by the concept of the RPG parts any day, because I have read enough books to understand that some things that happen in war are simply not justified by technical specifications and field manuals. At some point the man is the one that matters the most.

Before I close this down, I have two more things to say:

1) Ubisoft is a company, of which Ubisoft Romania is a part. Please stop separating the two. Not everything that is good is our merit, not everything that is bad is "the suits" fault. I, of all people, have my parts in the failures of SH5. The people "high up" could have simply decided not to do another SH, just as you guys can choose not to buy.

2) Please stop trying to create a war / antagonism between modders and devs, we need each other.

So, for my final statement of the day, NO, I am not happy with the state of SH5. Of course, except for SH3 - which was not perfect either - I have never been happy with the release of any of my projects.

I have much trust in the potential of SH5, but I am not a fortune teller. Did I quit my job after the launch? No. Am I not a man? I wonder.

People might not buy the game, miss on fun, and not suffer any problems that the game has at the moment. But for the guys that did invest their trust in us, I'd say they need us here.

Yes, Gunnodayak, it took me time to write this long answer, and I waited for the lunchbreak in order not to disturb my current work assignments.
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Nate
 
When a dev says that legitimate complaints can be dealt with by the modders you know it's time to abandon a series :(
 
This is now available to buy on steam for only £39.99

http://store.steampowered.com/app/48110/

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Yer 'avin a larf :D

Those buying can look forward to gems like, "Extreme Speed Ahead" :eek::eek: :p

In all fairness it does look lovely but was released WAYYYYYYYY to early. I would suggest waiting until the modders work their magic.
 
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Mine's been despatched from the book shop, so I'll give it a go next week sometime. The Steam price is crazy (at least a tenner overpriced) considering the DRM.
 
I had little hope for this sim right from its initial announcement I'm afraid. I had seen how the devs had failed to support SH3 and SH4, and how they had released both of them in an inadequate state.

There really have been some howlers. Like, for example, in Silent Hunter 3, for quite a long time it wasn't possible to play the game in any resolution higher than 1024x768. And this wasn't an accident, an oversight or due to a lack of time to implement - this was a deliberate decision by the developers. Or so they said - they claimed that performance would be too bad on higher resolutions or somesuch. Utter tripe and an insult to those who like to upgrade their PC to get more out of their games. As well, of course, as being an insult to anyone with more than a 15 inch monitor xD

I recall I had to go down the path of applying some obscure bodge-tweak to fix it on my PC at the time. Performance was fine once I did, of course.

Perhaps some months later the devs patched it. I don't recall, to be honest I had lost interest in the game by then. By all accounts there was plenty that was promised but never added/fixed. And outright, consciously *relying* on a mod community to transform your game from "mediocre" to "good" is gobsmacking.
 
It seems UBI authentication servers have buckled under. Lots of reports on the UBI Forums that nobody can connect, so nobody can play.

Well done UBI. Muppets.

Nate
 
And yet they still won't give up and remove the DRM, I'm sure. They will just say "we are actively working on adding more server capacity." Blah blah de blah blah.
 
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