Friday 2011-01-14 Dev. update and Discussion

Originally Posted by Wutz

Well Silent Hunter IV was at least playable what can not be said of Silent Hunter V

I totally forgot about that Pacific release! I meant to say Silent Hunter V (5). That was a pretty unforgivable thing Ubisoft did there. Taking a solid concept, shoehorning in a bunch of crap to make it appeal more to RPG/MMORPG players, then giving them 1/2 the time required to finish it.

Also Ubisoft has a bad habit of laying off dev teams as soon as a game is released (if they have that control over them). There have been a few instances where a dev team was fired the day after release and they had issues patching games because the devs had either moved on or refused to work with Ubisoft again.

Sadly this is starting to become a common practice amongst other companies as well.