What people want is quality and variety at an affordable level.
Ubisofts business model is to find and recycle a winning formula with minimal investment/risk.
...and so the deadlock between publisher and consumer continues.
So what you need is a developer prepared to demonstrate quality and thus generate a market prepared to pay for continued development. This model has proven to work with DCS which btw isn't without its faults, but they are tolerated due to the immense quality in other areas.
I personally think SH5 had (still has) the potential for this had development continued for another 2yrs, which obviously required consumer backing. The key to getting that backing is communication and trust, again a succesful trait of the DCS series.
que elanaiba's kickstarter campaign....
