Forget playing games, you should be in a good anger management course
if you're going to get this angry and insulting.

Randy


DodgeBullet40 wrote:

> That's a pretty weak excuse if they really care about their
> customers. The development group has to know the customers took one
> in the moon when they bought this unfinished turd. Taking a few
> minutes a week to let the people who bought into the EA hype machine
> know that they haven't been forgotten is the least they could do. It
> would take them all of two minutes to write a couple of sentences
> about what they've been working on but they choose not to do
> it...that's a good way to build a community.
>
>
>
> "Randy Magruder" > wrote in message
> ...
> > DodgeBullet40 wrote:
> >
> >> A blog would be nice...for the people who already bought the game
> and >> those who would like to. With EA's track record with patches
> I think >> it would have a positive effect. I'd buy NSR right now if
> I knew EA >> was committed to getting it right...
> >
> > I think guys like James Hawkins would write a blog if he wasn't
> > trying to put out 15 fires at once all the time. Look, I've been
> > doing testing awhile now, and the team at Tiburon is working as if
> > they still hadn't shipped the product yet. I'm seeing definite
> > improvement. Not all issues are going to be addressed in the first
> > update. They are trying to prioritize issues, and the TOP issues
> > in the game right now concern the handling of penalties, flags and
> > cautions, because these are really hurting the game when it comes
> > to league adoption. Because of this, there has been a lot of
> > torture testing and long hours scrutinizing replays to get a handle
> > on how to reproduce and fix these complex on-track situations that
> > can occur.
> >
> > I'm not one to tell you how to spend your money. The only thing I
> > will tell you is that I've been up working with them way late at
> > night trying to pin down elusive problems and been there the next
> > day when they are eager for testing to see if they've gotten it
> > fixed properly. You want to know if EA is committed to getting it
> > right? I hate to use the term "EA" because I think of the
> > corporate suits in Redwood City when someone says EA, and not
> > knowing THOSE guys, I NEVER want to guess what they are and are not
> > committed to. I WILL say the NSR team at Tiburon is committed to
> > getting it right, and as I mentioned earlier, my guess is there are
> > some unhappy Tiburon spouses right now...that's just how hard they
> > are working to get these things ironed out.
> >
> > Please realize that the whole naming of the thing "NASCAR SimRacing"
> > was NOT an element of marketing hype. That's what they were going
> > for, and that's what they are committed to, and this is the first
> > year I really, really see that level of commitment to realism.
> > Doesn't mean they won't make mistakes, and it doesn't mean we won't
> > have to wait for some bug fixes....but I'm saying that the
> > commitment is as much or more there than I've ever seen in a game
> > company before.
> >
> > Randy