Who here considers iRacing to be the pinnacle of quality?
iRacing spends years developing and fine tuning a feature before moving on to the next one (that's why NTM was so slow to roll out and why we still haven't got flat spotting yet). They're so hesitant to release something sub standard that they are still holding the Lotus back even though it apparently has been race worthy for some time (judging by the videos).
And now they are prepared to flush all that hard work down the toilet because of two poor business decisions?
First they want to get onto Steam to get at that market, but they aren't willing to put any work into it. Zero, in fact:
It would be our goal to place iRacing on Steam in a way that would allow the post-purchase experience to be no different than it is now. People would log into our website as usual, update their sim through our updater, race on our servers, use the iRacing friends functionality on the iRacing site, and participate in discussion through our forums.
Then they want to get onto more platforms (Mac/Linux), but they aren't willing to put any work into it. Zero, in fact:
Settle down folks. This is a third party project that is costing us next to nothing. There is very little we actually have to do because the developers are using our existing executables and running them with emulation software on the Mac and Linux operating systems.
How on earth does iRacing believe that this will go unnoticed? Do they honestly think that Steam users won't notice that their friend list doesn't work in iRacing? Do they honestly think that tech-savvy Linux users won't notice that their software is emulated?
Is iRacing in such a bad monetary position that they want to sacrifice their entire brand history for a couple of percent more customers, because this is very uncharacteristic for them. Why don't they spend the same amount of time perfecting Steam support and perfecting a Mac or Linux port like they do with everything else? Naturally they don't have time to do everything, but then why do a half-assed job willingly, when nothing else that they do is done in this way?
Are everyone blinded by the possibilities of getting more customers quickly that nobody sees any long term side effects by going from extreme slow development to suddenly moving very quickly, and without actually developing much to cater for these new customers?
