Why do people keep using this excuse as though because some people don't criticize AC they can't criticize pCARS? It's such illogical thinking and only points the obvious bias you have toward the game when instead of actually bringing up arguments against peoples' opinions on it you claim they're the biased ones because they're not as critically harsh about other games.
I'll admit I am extremely biased against some of the people who are in charge of the game because of their attitudes on their official forums. Even with that I still like this game a lot but it has some serious issues and ridiculously obvious oversights in so many aspects that it's extremely frustrating and I can understand the complaints. Even more so when people claim how amazing this game is and basically that anyone who disagrees with them is biased and hypocritical.
I have absolutely nothing against proper critique of the game. If you've spent even a tiny amount of time at WMD you'll know I'm one of the pretty vocal people around there and have a lot of critique.
I think the launch of the game was quite catastrophic and let them know my opinion on the forums many weeks in advance that I thought the game was not at all ready to be released.. and I wasn't alone.
Also, I know there are a LOT of issues with the game from a purely simulator perspective and I absolutely loathe the auto-pitstop thing.
However, what I dislike is people
making up complete lies and fudging quotes and stuff to further their agenda. I also dislike how the persecution of anything SMS and Project CARS has suddenly been forgotten. Many here complain about Project CARS and WMD people being "cyber bullies" and conveniently forget the big picture.
If you walk down the street every day, punching people in the face and calling them all kinds of nasty things, you'll pretty quickly find yourself living in an environment that will turn against you. Action and reaction. The very basics of physics.. and society.
As for the developers.. they are British (well the core team at least) and have dry humor and low tolerance for BS. Every single person that has been banned from the forums over the years, at least as far as I have seen,
had it coming and thoroughly deserved it. For starters, every WMD member has received a
a very clear and detailed email stating exactly what the WMD system is and how their behavior is expected on the forums. It was supposed to work as a virtual workplace where you give constructive, detailed and properly written feedback. This was in the TERMS you had to "sign". Yet hundreds of illiterate spoiled brats got in.. and got banned when they posted something like this: "LOLWUZT??? You callll thiz sim???!??? Cars slide all overrt.. weirdz wobble.. SHIFT 3 LOL!! THis s***!!".
Boom.. instabann.
Then there were the more persistent and devious trolls or just generally negative people who took their time and slowly but surely kept posting unconstructive, non-informative and speculative posts over and over again. They were usually at first politely told to have some patience or to just leave and check back in a year to see if the game is at a playable state for them later. Some took the hint and stopped clogging up the systems but some continued. After several warnings they were then banned.
Have the developers made mistakes? Reacted too harshly? Hell yes.. of course they have. Why?
BECAUSE THEY ARE HUMAN. Again the hypocrisy is so infuriating. You have people complaining that SMS staff are douches and yet these very same people conveniently disregard their own writing. It's like they are oblivious to their own words and COMPLETELY oblivious to the fact that they just pissed all over the developers work of passion. They could have continued to work for EA, they could have continued to work for any other large corporation but chose to do it themselves so that they could create the game they always wanted to create.. and then they get called horrible things on their own forums and their efforts being belittled even when the game was just a fraction of a shell in pre-pre-pre-pre alpha and had an internal development version number of 0.00004 or something. It was ridiculous. It is also the reason why WMD will never happen again. Perls were indeed given to swine.. there will be no more perls in the form it could have been. So in essence, WMD was a failure but not at all due to the developers fault (well they do have to carry part of the blame as the system should have been a lot more rigid from the get-go but they trusted the community.. that's where it all went wrong).
Ian Bell is a real bulldog. He doesn't take stuff lightly, has extremely dry humor (which means many of his posts are very confusing for a lot of people, especially those with bad English language skills) and is straight to the point and speaking his mind. He is also extremely proud of their teams accomplishments (and rightly so) and is thus very quick to defend the team when unwarranted attacks or overtly negative posts were made. He also made it VERY clear: Their forum, their rules, their virtual workplace. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a real life open office work environment. Simple as that. Don't like it? Don't participate.
