I'd have thought organising a race meeting for the first days MP beta testing wasn't the wisest idea in the world in the first place. Maybe that's just me though.
To be fair they have hardly hyped it up. It's the community that have gone crazy with hype as usual. People organising events, people taking days off work etc,.
I have no expectations either but unlike with other game releases the technical support to make this evening a smooth experience (as possible) for everybody has been absolutely zero.
No support what so ever for communities that are helping in providing a healthy online platform for AC customers.
I find it unbelievable that we have a race (with 125 drivers signed up) tonight and we have to find out how everything works at release hour
But that must be me expecting too much.
I have no doubt they knew what the scale of hype would be. You cant stop the sim racing community from going into hype overdrive, and then going into complete and utter meltdown when things aren't exactly as they hoped.
It's the first mass beta. Some people need a bit of perspective.
From our side we'd like to minimize the risk of things going wrong and a simple answer to a few questions would have been enough.
They have worked every update weekend since November.I would agree with that, but unless they plan to work the weekend, I still think Friday wasn't the best day to roll out an update like this. It just screams of potential for dissapointment.
They have worked every update weekend since November.
They have worked every update weekend since November.
I don't mind if tonights event fails because of technical issues with the game or peoples hardware but i do mind that online racing fails due to no communication and a total lack of technical support leaving server admins absolutely clueless.
From our side we'd like to minimize the risk of things going wrong and a simple answer to a few questions would have been enough.
Nothing more nothing lessThe way I understood this MP (on Racedepartment) today was we are supposed to test it for flaws and having a little fun doing so ...
What makes me still more hesitating is:
MP is delayed for 1 week due to the 25 april in Italy.... and now saying
"Multiplayer alpha version, still working on it and we will continue. Our focus for this release is to check the core and stress the system"
What's that for a communication: everything's nearly ready and now it's not ready after 1 week ??