"So badly"? "Laughable"? "Couldn´t make a worse job"?
Maybe you should write a application.
Your knowledge will be appreciated.
But please send it not to "Simbin". "Sector 3" is the new name.
Send them an application? I think step one would be asking for and reading through their applications.
A bit over the top.
I don't think it is that hard to figure out, takes what 5 minutes?
Not really. Assetto corsa or project cars takes a couple of minutes, I can see on one page what features, cars, tracks and so on the games have. How much that costs in local currency. That is not the case with this game. Prices are quoted in "Simbin Gungobeans" or something and there are "packs" called the same thing as "experiences" and other ones where there is a pack and no experience and others where the year changes.
Which cars are included and which tracks is on the pack, and then you have to cross reference to see that the same tracks are in other packs and experiences and then you can buy the cars and tracks individually too.
When you start adding things to the cart prices start appearing and various popups tell you that duplicates have been removed. You're left with a number. It could be hundreds of pounds or a few quid.
And then just when you think it couldn't get more ridiculous you notice that on steam they have some DLC too. Is that the same price? Of course at the moment it's gone from steam (thanks Gabe) but presumably these people want it back.
Perhaps there's one smart, cost effective way to buy everything (or most things) or a single pack or an experience, but it's taken longer than 5 minutes just describing what a pile of crap it is, and I'm thinking these guys must be muppets. They surely want to fail?
Indeed, to me it seems the only sane thing to do is play the free content until a steam sale makes the stuff a couple of quid and spend £40 on either AC or PCars.
Even if there is one smart, cost-effective way of buying stuff that we can find - why do they bother having a bunch of dumb non-cost effective ways to buy the same stuff? The only reason can be is because they want to take advantage of and rip some of their customers off. Yes?
And then presumably in the future they will add some more content that is actually the same content (i.e the same tracks, maybe different cars) and you're thinking - should I just wait? Should I just wait until they've added it all, because all I can see anyone who bought early in this title was ripped off. They paid over the odds.
But what you're basically saying is, all I have to do is waste a bunch of time - and I think 5 minutes is understating it - adding and removing stuff from the cart so that sector 3/raceroom ag or whatever they are called don't rip me off. That's the new gimmick of 'free to race' ?
And that's all ignoring the elephant in the room - the fact that clearly some of their customers are not that confident the game will still be playable in the future. The irony of that is, of course, if people don't buy stuff because of this fear it'll probably be self fulfilling.
I don't get any price differences for products, unless there is a sale.
What if you don't have an experience and you go to a leaderboard for that experience and click 'challenge' isn't the price for the experience quoted there significantly less than the price in the store? It says 1000vrp / £7.xx for me. Bug? Feature?
Not really anything new or too complex.
It's not something I'm going to bother wading through simply to give them money. It's up to them how much they want customers, I suppose, but doing a crossword puzzle or solving a python programming puzzle is fun. Trying to figure out how to buy some content from Simbin is not. If they have any sense they'll simplify it.