I wonder, deep down, if Marcel regrets selling to MSG. Sure the injected cash & licences that RF2 has acquired have been good for the Sim on one hand, but at what cost? At least 4 high profile staff (including Marcel himself) have left in the past year, there's confusion & conjecture over the BTCC stand-alone games release, the (pathetic IMO) IndyCar "exclusive" license and another delay to that release, the poor reception surrounding the NASCAR game, whether or not the Le Mans game will see the light of day, constant questions surrounding MSGs finances - all that and what of RF2?
Whilst for the users it's been great to see an abundance of DLC in recent times, the UI *finally* looks and works very well, there's also been apparent attention towards improving the AI and fixing the decade old bugs & issues on that side as well as other core development under the hood. In essence RF2 has never been so good, the past 18months or so have been great. But with the team apparently split to work on the Le Mans game and BTCC content all but done - where does RF2 go now? Do we get the Le Mans game licenses? Will we get the Indycars & tracks to go with them? or are they all saved for those respective titles? Where for the love of god is the Offline Championship mode? something so simple and yet 10+ years on from release this title still does not have it - I find that unacceptable personally, it was bad enough the UI took several years to develop, it was bad enough AI bugs & issues went practically ignored up until recently, why is there no urgency to deliver the -bog standard default should've been in the game since the very beginning - items & features?
As above the last 18months have been very good for RF2, but there's still some way to go to play catch up to other Sims let alone themselves. I just hope MSG don't screw us all over in the end, as fans, users & customers of this product - we'll be the ones who are gonna be left wanting if they do end up going bust (not to forget the staff of course).
