I don’t even know where to start with this one.
A thread appeared on RaceDepartment Thursday evening discussing how anyone venturing onto the official Project CARS forums were being banned for simply pointing out the game’s plethora of bugs and glitches that have severely hindered the game’s release. User MaXKiLLz911 writes:
This kind of behavior is something we’ve covered in detail on PretendRaceCars.net, as we’ve had access to the WMD Member forums since early 2012 and have been able to display some of the ridiculous techniques used by Slightly Mad Studios to silence negativity. After several users agree with MaXKiLLz911 that the game is of poor quality and there are many glaring issues that need to be fixed, issues that outlets such as PC Gamer and Xbox Front have mentioned in their professional reviews of the game, Ian Bell, head of Slightly Mad Studios, jumps into the fray himself:
Ian claims issues such as these are “customer preferences”, and the only issue regarding online play is with “wreckers” – poor, inexperienced drivers who crash into others frequently. Apparently, stuff like what’s in the video below isn’t a problem, and eventually we will be told it’s all in our collective heads, because we have a “strange, crazy vendetta against Project CARS“:
Bell attempts to convince RaceDepartment users to sign up on the official Project CARS Forum and report bugs there, away from a public forum like RaceDepartment where people on the fence about Project CARS can openly read about game-breaking bugs that may convince a potential customer not to buy the game. When site owner Bram attempts to get Ian Bell to answer questions about the state of Project CARS on RaceDepartment, he refuses, and instead attempts to point out that RaceDepartment was given free copies of the game, implying that an effort should be made by RaceDepartment to silence criticism of Project CARS – as is done on VirtualR (seriously, try linking to us in the comments section):
The thread unravels into a history lesson of sorts, but I can safely say that the following is accurate:
This incident occurred in 2012 and the recollection by Mid-pack Jack is near spot-on; Bell threatened a libel suit against RaceDepartment for allowing users to say bad things about his video game. It obviously didn’t get anywhere, but this just goes to show the absurd lengths Slightly Mad Studios will go to defend their product; they are the stereotypical overprotective dad of a notoriously promiscuous daughter – except their daughter is a buggy, watered down version of Race 07 with pretty graphics that only functions properly on nVidia hardware.
User Rob Every also elaborates on the state of driving game sites a bit; it’s common knowledge that NoGripRacing.com and VirtualR.net were taken under WMD’s wings:
It’s definitely upsetting that this is what these fantastic sites have descended into – paid advertising:
Even worse, is that the precedent this sets – that releasing broken products is totally okay – paints a grim future for video games as a whole. This is what we come home to at the end of each day to help us relax and have some goddamned fun, and instead, we get:
First, maxkillz was banned because he was annoying af.
Second, Ian was talking about online specific issue. Collisions issues isn’t specific to online only. They’ve aknowledge a lot of issues and they said they are going to fix them.
Third, he wanted them to post issues on the official forum so the devs can see them and fix them. Not to stop them from showing them to future buyer.
Forth, as far as I understood Ian wanted to sued Racedepartement because moderators were doing fuck all. It was just a complete thread of insults against him and his company. He also was angry about the title, I’m not sure why.
Finally, some of Ian’s answer are indeed strange and provocative. Wish he would think a bit more before writing his posts, as he often comes in a bad way. I don’t think he is as bad as you makes it looks. There is quite a lot of people that don’t like him for many reasons, and that’s ok, but trying to hurt someone’s reputation like you’re doing right now is uncalled for imo and someday all of that shit will come back in your face. It amaze me how far you go in your conspiracy theories to make a company and some people look bad (I’m not talking only about SMS by the way). It also amaze me how much poeple will believe everything you say, but that’s internet I guess. Always looking for something to moan about and always looking to attack somebody.
The ways you are acting against sms makes it loos like you have a personal thing against them. Are you willing to try to hurt someone and attack a company because they didn’t kept all their promises and that you’re not happy how they react publicly? Also you seems to pick up on every litlle bad things like you don’t see the good anywhere.
To Pretend Race Cars: Don’t forget that we are all humans, some people seems to forget that on the internet. You like to attack everybody here, but I doubt you would do the same thing in “real life”. It’s all fun and games until the person being attacked is you, I guess.
To sms haters: I guess you’re gonna share this article everywhere? Yeah, because it’s fun to hate, isn’t it?
To people coming on this website: Don’t believe everything you read. I admit that there is some good reads, but don’t forget what they want is clicks and attacks/rant like this gives a lot of clicks, and they know that. They will do anything to have a lot of them here. Picking a negative thread, removing the positive posts, taking the negative posts, putting them out of context, putting a new (worst) context, seems to be their recipe and it seems to work click wise.
To everyone: it took me one f’ hour to write that. I’m tired and I need to go to sleep, but oh my god this blog is depressing, negativity everywhere and I felt like I needed to comment. Actually, I’m on the fence if I should really post this because I don’t think this blog deserve any of my times, but after one hour, I just can’t delete it. And why the hell am I writing that? I really need to sleep.
tl;dr: this blog is terrible and I need to sleep.
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Another Project Cars-troll calling this blog terrible and not worth spending time while spending one hour to write a book- long hate-post against it. And then not even having the balls to use the WMD-profile name but just hiding behind Anonymous. Idiot. You act as if this blog would just create conspiracies while it is also one of the few that shows enough material to support words instead of just writing empty words. People should know the true quality of the game and the lead behind the studio who is all but not professional in dealing with customers. This studio has build up a false fassade of empty promisses to suck money from people’s pockets.
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Oh, I see that this blog already have some fans. That is great for James and Chris, congratulations to them!
I know that some of the replies are unprofessional, so we have to hate him for that, right? While you’re looking for your pitchfork, could you bring one for me? I forgot mine at home…
They want to make money, but that’s what every company needs and wants, right? The people that bought the game with the hype or marketing are partially to blame here. I’m never buying a product that expensive without knowing about it. It’s funny when I see people complaining how they didn’t say that the game had many bugs or that it was unfinished. What the hell did they expect? Do they even know what marketing is? Those are the people that buy things like the slap chop, and then complains that it doesn’t work as advertize. Marketing is here to sell you the game. If you’re dumb enough to believe everything, that’s your problem.
SMS are here to suck money, but they need it to survive and to make other games that we can enjoy (or not, depending on the person).
I often see people say that WMD members are defending the game because they have money invested in it. I believe that is untrue (for me atleast). The thing is that I don’t see SMS as a company, but as hundreds of people that worked their ass off to make the best game they could with the money and time restriction they had. Attacking SMS is attacking these people that are usually in the dark.
I defend SMS because I see the human side of it.
Have you ever been on Assetto’s forum? It’s the same thing. People are defending the game as hell. Why? Maybe because they actually are on the forum with the devs and see the company as people and that’s how it should be (However thay attack other games and I am against that).
That’s why you’re going to see me denfending a game, but I will never ever attack another game. I still see a lot of company as a company, but I’m not judging them as fast as before.
Ps: if you could refrain yourself from calling me an idiot, it would be great. ;)
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One hour for that? You`re kidding right…
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Nope. I was on my phone.
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If you think it is acceptable to sue a website for allowing users to post what they want you should probably kill yourself.
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Your comment seems a bit excessive, no? Gotta love the internet. And where did I say I agreed with him? I just corrected James with the info I had.
If you’re gonna react like that to a sinple comment, you might want to go see a psychologist as I believe this isn’t a normal human behaviour.
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But it’s totally cool when the same 5 people post the same complete and utter BS about how PCars is a superior sim to AC and rFactor2, and or twist it to some how make rF2 look superior to AC (because AC is the main competitor to PCars) so that it puts PCars in a positive light? Go read VirtualPCars. That is the entire comment section in a nutshell.
Btw Ian did plenty for his reputation on his own considering RD is a public forum.
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I care only about attack based on misinformations against a company or against people. I couldn’t care less what you or anyone think about the game, as soon as you don’t attack anyone.
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What misinformation?
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You’re kidding me right?
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^SMS shills in a nutshell. Making claims and accusations with nothing to back them up.
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Literally the first comment here:
“First, maxkillz was banned because he was annoying af.
Second, Ian was talking about online specific issue. Collisions issues isn’t specific to online only. They’ve aknowledge a lot of issues and they said they are going to fix them.
Third, he wanted them to post issues on the official forum so the devs can see them and fix them. Not to stop them from showing them to future buyer.
Forth, as far as I understood Ian wanted to sued Racedepartement because moderators were doing fuck all. It was just a complete thread of insults against him and his company. He also was angry about the title, I’m not sure why.”
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Pcars is simcade. ..eom
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You appear to be upset that there is sufficient evidence showing what a PoS this game is.
nao fek of fggt
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How do I downvote a comment here? Anybody who defends Ian Bell is an enemy of mine.
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Even here there are SMS fanboys to annoy and (try to) bully. Please crawl back to your cave. You sound like Gollum with your precious Ian Bell or, worse, like Chris Wright in every f… blog that say anything bad about PCars. Oh and it’s hilarious you call the blog too long to read when you post is basically a bible of so long.
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Funny comment. I feel that you have some hate against me. What part made you angry? Is it the fact that I don’t think Ian is as bad as it look? Yeah, that is totally infuriating, only a blind fanboy could say that? Am I right?
The tl;dr was for my post, not the blog.
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Fight! Project CARS is the devil! ….. You are hilarious guys. Really laughable. Please continue bullshitting pCARS. You always make my day.
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The cheap bastard, ten copys of his average and broken game for marketing and censoring,true shyster cheese nob at work here, I wonder if thats how cheap VR.net sold out for.
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VRnet actually paid thousands of dollars to sms to become a cars defense force hub….
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I read this blog time to time, sometime to have a good laugh, sometime because it contained informative articles… (I like PCARS so far, but I agree that something may be better… but that’s not the point) honestly now we’re reaching the bottom.
I start to think that this blog has been created by SMS, because if initially it was doing a good job, now it’s doing them a favor, since the recent posts are all about PCARS, and they looks like written by a kid jealous of his friend with a better toy, giving to the visitor the opposite impression: the admin of this blog is mad for whatever reason = he’s not credible anymore = the game may be good after all.
When doing criticism (or whatever it is) we need to use solid facts, or it’s like howling at the moon.
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But everything posted here was solid fact. Are you saying Ian Bell doesn’t ban anyone who posts anything even slightly negative and tries to sue websites who don’t ban people for voicing their opinions? You should take a step back and a long hard look at the man and product you are defending.
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Boy this one got some comments, haha.
Everyone seems to be trying AC since it went 50% off, I probably won’t touch PCARS until the same happens with it, and bugs/issues actually get sorted.
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This was also posted to GTP: https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/project-cars-forum-moderators-banning-customers.329126
I told the guy to tell you (I am tankuroded there; apologies for my stupid username), and the moderators there also locked the thread.
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Why do literally /none/ of the comments attempting to defend Mr Bell and SMS actually outright say that PCars is a good game, and list the reasons why? Every single pro-SMS has the same arch yet witless tone, and display a readiness to descend into name calling and questioning of other posters sanity with or without any provocation. Personal attacks on Mr Bell are perfectly justified given his attitude towards the people who directly or indirectly let him put bread on the table every day. Attacking someone or banning them from your forum simply because they feel your (pretty shit, in all honesty) game is less than perfect is behaviour that deserves insulting, and is NOT the behaviour of a professional developer who is under pressure, but rather that of a bully used to getting his own way.
A question to all those who feel that James etc. simply have a personal issue with PCars and are writing these articles out of a perverse desire to see SMS fail: Do you really, /honestly/ believe that these people who have spent fair amounts of money and seemingly huge amounts of their time on playing and writing about driving sims actually WANT PCars to be shit, given their dedication to the genre?
Can you see how that might seem like it’d take a huge effort and a big helping of cognitive dissonance?
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Because the fact that the game is good or not has nothing to do with this subject.
Funny how you talk about name calling. I’ve defend sms, and I’ve been called an idiot, a fanboy and a troll, someone told me to kill myself and the the other one told me to go back to my cave. Yep, what a bunch of nice gentlemen.
I did not defend Ian’s attitude. I just said that the attacks are uncalled for. He did plenty of good and did plenty of bad, but just picking up on the bad is uncalled for. Picking on the good, I could make him look like the best guy in the world, picking on the bad, I could make him look like the worst.
There is plenty of people that likes the game. Strange, isn’t it? It’s like if people could have their own opinion or shit like that. Ridiculous. Who they think they are? Lol.
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>Because the fact that the game is good or not has nothing to do with this subject.
A) You say this on a blog where literally 50% of the content is reviews, so that is patently false. The game is objectively bad, regardless of whether you “enjoyed it” or not. Massive technical flaws in a game that has been in development for about half a fucking decade are inexcusable. It doesn’t matter a jot if you like the handling if the car won’t stick to the road like it should due to shitty code.
B) This particular article is largely about SMS’ and Mr Bell’s inability to accept that critique is a thing and that dissent is also a thing. I literally don’t know how you could have missed this, unless you consciously decided before ever reading a single PRC article that the whole blog was put up just to shit on PCars, which would show a lack of impartiality on your part.
Do you not see the irony in attempting to defend people who BAN people with differing opinions and essentially attempt to hound them into towing the line, by pulling the old “Yeah well some people like it and u just can’t handle different opinions dude LOL” card?
Regarding Mr Bell – his attitude aside, his ACTIONS speak volumes about who he is, and how he views people who don’t toe his line. Did you miss the repeated attempts at blackmailing reviewers who said less than stellar things about PCars? If anything, it is Mr Bell you should be going to with your hackneyed old bullshit about being able to deal with disagreement.
>Funny how you talk about name calling. I’ve defend sms, and I’ve been called an idiot, a fanboy and a troll, someone told me to kill myself and the the other one told me to go back to my cave. Yep, what a bunch of nice gentlemen.
An absolute non sequitur. At no point have I resorted to calling you names. Do not attempt to conflate disagreement with bullying.
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A) I was talking about this specific article, I don’t care what other articles they’ve made before. The game is buggy, but it isn’t bad imo. The cars stick to the road, wth are you talking about?
B) Stop with this. They are able to take critics, but it has to be constructive.
Yes I did “miss the repeated attempts at blackmailing reviewers who said less than stellar things about PCars”. Where have you seen that?
“An absolute non sequitur. At no point have I resorted to calling you names. Do not attempt to conflate disagreement with bullying.”
I know that, I wasn’t talking about you.
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I still believe that this blog in its smallness is giving more customers to SMS if anything… we reached that point where those people who ignored PCARS, turned to say: “hmm.. OK, let’s see what’s this about..” and have purchased the game now, just to check if it’s really good or bad.
That is probably what Mr. Bell planned from the start.. if you noticed the strategically placed info on the public forums (latest it’s about the Wii U), they are all aimed to create some “buzz”, following the rule: more you talk about it, better it is.
Basically this blog is “helping” SMS while the plan was certainly different.
So while people believes to fight against them, they are actually “helping the enemy”.
You can say anything, but Ian Bell knows his chickens… and he certainly know how to revive the talking as soon it start to fades out.
If you type Project Cars on google there’s so many articles every day, that it doesn’t count anymore if they are good or bad, they are all drive the sales up… and without hypocrisy i can only say: kudos to sms and Ian bell (under the commercial aspect if anything).
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Yes, because everyone who wants to check out badly broken this game actually is will go out and purchase it, instead of downloading it just as quickly for no cost.
Your entire premise is flawed.
The real difference? James actually bothers to provide some amount of evidence. All you’ve done is provide pro-SMS (in other words, shill) opinions and some stuff about feelings.
Yes, I’m sure Ian Bell loves negative press! You can see how well reasoned his responses are and they clearly thought the downgraded score for that xbox website was an awesome turn of events.
I mean really, just what the fuck are you talking about?
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There’s no bad press, every press is good press, no matter what’s about, this is the idea behind it.
The press that could drive the sales significantly gave to PCARS some high scores the first days (and they are continuing to do so with new articles), the Metacritic still at 83 (the average of all 3 platforms).
What happen when you talk “so much” about some product then? The reader will be attracted by the topic, then he will get the information from other sources to form their own opinion, and the point is that this other “reliable” sources (not small blogs like this, but big magazines) are painting PCARS as an amazing game, a must have… so the “buzz” we are creating with this blog, with the forums, with everything else, is contributing to spread the game around, not linked to any biased opinion (is it good.. or bad… it doesn’t matter).
This is why PCARS still in the Steam top sales atm, if you look at it it’s the 5th game sold at “full price” atm if we exclude the early access games and the games on budget… that is pretty good for this type of game, after weeks, in example you can’t even find Assetto Corsa anywhere if you scroll those pages.
We’re helping those sales… it’s like replying to a troll on a forum, we’re actually doing exactly what they want.
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@Anonymous
Every press is good press is basically just a cliché. A shitstorm in the press is everything but not good press. When people and press release negative articles, believe it or not, it won´t help the game to sell better or rather help the game to sell games in the future.
If anything, people will watch on Youtube or download cracked versions to see what this fuss is about. But more people paying money just to see what the discussion is about? That´s marketing-bullshit invented by some manager or something.
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There’s only few magazines that could drive the sales (they are those ones who drive the metacritic), everything else (including this blog) is just “noise”, and this noise help to spread the game name around (the content is not relevant). This is why i said that press is always good press.. i should have said that talking about it, no matter if good or bad, is always good (for the sales) in the end.
The only weapon a small blog has against a product, is to ignore it… but it’s not that easy, we have an example here: the admin decided to ignore PCARS at a certain point… but then, SMS loaded the gun again, and here we are spreading the name Project Cars all over the net.
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Your theory is more than vague. When you say that only big magazines drive the sales, why should it, of all, be the small blogs which leads to people talking about the games and then buying them? That makes really no sense.
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I hope you are drunk or something because this is comedy gold.
If this was Ian’s plan was then why has he started stuff up with Bram at RD? If he is ok with criticism because it will drive sales then clearly all of his angst isnt needed right?
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The guy might be right in some way. I doubt that Ian or SMS likes any of the bad press, but, when you think about it, that it helps sells the game makes some sense.
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Again why so mad at RD for not liking the game then, if negative press is good press?
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Why can’t I reply to your other comment?
Like I said, he probably doesn’t like bad press, it’s probably not something that he wants, but it doesn’t stop the fact that it could help sells the game.
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Things were going quiet… they jumped on it, and the music started again. There’s no “madness” involved, or it’s all planned: mad enough to have people talking for another month, then the dices will be rolled again.
The success of PCARS (if we completely ignore the technical aspect behind it) is about the power of the mouth… we talk about it so much, that is virtually impossible to ignore it, and translated into sales it means much.
(we don’t have only PC users who could download the pirate version… we have tons of console users, who are actually buying the game)
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Ah yes, the old “there’s no such thing as bad press herp derp” bullshit. If that’s the case, then SMS should just publicly state that Hitler did nothing wrong and the holocaust never happened. People would be talking about PCARS and there’s no such thing as bad press, right?
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NOBODY seems to think that a public admission of a bribe of a sim news site is big deal? the f**king censoring over several sites? the fact VR.net and nogrip are bought and paid for adverts now for a f**king codemasters style simcade? the fact ian bell the cunt tried to sue RD for saying shit bout “his” game? but none of this seems to bother the average pleb jumping to defend this shit, you cunts are unreal, why did bell leave\lose EA? sounds like he was too cunty even for them.
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You might want to check your fact mate.
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No i dont, its inexcusable, bell end has a public admission of trying to bribe a sim news site to STFU, read the first reply here same thing basically a covert threat to the owner of blog WTF, fuck you little cunts, little fucking SMS\WMD gestapo, then when that fails can always sue a public blog LOL WTF, VR.net is well known the owner is now employed by SMS (not marketing some other undisclosed job apparently), and Nogrip is well and truely known to be in their pocket (possibly for as little as handful of game copys),
thank god it turned out to be enougher average codemaster style over hyped console game for plebs, otherwise might of had to pay the cheese knobs actual money despite their SHOCKING behavior.
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Project cars is the game we all deserve, but not the one we need right now. So we’ll play it. Because we can take it. Because we are not heroes . We are silent guardians, watchful protectors. dark knights.
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I deserve a working game for my money and a game which does things better than other games. If you deserve this game, than you´ve done some crazy shit in the past.
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Just to clarify, no one hates the game on RD, look at the club races, Bram hosting most of them. Do you really think we hate the game and host so many races at the same time? We actually love the game but want the bugs fixed so we can actually enjoy it and not have half of the races ruined by random nonsense. I’d you read carefully on RD, you would have found this out all by yourself.
Don’t be so self centered and think the whole world is against pCars or WMD. Read properly before you answer.
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No, whole world definitely does not hate pCARS or WMD.
In reality most of the people like pCars (number of current concurrent players on steam alone let be the proof – still 2 times more than AC or any other racing game/sim… and it really reached over 10K at it’s peak despite this site telling you the opposite .. just look at steamspy).
It is just this pathetic site that hates pCARS :).
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You are blinded by misplaced anger, if you would take the time to actually read on this “website full of haters” your opinion will change :-). But I guess that is too much to ask.
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Are your datas from release-day? Actually, the game is falling in the statistics. 149,285 owners on Steam. That is….well…not even average. And at the moment the peak of players is at about 4000. If that is better than any other racing game on Steam then Steam has some quite shit racing games.
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What anger are you talking about?
All I can read on this site (about pCARS that is) are devs and/or users posts taken out of context (believe me, I know what I’m talking about … I was quoted here completely out of context), sometimes lies (there are no closed threads or banned people just because being negative … but for calling others names, simply making threads for fun, opening threads again and again fir already known issues), sometimes pure attempts of attacks at Ian Bell personally (who really behaves differently to other heads of studios … Yes, he actually cares and that is sole reason he communicates … yea, sometimes he’s rude … to the people who are rude, lying, attacking others or just plain stupid, other times he’s funny or even helpful, you know). Btw. there are also people who opened threads, that would be quoted here with big pleasure … who then came back to say, that they were wrong and they began to love the sim. Is there a reason not to post about those customers here?
There really is no agenda behind these “truth telling articles” … really. Not one sided at all.
And then again … could you tell me where you see me angry? I’m having a good laugh – and this site is so obsessed with pCARS, that I must admit – at nearly a daily basis :D
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“The people that bought the game with the hype or marketing are partially to blame here. […] If you’re dumb enough to believe everything, that’s your problem.”
It really is a bummer that you blame the consumer for the company’s inability to deliver the product as promised. And you then DEFEND the company for doing so. I mean, really? I was so surprised about your comment, that I had to wait 5 minutes until my eyebrows agreed to relocate from the back of my head. WE as consumers are supposed to be on the same side here. WE are supposed to agree that if the company doesn’t deliver, they don’t deserve our money or support!
You do the above because you see the “human side” of making games, bless your kind heart. If I were a company man, you’d be my favorite customer ;) But what about the “human side” of those who spent their hard earned money to support the company, and got served a mediocre, buggy simcade (not that it can’t be fixed, which we all hope they do asap)? Can you appreciate the human side of that?
“SMS are here to suck money, but they need it to survive and to make other games that we can enjoy”.
Yes, SMS is here to suck money, I agree. But your following argument is flawed. Let me explain: SMS needs money to make games. How do they do that? By raising investments, taking a business risk and seeing if their product delivers. (Which isn’t purely what they did, since they lay some of the business risk on the consumer by crowdfunding). THEN they survive, purely on the business basis of delivering a good product that we enjoy. By that alone, and not by “understanding the human side”, do they deserve to make money to make more games. Otherwise they have no business being here.
We really should stick together on this particular point, otherwise the companies are just walking all over us. And you really should reconsider your conspiracy arguments, man. These guys will start praising pCars as soon as they feel there is something to praise. This conspiracy thing does not exist.
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“Taken out of context” is an excuse you shouldn’t use if you’re confronted with any real problem. Most of the articles on here I source as much as I can, and at the top, there’s a link to the seven page RaceDepartment thread that anyone who’s bored can read through and come to the exact same conclusion and point of view that this article pushes.
40 comments in and nobody from the “other side” is able to explain why pCars is a good game that doesn’t deserve the ripping it gets on here. Congrats on proving me right, fanboys.
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Why is pCARS good game? Because it has good driving physics? Because the AI behaves mostly like real people (in fact much better than real people online)? Because those whose opinions you so easily dismiss simply like the game? What is there to explain? Yes, I’ve encountered some of the bugs mentioned in forums .. so what? Does it take away all of the great experiences I’m having with this game? No. Does this sim (at least for me) come closer to reality than AC, rF, SRW, GT, Forza (never driven iRacing, so cannot compare to that)? It does. You may disagree as much as you want. I don’t know about your real life driving experience, but I can compare it to my own real life driving experience and it simply is better. Compared to pCARS, AC is as far from reality as it gets. But that is only my honest opinion.
Now you start calling me fanboy, blind, Ian’s cocksucker or whatever. I won’t take away any fun I have with pCARS nor any fun I have laughing at you.
Btw. “Taken out of context” is completely valid, when something is taken out of context and it changes the resulting message.
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i wish i had the copy of pcars you have.
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Please explain what in this article has been taken out of context, when bell said…
“No, I don’t like the tone here.
Enjoy your free copies Bram but there’s no need to be so confrontational.”
Was there some kind of mystical spiritual message we all missed cause looks like a lame attempt at at shaming someone publicly for taking free copys of his game and criticizing it, you just like others here trying to defend the action show say “oh thats out of context” or “its misinformation” without any argument why, typical spin doctor BS, and the very first post on this blog amounts to a threat to the blog owner.
So get ta fuck out with ya “out context” BS unless your gonna elaborate.
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Lol you lost me at good AI… seriously are you on drugs? Do you watch professional motorsprts? AI should aim for that not open lobby antics.
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I remember when Ian Bell was still making mods for ISI’s F1 games and simbin.com was his modding website. He was a thin-skinned asshole back then, and he hasn’t changed at all in the last 13 years or so.
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do tell
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Eh, not really much of a story to tell, just the same inability to take criticism that everyone who’s read the articles on this blog is already familiar with. It’s just incredible that the guy hasn’t learned to treat his customers with respect even though they now pay for his team’s products – at least back then he could play the “we make this stuff for FREE and you DARE to complain about it?!” card.
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Why cant i search Matthias Brems’ posts?
http://forum.projectcarsgame.com/member.php?93409-Matthias-Brems
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I can’t believe SMS shipped a game without tyre wear for the AI cars.
“All the player cars tires have tire wear, but some are admittedly on the light side. However, AI tire wear wasn’t enabled upon release, but is now here in our local builds.”
http://forum.projectcarsgame.com/showthread.php?27185-GOOD-INFO-INSIDE!-tyre-wear&p=936029&viewfull=1#post936029
Financial backers of pCARS, defend this latest admission of a half baked product along with the myriad of other bugs, glitches and issues that have been reported on the pCARS forums across all 3 platforms.
The release of pCARS is the exact same bug plagued shit as NFS: Shift (which shipped with the damage not turned on in the PS3 version and the Carrera GT career race being borked), NFS: Shift Unleashed and TD: Ferrari! The Shift releases required unofficial community patches to play properly FFS.
I also see that SMS staff are being instructed not to communicate with the RaceDepartment forums yet again. How long before Ian Bell sends his legal team back in to try and silence Bram?
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What’s more shocking is they haven’t come after me yet – I’m 22 years old and I work at a carwash. Speaking from experience, they could blow me out in court based on my appearance alone, and the cost of hiring a lawyer would result in me moving into a cardboard box.
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There is still time for SMS to send their lawyers so don’t fret 8)
The entire pCARS saga is laughable; if the SMS studio head, WMD moderators and financial members spent as much time on QA (as in bug tracking, testing & bug elimination as well as overall polish) as they do hounding and threatening people who don’t conformation to their hive mind mentality that pCARS is the most advanced & perfect sim ever created, pCARS would have shipped in a near perfect state.
Tis a shame as the gameplay is a lot of fun when the game works as intended.
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Best “sim” on ps4 so far..
Nothing else to choose from tho. Buggiest game I’ve ever played it has potential tho if they can be arsed to sort it out.
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