Are you truly a Gran Turismo fan? (a rant, sorry)

[Kasz216]

Gnizmo said:

Kasz216 said:

So you are saying people shouldn't be pissed that they willingly sat on their asses to wait for development, because they were waiting for a bigger userbase?

Blizzard works around the concept of releasing a game whenever they damn please?  How so.  Becaues they just released Starcraft 2?   There was never even real mention they were working on starcraft 2 until like... a year ago.

I see you aren't familiar with Blizzard at all. Starcraft 2 was announced 3 years ago, had already been in development since 2003, and was a direct sequel to a game that released a decade ago. This actually represents a decrease between time of announcement and launch of the game. World of Warcraft also represents how slow they are with about 5 years between release and announcement, including a beta that lasted over a year. The current trend of releasing an expansion every 2 years is also glacialy slow as the MMO market typically has 1-2 per year with all kinds of incremental content patches in the middle. Compare WoW and EQ2 patch count, and expansions to get a concept of this as they were released side by side. They are notorious for making you wait. Believe me, or look into it yourself and see that I am right. Your call.

 And again, you are misrepresenting my argument. I wish I could still quote myself easily on these new fangled forums but I will settle for a paraphrase. If someone wants to say they lost interest in GT5 somewhere along the way then I get it. No one is bitching about that. This is about the people throwing up their hands because the game has been delayed once.

To say it's been delayed once is silly... when you yourself are admitting the game was delayed because of userbase issues in the first place.

As for Blizzard, generally yeah... don't know much about them, never really liked Warcraft that much... too simple.  And I don't pay monthly fees  on MMO's.  They're ripoffs.

Nobody was talking about Starcraft 2 on here till like, last year, so i figured that's when it was announced.

Either way though, people have PLENTY of reason to be pissed and give up if that's the case.

Or like Valve with the Half life... if a lot of people say "you know what valve, fuck it, where's the new halflife 2 episode or halfife 3... I don't want any DOTA, Zombie or whatever games... after a 1 day delay..."

They'd perfectly be in their right to do that.  Heck in that case you wouldn't even need an announcement because it's a continueing story.

And Valve is a legendary development company. 

 

"Hidden delays" are no less valid as "announced delays".   They're the same thing when you can tell a hidden delay has happened.  So adding a "hidden delay" onto it, and the small announced delay being the final thing that makes someone say bullshit.

That's perfectly reasonable.