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S.Peelman said:

Yes these kind of practices are inexcusable. Actually any responsible company, this is not solely about Sony and this game, deserves to die over blunders like this. Bringing such broken products would never fly in any other industry. Consumers are basically robbed and treated with disrespect. But, in the industry of gaming where everything goes nowadays, this will once again be excused and shoved under the carpet by companies. Gullable gamers fooled by pretty pictures will just buy whatever they dangle in front of them anyway and the process continues.

lol

Yet things fly like

Cars released with defects that were known that end up killing people.

Chemicals used that are known to casue masssive health issues to all life on earth.

Food is made in labs and that is known to slowly but surely kill people.

Yet a freaking game, in a quite meaningless industry to the world if we are being honest.  A game makes you so hilariously mad and hurt.

Wow.



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RacerXGT said:
S.Peelman said:

Yes these kind of practices are inexcusable. Actually any responsible company, this is not solely about Sony and this game, deserves to die over blunders like this. Bringing such broken products would never fly in any other industry. Consumers are basically robbed and treated with disrespect. But, in the industry of gaming where everything goes nowadays, this will once again be excused and shoved under the carpet by companies. Gullable gamers fooled by pretty pictures will just buy whatever they dangle in front of them anyway and the process continues.

lol

Yet things fly like

Cars released with defects that were known that end up killing people.

Chemicals used that are known to casue masssive health issues to all life on earth.

Food is made in labs and that is known to slowly but surely kill people.

Yet a freaking game, in a quite meaningless industry to the world if we are being honest.  A game makes you so hilariously mad and hurt.

Wow.

I am not not mad, because I'm not stupid enough to blow my money on stuff that won't work. I don't get how many gamers just take this and be cool with it.



S.Peelman said:
RacerXGT said:
S.Peelman said:

Yes these kind of practices are inexcusable. Actually any responsible company, this is not solely about Sony and this game, deserves to die over blunders like this. Bringing such broken products would never fly in any other industry. Consumers are basically robbed and treated with disrespect. But, in the industry of gaming where everything goes nowadays, this will once again be excused and shoved under the carpet by companies. Gullable gamers fooled by pretty pictures will just buy whatever they dangle in front of them anyway and the process continues.

lol

Yet things fly like

Cars released with defects that were known that end up killing people.

Chemicals used that are known to casue masssive health issues to all life on earth.

Food is made in labs and that is known to slowly but surely kill people.

Yet a freaking game, in a quite meaningless industry to the world if we are being honest.  A game makes you so hilariously mad and hurt.

Wow.

I am not not mad, because I'm not stupid enough to blow my money on stuff that won't work. I don't get how many gamers just take this and be cool with it.


There you go, people should hold  responsibility for what they spend their money on.

If you can take advantage of a fool for a dollar, do so.  The world economy mostly revolves on that ideal. 



RacerXGT said:
S.Peelman said:

Yes these kind of practices are inexcusable. Actually any responsible company, this is not solely about Sony and this game, deserves to die over blunders like this. Bringing such broken products would never fly in any other industry. Consumers are basically robbed and treated with disrespect. But, in the industry of gaming where everything goes nowadays, this will once again be excused and shoved under the carpet by companies. Gullable gamers fooled by pretty pictures will just buy whatever they dangle in front of them anyway and the process continues.

lol

Yet things fly like

Cars released with defects that were known that end up killing people.

Chemicals used that are known to casue masssive health issues to all life on earth.

Food is made in labs and that is known to slowly but surely kill people.

Yet a freaking game, in a quite meaningless industry to the world if we are being honest.  A game makes you so hilariously mad and hurt.

Wow.

Absurd analogy.

People are mad about the incompetence and repeated mishandling of their investment.

I would get very mad if my hard earned money was taken and in exchange a service was not completely delivered.



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S.Peelman said:

I am not not mad, because I'm not stupid enough to blow my money on stuff that won't work. I don't get how many gamers just take this and be cool with it.

Many of the people who are ok with it, didn't buy it for it's social aspects or MP aspects, they bought it for the SP, the point to point tracks etc...  That is certainly not all of the people who bought it, and nobody's white washing that this should've been fixed pre-launch, I've said it myself numerous times.  However, the game is far from unplayable (like, let's say, Skyrim PS3 was for most people, and yet still got 10/10, and few (if any) score adjustments were made).

Remember, not many people even cared about the PS4/XB1's social features pre-launch, there are still a chunk of gamer's out there who simply like SP games (I'm one of them).  Again though, it doesn't excuse this problem, and if anything, I sincerely hope that in the DC post-mortum, Evolution is transparent about where exactly this went wrong.  Full disclosure would be best, in my opinion.

That having been said, they've been pretty vocal about their progress, and everytime they release an update it comes with some kind of word from them.  The only thing I'm bothered with now, is the lack of comment on the PS+ version.  Granted, it makes sense to me that they'd hold off on it until they've fixed the issues (as does the idea that they could turn off the social aspects/MP aspects of the PS+ version and release it), but, that it makes sense to me, doesn't mean they shouldn't have a comment on it nearly a month after the free version was supposed to launch.



Goatseye said:
RacerXGT said:
S.Peelman said:

Yes these kind of practices are inexcusable. Actually any responsible company, this is not solely about Sony and this game, deserves to die over blunders like this. Bringing such broken products would never fly in any other industry. Consumers are basically robbed and treated with disrespect. But, in the industry of gaming where everything goes nowadays, this will once again be excused and shoved under the carpet by companies. Gullable gamers fooled by pretty pictures will just buy whatever they dangle in front of them anyway and the process continues.

lol

Yet things fly like

Cars released with defects that were known that end up killing people.

Chemicals used that are known to casue masssive health issues to all life on earth.

Food is made in labs and that is known to slowly but surely kill people.

Yet a freaking game, in a quite meaningless industry to the world if we are being honest.  A game makes you so hilariously mad and hurt.

Wow.

Absurd analogy.

People are mad about the incompetence and repeated mishandling of their investment.

I would get very mad if my hard earned money was taken and in exchange a service was not completely delivered.


Happens in every industry all the time, think how a GM owner feels rigth now.  

then you must be truley happy how your gov is spending your tax dollars.  



RacerXGT said:


Happens in every industry all the time, think how a GM owner feels rigth now.  

then you must be truley happy how your gov is spending your tax dollars.  

Yes it does happen in every industry, yet you find it amusing how gamers get ripped off and approve such actions.

What does my gov actions have to do with Driveclub? I pay taxes for public services and when I call 911, I get promptly assisted unlike Driveclub, which almost a month later still manages to *u*k up.



mornelithe said:
S.Peelman said:

I am not not mad, because I'm not stupid enough to blow my money on stuff that won't work. I don't get how many gamers just take this and be cool with it.

Many of the people who are ok with it, didn't buy it for it's social aspects or MP aspects, they bought it for the SP, the point to point tracks etc...  That is certainly not all of the people who bought it, and nobody's white washing that this should've been fixed pre-launch, I've said it myself numerous times.  However, the game is far from unplayable (like, let's say, Skyrim PS3 was for most people, and yet still got 10/10, and few (if any) score adjustments were made).

Remember, not many people even cared about the PS4/XB1's social features pre-launch, there are still a chunk of gamer's out there who simply like SP games (I'm one of them).  Again though, it doesn't excuse this problem, and if anything, I sincerely hope that in the DC post-mortum, Evolution is transparent about where exactly this went wrong.  Full disclosure would be best, in my opinion.

That having been said, they've been pretty vocal about their progress, and everytime they release an update it comes with some kind of word from them.  The only thing I'm bothered with now, is the lack of comment on the PS+ version.  Granted, it makes sense to me that they'd hold off on it until they've fixed the issues (as does the idea that they could turn off the social aspects/MP aspects of the PS+ version and release it), but, that it makes sense to me, doesn't mean they shouldn't have a comment on it nearly a month after the free version was supposed to launch.

I meant it more in general. So I'm also questioning the practices of the SimCity 2013s and the Battlefield 4s and whatever else. I'm not exactly sure what features DriveClub has in full and I'll take your word for it that there's still a point to owning it now, but apparently the current issue breaks a large chunk of the game and arguably the 'main' point of it. What I'm trying to say is that I find it unbelievable that a lot of gamers apparently have no standard anymore. Companies can just bring broken products, take money and be done with it. Is it strange to expect a working product (again not singling out this game)?

But this is sublemental to my other two posts, I agree with what you wrote  



I wonder if Evolution will survive after this.Will the studio be on the chopping block in the near future?