How about Steam, the most popular digital download platform, not the only one mind, the most popular, if you judge a PC games availability in the shops as a measure of its success then pc gaming itself is 'doomed' lol. As for the speculation on why this game will not get any support beyond next week or the week after next, I personally will reserve my thoughts on that matter until it actually happens. As for the state of the game on release, yes I was quite upset about that too, but that was six months ago now, I reserve arguments about things that happened six months ago that are no longer happening for my wife.
As for the state of the sim now, much better than it was on release, huge amounts of fun online, of course there are things that need improving but nothing so big that would make it impossible for me to play in the mean time. I'm very much looking forward to the promised improvements in fm dm and the new graphics engine, and I have no other reason than the speculation of some, that this won't happen.

AA is just eye candy? Thats a new lame excuse for for broken unfinished software. Skins are just eye candy, but if this game had no skins it would be a disaster too.

Dude AA is just basic now like screen res above 600x 800. The sim shimmers like crazy without it....and that does effect the sim experience.

This excuse reminds me of "calibrate your monitors, there is nothing wrong with the colours." LOL

Chivas said:



Constantly polishing the crystal ball gets tiresome too.

This is a chicken and egg argument, whichever side you're on. The game has been slated for well-documented reasons, and certain aspects priased equally for well-documented reasons. It's all been done to death. Yawn.

It gets trashed because it's bad, it's bad because it gets trashed so people dont buy....? Round and round....

It is an insult to people's intelligence to suggest that animosity is only there to repel furure or potential buyers. Peopel are angry because they feel let down. Soem also feel mis-led or lied-to. That let-down came from lots of things - missing features on release, apparently poor advertising and pre-release information, woeful project management, glib dev updates since release, varying quality of patches (one step forward, two steps back etc)...interspersed with genuine improvements.

But let's face it. It was awful on release and nowhere near the game promised. It still isn't. That puts added emphasis onthe tone and quality of the updates.

And this was one very big egg laid by one very small chicken

Ben

But why so agressive Icarus, it's just a game and a bunch of gamers sharing ideas

Not trying to be agressive. Sorry if you thought that. But as Falstaff states it is tiring to witness the constant crystal ball polishing when the game is clearly frought with problems. My point is made and I'm out.

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