Any news on the DLC date ?
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Biggles, you just will have to wait some more days for it.
FerrariPro already told that the patch its at Sony for testing.
And if i'm correct (comparing to the time of the major EuroPAL patch, v2) it should be released soon.
A week more I guess. (its a guess, ok)
Just for you to know we (Euro) got the first patch (v1.01) on a Saturday.
FerrariPro already told that the patch its at Sony for testing.
And if i'm correct (comparing to the time of the major EuroPAL patch, v2) it should be released soon.
A week more I guess. (its a guess, ok)
Just for you to know we (Euro) got the first patch (v1.01) on a Saturday.
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- Hereward
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It has to be said with all the problems and delays and now the hold up of download content it's really hurt sales of this otherwise excellent game, online it's prety barren as far as players and as we move into the holiday deluge of games you can't help wondering if the game will disapear under the flood of new titles.
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I think Hereward is right. Right now, in N.A. there is practically nobody playing online & the few that I have come across are terrible drivers.
My hope was that I could persuade a group of GTPers to adopt FC as an alternative to endlessly running Suzuka & Fuji on GT5P, & set up a series of good online races. The window of opportunity for FC is there because of the long delay before GT5 appears - the more time goes by, the more that window of opportunity closes. If PD releases some new tracks for GT5P it will be all over for FC...
My hope was that I could persuade a group of GTPers to adopt FC as an alternative to endlessly running Suzuka & Fuji on GT5P, & set up a series of good online races. The window of opportunity for FC is there because of the long delay before GT5 appears - the more time goes by, the more that window of opportunity closes. If PD releases some new tracks for GT5P it will be all over for FC...
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Actually, I just saw the following message posted by the Forum Administrator on the "Official Eutechnyx Forums" (as per a thread title that I saw on GameFaqs):
"Hi,
The patch for the USA version of Ferrari Challenge is in the final stages of testing and is expected to be submitted to Sony week beginning the 13th October. The content of the patch will include:.....
Regards
Eutechnyx Team"
Apparently, the USA/NA Patch is supposed to be submitted to Sony sometime this coming week.
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- Hereward
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Well hopefully once the NA patch has been released the reigon lock will be removed to swell the online numbers and get a bit of interest going, currently FC is the only real driving sim with the ability to host private lobbys with full voice coms. Sony need to get some momentum going before what should be a key title is lost. I say Sony as weve all seen the work a speed at which the FC devs have addressed issues here in europe.
They know you've already bought the game and dumped money into their pockets so why would they be trying to rush out a patch for a game that isnt their marquee title..
I believe sony would rather have you play gt5(a sony title) than a game from a 2nd or 3rd party company..just my opinion. You think they mind people being turned off from FC and going back to playing gt5p(I think thats exactly what they want)
I believe sony would rather have you play gt5(a sony title) than a game from a 2nd or 3rd party company..just my opinion. You think they mind people being turned off from FC and going back to playing gt5p(I think thats exactly what they want)
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Unfortunately, the actual number of people playing FC:TP is too small, and almost non-existant when compared with GT5
.I see few problems as possible with DLC.
First, System 3 could have negative feedback from Ferrari about the game overall, with emphasis on final retail results.
Game suffered from many problems in the beginning - online as the greatest problem- when it was heavily advertised.
Then, GT5
already came out, with photorealistic cars and such, which almost certainly influenced some marketing people at Modena. Not to mention the fact Prologue gained probably 100X more sales that FC:TP, with Ferrari cars being - I presume - 5X more driven in the GT5 game than all other cars combined.Second, when you compare FC:TP lobbies with number of lobbies that STILL exist for F1CE, you can say that FCTP didn't make a progress there too. Which is a shame, because I find FC:TP a great game, a great challenge for every driver and one of the best racers ever. However, numbers are numbers, and it is all that matters in the industry.
I can see that retail results has to be the key in this way or another, because the sales of FC:TP are very small, while I can safely presume that whole FC:TP project was expensive as hell. You have small publisher, you have 3-years of development with mid-sized developer, licensing of cars and tracks, revenues to Sony for PS3/PS2 development and such - which all results as a one great expenditure. And never forget that System 3's owner - Mark Cale - is the guy who financed this with his own money, almost as a hobby.
And after the game finally came out - it was almost 6 month delay from initial release, with numerous delays in the mid-time - it was pretty much flawed with small bugs, which took time to fix. And after 3 patches - from which one whole territory, USA - still didn't get last one (which is a great surprise, because one would think that Activison, as USA publisher, would actually care about game it actually publishes), game still didn't manage to turn the heads of many racing fans, because of many reasons.
Also notice that there is another running-expense - online servers System 3 have to actually pay something to someone in order to run game online.
But I think that disknowledge about game's utter existence is the main problem, which leads us to marketing and such - which is another expense, that System3 just couldn't fund adequately.
And in conclusion I have to say that FC:TP is a great racing game - one of my favorites in many years now - but it obviously brakes down to subjective reasons of love/hate. Many people traded it, stopped play it and such because of the numerous flaws in the beginning. With being half year on the market - and without any serious user base - I see no bright future for the DLC.
Even if the first DLC comes out, I guess it will also be the last one. With Ferrari so tided to Polyphony Digital now - and who can blame them, when you look the situation from global-wise perspective - I see no bright future for the FC:TP. Which saddens me a lot, because I had such high hopes for this game.
It's another sad story when mainstream - no matter as good it is - took over the "indy" and alternative. It happened to movies, it happened to music, and now it happens with the games. Unfortunately, I can only see that in future it will happen even more.
In the meantime, I guess that all of us who enjoys Ferrari Challenge will enjoy it as it is - with all small flaws and such - because they're not so important with all other attributes that FC:TP has. But somehow, we are minority, and it is very well known that minority voice never had any true influence whatsoever.
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That same thing happened to Enthusia. GT4 and Enthusia were released the same year. Still to this day Enthusia is the best console 'driving' sim.
And yet:
Sony at least SCEE was with some type of network issues during the 13th Oct week. That caused to same stuff only to be released over the STORE at 23th of Oct.
Civilization Revolution (had online issues and still has after 2 patchs) got its 3th patch submitted to SCEE and SCEA on the 13th Oct week. By the way of things US users will get the patch first.
There are lots of games with their own problems and still they sell.
Even GP5P (Japanese version) had varius issues when released mainly online and a patch was very soon submitted to the users to fix: framerate (still has the same issue to this date) and the online was fix. But new issues will come when the new patch_upgrade arrives.
To end:
Great 'little' games will be always eclipsed by mainstream titles.
And:
The more complex the games are the more issues they will get.
Edit:
New DLC info is that it's coming.
And yet:
Sony at least SCEE was with some type of network issues during the 13th Oct week. That caused to same stuff only to be released over the STORE at 23th of Oct.
Civilization Revolution (had online issues and still has after 2 patchs) got its 3th patch submitted to SCEE and SCEA on the 13th Oct week. By the way of things US users will get the patch first.
There are lots of games with their own problems and still they sell.
Even GP5P (Japanese version) had varius issues when released mainly online and a patch was very soon submitted to the users to fix: framerate (still has the same issue to this date) and the online was fix. But new issues will come when the new patch_upgrade arrives.
To end:
Great 'little' games will be always eclipsed by mainstream titles.
And:
The more complex the games are the more issues they will get.
Edit:
New DLC info is that it's coming.
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