I'm a big boy, I can handle it lol. Back to business...
Its not that PD isn't up to task for what people ask for, its the fact that every game developer has their own vision on how the want their game carried out. We as the end user have little to no say in what happens, we can only hope and dream. Sure, sometimes devs look to the forums to see where they can improve BUT this is usually for bug fixes and things of that nature. Only struggling titles will look to the boards and find every single possible way to revive a soon to be dead game. This is not the case, in my opinon, for GT.
Uh, then why does a iracing have a twitter feed to interact with fans, why does CM have an open forum asking fans and listening to what they want for the next F1 game (i.e. 2010 not having a safety car but 2011 having one because of fans). Turn 10 has listened to fans hence why FM4 is quite different in many areas. Those are not struggling titles by any stretch of the mind. Rather they are looking at it from an enthusiast point of view and trying to give fans more realistic freedom, in a game that is suppose to simulate or mirror a real life setting. GT also seems to do that to an extent and the mods here have said that PD does look at GTP, there was a thread on it even with it being proven factual that PD does use this site to an extent.
The idea that users of a product or item don't have some say on the bottom line of said product is a bit naive. Improvement in any of these items would never have happened and I already pointed out in that past post items that PD put in this game due to buyer/fan feedback.
Point taken but I surely wasn't on the vote for NO (time shift, weather, and damage). To each his/her own.
I understand and it was not my intention to point you out as one of them, I realize now that I could have done more to make that obvious. For that I apologize.
Its hardly fair to compare a PC game to console. PC will win every time! PC hardware can be superior to that of a console making it easier for devs to really beef the games up without limitation (as consoles are fixed hardware). I only play console games, I don't own a gaming computer, that's for work only. I have an XBox and I've played FM3 and PGR. As they weren't bad games, I'd still stick with GT5.
I never said it was fair, but it is a factor. People and such devs for console are always going to try and reach PC sims within the boundaries a console will allow. I know and others should know that no console of this gen and probably the next will get to that level, yet a livery maker/editor isn't something that these boundaries withhold or prevent.
To the other point I wasn't talking solely about numbers. I merely said that there are NEW USERS on here on a daily basis wanting tips on GT5. When I see a new user asking for advice, I take it they just bought the game.
That's not always the case though, and ultimately they become a number to a statistic. There have been plenty of users I've seen in my time here that claim they've owned the game since day one and were either lurking as guest on the site or just found out about the site rather than just bought the game.
The motto is "The Drive Of Your Life". I'm pretty sure that's why people (even me) come to that conclusion.
Yet that is a false reality because the very game maker even believes that the game isn't just a driving sim but also a racing sim. It does so to such an extent that it wants to build real life racing drivers out of the gamers that play said game. It’s fine you see it that way, but realistic wise as a fact, PD market the game as a driving/racing sim.
I'm not saying you must give up one for the other. I'm saying, if you're going to to something, do it right. When PD gets the game running perfect (as we can see there are some problems/glitches) THEN they can venture off into different aspects.
Which makes sense and I agree, I also think the same as far as their attempts on new features to this game that will likely be on future games.
However, the idea here is that it should be on the plans and as you say (paraphrasing) navigated correctly.
As per your last statement (about me being biased), I don't intend to nor care to go into debate about which game is better, I don't care. I just generalized things for others reading. There are a lot of people who still compare GT to NFS.
Okay but why generalize and seem like your just doing a simple defense of GT? Then again that doesn't matter I suppose, but do you see why people might think to say what I just did, due to over generalizing the topic at hand?
I'm not trying to say they are better than GT really, more so wanting to know why people intend to defend a group of devs that seem years behind many others. To me it seems either PD can do it or they really can't. I see the prior being far more realistic than the ladder
Also I don't see why others would do that but I get your point.