Seems like a lot of people have very short memories.
For starters, Project CARS at launch had a weird handling that was NEVER fixed. It was never taken seriously as a sim by the rF2 and AC crowd from the beginning, and didn’t improve over three iterations. You listen to the sim guys, not one of them consider it worth spending any time on. If you have hardware that can run iRacing, rF2, ACC & AC, none of Ian Bell’s products compare when it comes to the driving physics.
Secondly, seems like everybody blanked on the whole Shift period. Once again, wonky physics and no fix EVER. Just two whole games to get it right. Didn’t happen. You starting to see a pattern?
Take a walk down memory lane, go visit PC2’s bug reporting forum (just read the last few pages, nobody has time to read the whole thing..!) and take a look at what never got fixed. It’s a darn sight longer than the list of things they DID fix.
it’s this primarily that sours me on Bell’s tweet happy communication with his next batch of victims (sorry, meant to say customers!). Now, fortunately, those on PC’s have great alternatives. But in the console sector, it was PC2 or nothing. Despite PCARS handling eccentricities, at least on a wheel it was still head and shoulders above the competition (with the exception of AC which few of you PC people can probably remember what the game was like before the modders fixed it and massively improved the content… it might be instructive for a few of you to go back and boot up the OEM game with no mods!). But SMS’s glacial pace on console bug-fixing meant that, over THREE iterations of the game, the weird stuff PCARS does under understeer conditions and curbs never improved significantly.
in the meantime, during the years of Shift1 through PC3, Ian Bell never tweeted about how hard they were working on fixing the bugs. No… the only thing Bell wanted to talk about was the NEXT thing. The new console, the mobile game, the next PCARS. Never THIS one. That’s what leads me, after nearly two decades of playing his games, to have serious reservations about this new venture.
What’s he going to do AFTER it goes on sale? Flit off on his next enthusiasm, or for once in his life, stick around and FINISH THE JOB…?