Yeah, it was nice but it took some patience with the "randomizer" with the right inputs to make greatness. When you factor in a couple tweaks, testing it out, making a few more tweaks, testing that, etc, etc. Sometimes it took forever to make a single circuit.
It's only unethical or BS if you assume that it's something within their control but which they have decided to hold off on or have overreached. If it's something beyond their control - such as the massive delays to VGT due to the car manufacturers (which oddly, no-one is complaining about - despite being an actual missed deadline) - it's neither unethical nor BS for them to have not met even a firm deadline, much less a non-existent one.
This is my biggest problem with big developers, the lack of communication.
Ive been waiting a long time so im almost not even waiting anymore, itll just pop up when they feel like releasing it, now ill be happy if my ps3 doesnt die before it comes out
"Communication" =/= giving away company secrets. They can do one without worrying about the other.
Maybe to somebody like you, devoid of even an ounce of technical knowhow in their bones, but people who make games, and I mean the people that make them, that design and implement the systems that make games interesting and engaging, have ingenuity and insight dripping from their pores.
SMS is a crowd funded game with access to some technical data given to thousands. The situation with PD is completely different. Communication =/= giving away company secrets.Maybe to somebody like you, devoid of even an ounce of technical knowhow in their bones, but people who make games, and I mean the people that make them, that design and implement the systems that make games interesting and engaging, have ingenuity and insight dripping from their pores.
To people like them, the slightest slip from some silly marketing dude, focused on connotation and having zero idea of what words actually mean, is everything. I witnessed this on the SMS forums.
I do it myself, mostly for fun, to the degree I am able; for example, I know a lot more about AES than I'll ever publicly reveal. There is literally zero chance I am alone on that front. If PD were making any noise about it, a great many more people would know than already do. Luckily for PD, the industry opinion is still heavily stacked in the opposite direction...
On that note, consider the following from Kaz: "We’ve been working on a new system for generating sounds for a few years now". Doesn't really mean a thing to you, in the all-important practical sense, I'd wager; doesn't mean much to a marketer except "new = better"; but to me, even with my limited insight, and to the average industry veteran with far more knowledge than I? It means the game is afoot!
That has not in any way addressed my reply. You're just stomping your feet and repeating yourself.
Except your reply doesn't actually refute what he said. How does something so simple as an assurance that the feature is still targeted to even be released, 11 months after the supposedly nearly complete feature was last discussed at all, divulge any technical secrets for Turn 10 or whatever to pounce on and rush out themselves? Why is it that the only reason we have any reason to believe that the Course Maker hasn't fallen the way of the GT5 YouTube Upload or GT5
rologue Garage Import is through secondhand information that is merely "official" rather than actually official? And if PD are so worried about competition stealing the Course Maker ideas from them is indeed the reason, shouldn't they have thought of that before they gave rough but still occasionally detailed outlines of how it would work 18 months ago?
There's no communication without information. Even the act of saying something constitutes information, and the signposting / timing aspects I discussed are still applicable ("thunder stealing", as you put it - which PD do themselves, annoyingly).Except your reply doesn't actually refute what he said. How does something so simple as an assurance that the feature is still targeted to even be released, 11 months after the supposedly nearly complete feature was last discussed at all, divulge any technical secrets for Turn 10 or whatever to pounce on and rush out themselves? Why is it that the only reason we have any reason to believe that the Course Maker hasn't fallen the way of the GT5 YouTube Upload or GT5
It's certainly true that they can't just throw open the doors and let everyone into what they are working on, but saying nothing out of perceived fear of thunder stealing (and after promise of more transparency, no less) is equally ridiculous.
we should try to send all the things written so far about gt to PD and see what happens.GTP is hilarious;
The paragraphs upon paragraphs sent to each other about stuff that, in the big scheme of things, is entirely irrelevant.
Never ceases to amuse.
Although, I can't talk much about time wasting...
i more join these (at times heated) discussions as i find it more enjoyable and interesting to hear everyones views and opinion's than actually playing GT6 itself.
