>No-one can argue that there are some problems with CPR, but since you
>are in business for yourself you have to realise that Microsoft cannot
>win in this situation. They are in this to make money, we agree on
>that? They have a product which they recognise has problems, and it's
>coming up to Christmas. Missing the Christmas buying season is
>commercial suicide, so they HAVE to release it. If they wait until
>after Christmas they also risk bumping into Grand Prix Legends or the
>fabled Grand Prix 3 - not healthy for sales. Yes, it should have been
>done right, but having recognised that there are problems really there
>was nothing else to do. The product being out there, it is then up to
>us if we want to buy it.
This certainly is the reality of the situation,but it is still wrong.
Microsoft still has the responsibility to release and thus sell us a
product which lives up to their advertised hipe,which unfortunately it
didn't.
I bough the sim after reading the reviews and trying out the demo.
Fortunately for me,Comp USA will take back opened software within 30
days for credit or cash if you insist on it ,so I had nothing to
loose. And this is the only reason that I bought CPR now.
What I found was an inferior product to ICR2. So I returned it to the
store as I mentioned ina previous post. I will consider purchasing it
again after reading the reviews of the patch and trying out the new
demo.
But one of the things that I still can't understand is why they aren't
addressing the very real problem of no yellow flags.Many have posted
to this newsgroup that this is one of the major faults of the sim,yet
they are not addressing this problem.
This is the catch 22 problem that they caused not us. We are entitled
to a product that works as advertised when we purchase it,not after
they get a chance to fix it. Especially when they had Icr2 and
Nascar2 to use as a benchmark.
Yes ICR2 needed a patch to address certain problems,but the sim worked
pretty good out of the box,which CPR doesn't do,.
Regards,
Joel Willstein
