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F*ck!
I just bought the RWD XR GT in Live for Speed (OK, so I don't drive
much) and spent the last 20 minutes doing nothing but doughnuts and
powerslides on the S/F straight. The AI drivers just sat there parked
after the finish line and shook their heads in disbelief of the
spectacle.
This is SOOOO much fun! I could fork up $40 for this demo.

/petern

After you finish you can go around the course backwards. When you get to the
finish line, hit the parked cars head-on. :)

You know, that's something to consider. I enjoy this demo so much that I
almost feel guilty not paying for it. I don't know if everyone would pay $40
for a demo, but I would certainly pay $20 or so, especially if it came with
a rebate coupon for the full version (6 to 12 months from now). Add one more
track (maybe Laguna Seca or Lime Rock), replay control, more control over
the axes and multi-controller, and it's all set for online racing. Most of
our local, real racers only drive one or two tracks anyway. Probably some of
the track gurus will also come out with nice stuff.
I don't know the financial status of the LFS team, but it is something to
consider. Or, maybe a basic release of the game now, with the changes I've
mentioned, and then an add-on pack later. It sure is nice to see a
development team take this kind of pride in their work.
GPL wasn't a big financial success. I hope that's not going to be true for
LFS.

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"Peter Nilsson"  wrote

They whipped out that multiplayer/dual-axis patch pretty fast. Impressive.

 but I would certainly pay $20 or so, especially if it came with

Yet the west brothers suggest such a scheme for their beta program - and get
totally lambasted.

Go figure

DOug

/me starts a "spot the difference" competition between RL and LFS.

Andrew McP

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:40:42 +0100, "Doug Ellison"

Well, people have driven LFS...
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- Igor -

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:21 +0100 (BST),

1) The fully working LFS demo is on my pc, the RL demo is not.

2 + the rest) Not important untill a RL demo is released.

Andre

So maybe they should start to charge for the demo now ? Or would it
have gotten as popular as it is now if it costed anything to begin
with.

Logic is a nice car....

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Doug....the one man West's defender :)

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My opinion....

LFS-no publicity,all work done in secret then released,great demo

WESTS-Years of self publicity,no evidence of work done for us to use,never
released demo.

What comes in the future might change this.

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