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From: http://www.racesimcentral.net/

11/14 Empire's Racing Game Canned

Empire Interactive has dropped West Racings World Sports Cars after
repeatedly "hinting" to them to tone down the "sim" aspects of the game
in order to make it more "arcade-like" in order to suit the mainstream
market.  Subsequent builds showed no improvement, and as such Empire
canceled development.

I hope not!!!! I was looking forward to WSC:(

- Michael

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Nrburgring and Grand Prix Legends
(yeah it needs updating I know...)

Ruud van Gaal
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MP heeft geschreven in bericht ...

I think it's a bs rumour.
The West's always intended to make a sim for the
*** simlovers.
That's why Chris asked a lot of questions what
the true simlovers thought should be included if
possible.
They made it very clear from the beginning that it
should be of the mold of GPL and better.
They would however include a way to make the learning
curve less steep.
Their intention was to make it a special sim and
not one out of a dozen game.

I believe they made a deal with Empire to handover
the sourcecode to other developers to port it to the
Microsoft Gamebox or whatever it's called.
That version might be more arcadelike but that's none
of the West's work.

I still believe we will see the WSC-sim someday
wether it's published by Empire or someone else.

Hans van Dam

Hans van Dam

   I do believe it's time for the West brothers, or someone
from Empire, to give us a heads up as to what's going on.  

   I understand that they can't get much done if they are
going to spend hours every day answering our questions, but
a "This is what we're working on" message every 6 months
should be something they can budget in their schedule.  

   I won't abandon hope, but I have log ago abandoned any
expectations.  We'll drive it someday, or not.  

                                                      Larry

I didn't realize they were answering questions .

I'd rather see them go with another publisher and give us the ***
stuff..than tone down and get a quick release with yet another ***
physics engine...there's shit loads of crappy driving sims out there
already.
If one publisher doesn't wanna publish it...another one will..screw
empire..
If this is true then i applaude the west brothers for standing their
ground.

Slammer

Oops, I forgot to mention that they will be doing a future radio show with
some really cool sound samples from GPL2.  Unfortunately they won't comment
on a release date or a finalized set of features.  Rest assured though that
this game will be the best sim ever!   I for one can not wait for Christmas
2006!