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I initially read into the on-line shop incorrectly.  My bad.  Keep on keepin on
Westies.  Bring on the demo - I'll buy in.

- Dave Cook

But I gotta say, all the negativity on this board towards RL would really
suck if I was in their position. I mean, they are trying to make a game for
us, it'd just be really discouraging reading on RAS people telling newbies
how the game is "never going to come out" and all that.

Regardless of history, these guys are making a racing game! How cool is
that??? I'd LOVE to be in their position, and I'd do my best to please
people on RAS who are so serious about racing sims. I'd feel so bad reading
some of the remarks every day that I'd almost want to give up, y'know?

Who knows, with the support from some of the amazing drivers and intelligent
people in here, who knows what this game could be like? A new racing sim is
cool with me.

Mike
http://mikebeauchamp.com

They have been issuing empty promises for 3 years. You are going to
start believing them now?

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Todd Walker
http://twalker.d2g.com
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I cannot believe how gullible so many folks related to this deal are.  I
think this is some cruel joke on the sim racing community, or just two guys
who have bitten off more than they can chew.

I want a Bear, A Hat and a Shirt.  Oh yeah, put my name down for a pair of
the RL racing Slippers too!

George Sandman

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There I go talking about Bourban again Jan :-)

Darf

Just remember that is a two way street.  With no management in place a on
project its very easy to go off on tangents or make unneeded changes.  When
your so close to a project it is easy to have blinders on.  Another area of
concern on small team development projects is "group think" where in people
get into the same mind set and do not question the direction things are
headed.  I am not saying this will happen on RL but it is a very common
problem in software development.  There is a lot more to software
development than a couple guys sitting writing code all day.

As for the concept of the online store that isn't a bad idea and a good way
to raise some small funds, however I cannot imagine making enough on these
items (even if they make $5 a piece profit) to fund the development.  It
needs to be seen as a means of promotion and nothing more.  If this is truly
only a 2 man team who will be fulfilling orders for the store, handling
shipping, getting products made, not to mention maintaining the website and
other day to day activities.  Being involved in software development myself
and running my own company I can tell you that a lot of time is used up on
tasks not directly related to actually producing code.

I wish the West the best but again all they have produced to date is
marketing material.  I think if they can get out even a basic demo it would
got a long way in winning over a suspicious group and end a lot of this
speculation.

Not even a full retail CD waved in their faces would convince some people
that it's not an elaborate hoax.  Some people are worse than Apollo
*** theorists round here.

Doug

The fact that they even say this is worrysome enough!

-Larry

   That's because they won't be using a FULL cd, but one of those credit
card sized thingmajobs.
If there are shadows in two directions, what does that say about bouncing
around on the moon?  :)
dave henrie

Darf

Some people are realists, after all these years we have not seen a thing and
we won't . I hope
I'm wrong I would love to see this project materailize, but we have been
down this road before
and it feels to familar. The Wests are putting the cart before the horse,
with pricing and promotion
stuff and not even having produced a sim yet. Its just plain BS pure and
simple. Lets see a Demo!
Surly they have had enough time (years) to have some basic gound work
completed on somthing real.
Now go buy a teddy bear. :)

Darf