While cleaning out my NG reader (and shortly after installing
the SBK 2001 demo) I came across the following interesting
quotes regarding AMA Superbike Racing made more than a
year ago while deciding which folders to delete:
Mark S. Miller:
> You get upgrades forever for free.
Forever, as in waiting forever for an upgrade?
Charles Joyner:
> We will have the more difficult models available throughout
> the end of the year.
[...]
> We are going to stay with it and keep developing it.
Umm, OK. Fix that dreaded online lock-up problem yet?
Bob McCarthy:
> AMA Superbike will continue be developed well "forever".
[...]
> This is a very ambitious project with a long life.
[...]
> Frankly, I would hit the upgrade button every time you
> play
No upgrade available for the last six months and legitimate bug
reports continue to go completely unanswered on the Motorsims
forum. Meanwhile EA Sports releases a SBK 2000 demo in early
March followed this September by a SBK 2001 demo. Ouch.
- George
This reminds me of "download new cars via the internet" on the box for
Sports Car GT, and we got nothing for six months until finally we got three
cars, which weren't even new carshapes, just paintjobs.
Thankfully people in the sim-racing community hacked the car files and
produced their own.
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> > You get upgrades forever for free.
>
> Forever, as in waiting forever for an upgrade?
>
> - George
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>While cleaning out my NG reader (and shortly after installing >the SBK 2001 demo) I came across the following interesting >quotes regarding AMA Superbike Racing made more than a >year ago while deciding which folders to delete: > >Mark S. Miller: >> You get upgrades forever for free. > >Forever, as in waiting forever for an upgrade?"George M. Smiley" <[email hidden]> wrote
> While cleaning out my NG reader (and shortly after installing
> the SBK 2001 demo) I came across the following interesting
> quotes regarding AMA Superbike Racing made more than a
> year ago while deciding which folders to delete:
Argh *don't* bring the AMA SBK stuff back :) It's just too nightmarish.
Eventually, the developpers just understood that they had to go over the
title and concentrate on their next title. I mean AMA SBK had so much
potential but even if it was upgraded for free for the next 5years, it would
be a miss. It's now free to buy, it's free to race, so they throw the towel
a long time ago. Just a first strike to my eyes, let's see if their next
title is a single-hit. The game engine is still one of the best on the
market, and darn those tracks are perfect..
--
-- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard>
-- May the Downforce be with you...
-- http://www.WeRace.net
-- People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise
how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
I think Motorsims biggest problem was they "thought" they could
transfer the Warbirds busness model over to racing. The difficulty they
didn't understand was the passage of time. When Warbirds and Air Warrior
were released they were the ONLY programs that allowed more than
one or two users to play together... As such, many flight simmers paid
HUGE ammounts of cash to enjoy this unique enviroment and essentially
beta test the programs for years.
But Papy beat them to the punch...with first Hawaii and then Nascar 3 we
have gain a fairly massive racing enviroment. Since N3 is free and so is
GPL and Nascar Heat, it will be difficult to recoup the development costs
from a paying online community, especially one that most likely would resent
a
lengthly beta period hidden under the guise of continuing game development.
BUT! Having said that....I will agree with Y...
Nobody has modeled tracks as well as the first Motorsims effort.
I hope they survive to build on their first effort and bring out a quality
title.
