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Originally Posted by kalimba
Ok...For fun, I'll give it a shot.... :
Oleg had a contract as the lead designer with UBI and had to lead the project to the finish line and release it. Things went wrong at a personnal level with those two parts. Financing would be stoped unless Oleg finishes the project that went waaaaaay over time and budget, mainly due to Oleg 's passion for "overdetailed" nit-picking accuracy- historicaly- correct of and non-essential priority things.... 
Oleg's departure was a long time ago decision so the solution was to get rid of Oleg's contract and release the game a.s.a.p... Then finally Luthier was promoted to Lead designer and went under contract with UBI to finish the project. Then he got more money and time and new staff.
These are not patches that we have from time to time, these are parts of never before done things in the game that have to be patched after release.
Luthier is not patching the game, he is completing it....
So North American release is the last hope of making some success and money out of this game...Lots of pressure.... 
That is, of course, pure speculation, but I've seen that scenario before !
SAlute ! |
You could be right, it's been released early, thats a no brainer, odd thing is for some of us it works quite well, but some of the mistakes they make are hard to understand, it looks like they need some direction, I mean how did they let the 109pp hotfix come out having fixed the lever direction, but reversed the response required by the player and slowed it down to about 1/4 speed, its been mentioned before, but surely someone tested it and if so how did it get released, it's not an intermittent thing, it is broken for everyone?
Tree, an apology isnt really required, well at least I dont require one, words are cheap anyway, they havent run over your dog or anything serious it is just a $50 game, but what we do need is the outstanding issues to be fixed, without creating new ones (QA), then they can start on getting the FM's, weather, radio and all the goodies fixed.
But they do need to get their act together and in a hurry.