Patience is a virtue...

[Blackdog_kt]

This thread will only end up going down in flames anyway, so here's my take on things.

In my personal case, i knew what i was getting into and i decided to buy it anyway. My decision, my problem, i spot and submit the bugs for them to fix, if i can find workarounds i'll post them to get other players up and running and that's all there is to it.

On to the grand scheme of things now...

I believe the communication from the developer team wasn't very good. On the other hand, and i don't mean this as an excuse for them but just as a statement of factual past experience, they were always lacking in that regard. Anybody who has dealt with a developer and their products for some length of time knows what are their strong and weak points, so i knew we would get a lot of cool stuff mixed in with bugs and a lack of information. It's just a matter of personal evaluation for each of the fans, deciding if they will go ahead and take the dive into the new sim or wait until it matures a bit.

I believe some people got genuinely misled, especially if they were new guys who never tried out the previous series and these are owed some kind of apology no doubt.

What i seriously don't get and don't believe for one second is that certain veteran members of the community, with quite a few years of experience behind their backs on how the previous series unfolded and how maddox games generally operates were totally unaware of the coming troubles, especially when in many cases they were spelling it out themselves during the development phase like a chorus of Cassandras.

No, these guys simply couldn't wait for the first reviews and/or couldn't stand not having the sim on their hard drive even though they knew what was coming. As such, if they want to maintain some kind of credibility they also have to acknowledge their part of the blame not in the state of the sim but in their self-inflicted angst.

In other words i'm not saying the state of the sim is their fault, far from it. I'm saying their fault is buying into something they knew (knew is actually mild, it's more like prophecised and going all "i told you so") would have teething problems and as such, i can't really sympathize with their point of view. Of course it's their right to maintain whatever point of view they want, i'm just saying i'm not convinced one iota and choose to maintain a different opinion.

I mean, if the most pessimistic of people during the development phase decide to be day one buyers instead of doing the sensible thing and waiting it out, i can't help but chuckle a bit.
It's self-inflicted agony and e-masochism at its best, turned into a sense of entitlement out of pretending to be misled about stuff they were predicting all along, which results in hilarious self-contradiction: it's "i told you so all along" on one hand and "i got fooled by the devs" on the other one

I don't mind to be honest, it spices up the forums and adds a welcome comedy factor to lighten up the workload of testing, bug reporting and making tutorials/troubleshooting guides for those who want to post the useful stuff. Not minding doesn't mean i won't call it for what i see it though, a valid point of view presented in a tragicomic way that saps it of its credibility.