F1Racer:
That quote needs printing out and framing. It’s so true.

Yeah I imagine SMS and EA are in floods of tears, which would make counting the huge pile of cash they’ve just made from NFS Shift difficult.

Am I the only one who pictured these comedians as Chris Crocker putting on lots of fake, wails, tears and eyeliner as they both cry together “Leave sim developers alone…” and ironically chastise others for shouting and crying on the internet to get attention? :D

ivotedforkodos: If I was a racing game developer, I’d take one look at the reactions of some of the so-called hardcore racing fans that post on here and wonder why I should bother trying to add to a community that will no doubt rip me apart if I don’t come close to meeting their elitist standards.

I don’t think the simracing community has a monopoly on that. Take a look at the comments on Joystiq sometime.

I watched a couple of gameplay videos, and it’s looks pretty good fun for what it is. If I was one of the iDrones, I’d definitely pick it up.

ivotedforkodos: If I was a racing game developer, I’d take one look at the reactions of some of the so-called hardcore racing fans that post on here and wonder why I should bother trying to add to a community that will no doubt rip me apart if I don’t come close to meeting their elitist standards.

That quote needs printing out and framing. It’s so true.

It’s getting increasingly embarrassing to read the responses of some of the posters on here. It’s like the comments on Youtube comments – people seem to think that being harsh and aggresive about something will get them noticed on the internet. Obviously everybody is entitled to their opinion, but maybe not everybody needs to share it all of the time. If I was a racing game developer, I’d take one look at the reactions of some of the so-called hardcore racing fans that post on here and wonder why I should bother trying to add to a community that will no doubt rip me apart if I don’t come close to meeting their elitist standards.

Not everything has to be an ultra realistic, gMotor2 powered all out sim, fun though I find those. Some things can just be a bit of entertaining fluff that you can pick up for 10 minutes and put down again as easily. I’ve really enjoyed Shift on my PS3, and I’m really impressed that I’ve got a comparable hand held version for less than the price of a trip to the cinema, so thanks for posting this Montoya or I might not have found it

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Montoya: Wow, quite a few pissed off commments here, didn’t expect that

Yeah its quite lame really isn’t it ? Seems that anything new that comes along, be it iRacing, Real Time Racing, SRT and even this, is met by someone who can put a negative and bitter twist on it.

I dunno what this is down to, whether its being spoilt, not their thing (so they must complain), a need for attention or that it just ain’t “sim” enough.
I really don’t know where it comes from.

Usually if I don’t like something I don’t comment. If I do like it and I think it’s not up to par or can be improved, I`ll say so, hopefully in a constructive way.
But to just come on and slag something off is quite pointless imo.

Anyway, the articles you post on YOUR blog don’t even HAVE to be about ‘sim’ racing. The site itself is called VirtualR not SimR.
The iphone game is 100% virtual so it counts as much as rFactor or iRacing.
Its not up to the visitors to decide that only hardcore sim news may apply.

Anyway the term ‘simulation’, which we have covered before, is not restricted to hardcore physics and graphics. In literal terms Dirt2 and even FlatOut are simulations.

Seems its usually the same names doing the complaining too. Seems if something doesn’t fit neatly into their little sim world then it needs a verbal bashing.

You post whatever you want here Montoya, don’t let these scrooges ever change that.
If its virtual and its racing, it counts !

But yeah, not sure you really want to start covering iphone racing games Rob

I just thought this is a fun story to report on, this was in no way meant to suggest that this has anything to do with real sim racing. I know a lot of readers enjoy Shift so this may be worthwile news for some… I guess not for all

Maybe I´m just the only iPhone geek around here, that might be it