Howie47:

Maybe you should look up the meaning of vendetta? I only doubted the value of iRacing. A game that will end up costing over 1,000 USD for all the content!
While you boys make dumb criticisms and half baked accusations against Shift and it’s publisher. A game that cost 40.00 USD.
I’d much rather gamble 40$, then let some one stick a hypodermic needle in my arm, and bleed my dry!

Vendetta: An often prolonged series of retaliatory, vengeful or hostile acts or exchange of such acts.

So, your repeated criticisms of iRacing’s price scheme — even well before you tried the game — don’t fall into the category of prolonged? And they weren’t hostile?

OK. Interesting interpretation.

The accusations against Shift and EA are just as half-baked as all of your accusations against iRacing until last week. They were all based on ignorance and speculation. No one has tried Shift because there’s not a demo, and you didn’t try iRacing until you used the free trial last week.

Luis brasileiro ou luso? :P

Paul Kelly: Ironic, coming from someone who has posted all summer in iRacing threads about how overpriced that game is yet just tried it for the first time last week.

Maybe you should look up the meaning of vendetta? I only doubted the value of iRacing. A game that will end up costing over 1,000 USD for all the content!
While you boys make dumb criticisms and half baked accusations against Shift and it’s publisher. A game that cost 40.00 USD.
I’d much rather gamble 40$, then let some one stick a hypodermic needle in my arm, and bleed my dry!

Bekim: Dumb and dumber crowd?

Nothing personal Beklim. I was speaking generally of the many lame quotes. Not you specifically. Peace

choooops:

Don’t mention EA and Half-Life 2 in the same sentence, please.
Valve developed and published that. EA might have had something to do with it in the port to the consoles, but that’s all.

EA is the retail distributor of HL2 and Valve (Steam) the online distributor.
Valve developed HL2.
Sports Cart GT, F1 Championship Season 2000, F1 2001, F1 2002 and F1 Challenge ‘99-’02 were developed by ISI and published by EA.
Crysys and Crysis Warhead were developed by Crytek and published and distributed by EA (again Valve for online distribution), and the examples go on.
EA have published and/or distributed hundreds of game titles and although many are complete rubbish, quite probably due to low quality standard demands by EA itself, also there are others that are seen as some of the best games ever.

In fact the great majority of the games associated to EA brand aren’t developed by EA itself, as is the case with Shift.
Shift can be either bad, average or good, but certainly, no matter how it will end up, it’s not because it’s being published by EA that it will be worst or better then many others out there.

Personally I do hope that it will be at least entertaining, and that would mean to have a decent physics engine. If not, no harm done as there is others much more rewarding available and rFactor2 is closing in. If it will turn out to be more then entertaining and will have challenging physics better yet. Either way I will not blame nor will I praise EA, but rather SMS, as they are the ones developing it.

Take expectations down a notch and think as a car fan not as a sim racer. We’re getting tracks which look quite accurate, well modelled cars, excellent graphics. Physics are “wait and see” but there’s no way it’s going to be some arcade insanity like Burnout.

I’m more than happy to have a semi-sim with the content of NFS:Shift. it’ll be a hoot on a work day evening when you’re too tired to seriously concentrate on hitting the braking points exactly. And what better place to have that fun than in one of the hypercars.

F1Racer:

Hmmm… F1-2000, F1-2001, F1 99-02, and I’m no football fan but the Fifa series doesn’t look too bad either.
Spore, The Sims, Crysis, Crysis 2, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Battlefield, Dead Space, Medal of Honour Airborne, Half Life 2.
Not that you have to be a fan of all of those but they are hugely popular, the F1 series in particular for us lot. To say those have no substance would be quite silly.

Don’t mention EA and Half-Life 2 in the same sentence, please.
Valve developed and published that. EA might have had something to do with it in the port to the consoles, but that’s all.

Howie47:

I guess you didn’t hear that the cars are modifiable. So the Megane probably had a racing tranny installed!
Hope that takes care of all the dumb and dumber crowd today!

Dumb and dumber crowd? I think you misunderstood. I said tranny whine should only be on race cars or after you apply upgrades (like a racing tranny). I know the renault megane was upgraded, its pretty obvious that it is. I was just simply asking if anyone knew if the stock cars would have tranny whine (maybe if there is a video I haven’t seen with a stock car or something that proves it) as that would be ridiculous.

UncleChuckle:
EA are the living embodiment of all flash, no substance.

Hmmm… F1-2000, F1-2001, F1 99-02, and I’m no football fan but the Fifa series doesn’t look too bad either.
Spore, The Sims, Crysis, Crysis 2, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Battlefield, Dead Space, Medal of Honour Airborne, Half Life 2.

Not that you have to be a fan of all of those but they are hugely popular, the F1 series in particular for us lot. To say those have no substance would be quite silly.

Howie47:

Maybe that is why they’re still in business, while companies like “Simbin” aren’t.

So when did Simbin go out of business then? They have been putting out a lot of promotional stuff for Race On for a company that’s out of business.

Sorry, I refuse to have a battle of wits with someone who is clearly unarmed.

EA are the living embodiment of all flash, no substance.

Howie47:

On the “Shift” forum they have a sticky titled, “For those with a vendetta”. They should go post there!

Ironic, coming from someone who has posted all summer in iRacing threads about how overpriced that game is yet just tried it for the first time last week.

Glass house, meet stone.

Howie47:

On the “Shift” forum they have a sticky titled, “For those with a vendetta”. They should go post there!

No need to type for them, it’s read only. ;)

Bekim: I’m a little worried about the tranny whine…will you hear it on stock cars? I hope not. A stock car with tranny whine would be a little weird, it should only be on race cars or when you apply upgrades.

I guess you didn’t hear that the cars are modifiable. So the Megane probably had a racing tranny installed!

Hope that takes care of all the dumb and dumber crowd today!