hmmm, doesnt seem too good does it if they've basically spent their budget by the end of 2012, and "they'll get by" is their solution for how they'll continue to fund a project costing them 300k a month (!!) which clearly has a good 6-9mo work still required.
Who's responsible for managing the budget? It shouldnt take a genius to understand at 200-300k a month, on a budget of 3.75m, just when the project must be completed by to meet that budget. Theres only been 1 month when they've met their outgoings with people contributions, and that was when they said they might have a big investor and it could be the last opportunity to upgrade.
What i dont understand is they're putting people on 'side projects' so they're not working on pCARS, and thats supposed to help. Im assuming that Biker Bash is the side project, which is some fairly average budget steam game type deal.
Whats the betting they attach IOU's onto the project, take a bigger % of profits in return, and nobody gets a say in the matter.
Reaper:
You think they honestly had any influence? Im not so sure personally. Its not like the tracks the people were asking for were ever going to be junk tracks, they were always going to be the same dozen or so tracks which every racing game gets. Theres no way they'd go without tracks like Hockenhiem, Suzuka, Nordschlieffe, Silverstone, Donington, Road America, and the handful of tracks they'd already got data for from working on Shift.
To take a poll of 1000 people and not be able to predict the most popular selections will be venues you've already built before, and would have to include to be taken seriously, isnt really that impressive.
Cars on the other hand... they havent done that, they've made a thread and ignored it so it keep their forum a bit cleaner (doesnt help much) but we've had no real say in what vehicles are added.
Theres only been a couple of venues which the community has got into pCARS, and thats been mainly because they've been free, the Aussie track and the German historic road one if thats still on the cards.
They implied when they're ready to license content, they go to the forums, and we can override their views. They have 4 licensed tracks, we had no say (although im more than happy with them, especially as their not your typical game tracks) and then a handful of cars licensed and we had no say in which cars they picked, and which werent selected.
DG:
Thats the same thing im doing, which is why i was out of touch on this financial issues. I havent played it for about 2mo perhaps, a month or so after Nordschlieffe was added basically.
I just find it all rather dishonest, and now something myself and a couple of pCARS members were working on exclusively for the pCARS community is being done for the whole sim community, as we're fed up of being misled but still want to do something. Its their loss, and everyone elses gain really.
