Do you mean you contest the points? If you second them, you agree with them, then I'm confused :P
I second many points, just what consequences do you see?Consequences for who?
If rFactor is a failed experiment, is Modding as such failing and without future?rFactor is a failed experiment. Not ISIs fault, but it is. Letting the community do things has proven not to work. Modding is not failed. Modding exists for every game. Relying on modding however has failed.
What does rFactor2 have to do different to not be another failure?AI that works. Netcode which is up to scratch. FFB that is up to scratch and a lobby system which works. A game that is interesting before user content. That is my short list. To expand upon these.
If you're going to have AI, it needs to work. People say online is the future and that's what everyone wants etc, and I can see that. But if you include AI, make it work. The rFactor AI is a complete mess. Even if you can somehow bodge it around the track, it doesn't race wheel to wheel properly, and it has the slow down/catch up features that only arcade racers have.
The netcode was a bit iffy when it was released, now it's way way out of date. the way cars contact, and just the way they move about the screen looks quite bad now. But that's partly from age, so hopefully rF2 comes with significant improvements.
The Lobby system is also very broken. Some servers don't appear for some drivers, hosting doesn't always work, etc. It's just plain bad.
Most importantly, the game has to have proper content. I don't want rFactor 2 to come out and all we're left with is running around Lime Rock in Renault Meganes for 6 months again. That isn't interesting. Whilst rF2s content appears to be a significant improvement over rF it looks very thinly spread whilst covering a large area. How many historic tracks do we have for that historic single seater? If it's only 1 or 2 then it won't really hold my interest very long.
rFactor to me, is currently useless. Almost everybody I know has moved on. Either to iRacing, to Simbin games, some even to LFS and back to GPL. It takes too much work to get stuff working, and then it relies on the community being awesome. If rF2 has good stock content, I'll buy it. Probably on release day. If it relies on user content to make up the short falls, I won't buy it. It was a nice idea, but it didn't work.
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