Trackmaniack wrote:<_< Not helping, Xymph.
It was, first and foremost, a play with words. Where's your sense of humor?
But more seriously, the post I replied to is just one of many that are helping even less. Making negative comments about things one has no clue about (because few people
really know what the deal between Nadeo and Ubisoft entails, and they probably all work at either company) is just contributing to the problem, rather than the solution. Fueling a negative atmosphere discourages existing players and doesn't make prospective new players feel welcome.
That doesn't mean the current game doesn't have problems -- plenty have been reported. But repeating them over and over is never constructive.
Trackmaniack wrote:You wanna know the truth?
Yes, I can handle it.
Trackmaniack wrote:Here it is, like it or not, but somebody's gotta say it: I went from being TM2's biggest fanboy to not hardly playing it at all. Why? A lack of an online scene where I could race in tracks that I like, single-player tracks scaling too fast, and, most importantly, the previous-generation hardware compatibility has been thrown in the trash in favor of high-resolution visuals and shiny. With the latest update, even minimum settings reduce my computer to a crawl; and forget the reason many of us even buy this game--making awesome screens and videos. Until TM2 gets -much- more highly optimized, I'm done. I regret having to say that in the public forum, but it's the truth.
Too bad. But I barely played another track online since the beta ended, and got stalled in the single-player campaign at D15. I didn't race all that much in TMF either, even though I had far more spare time then compared to nowadays.
To me the TM universe is far bigger than an arcade racing game: it's a platform that fosters a wide variety of creativity. For many, that's building tracks or skins or movies or models or ManiaLinks or whatever. For me and others, it's programming server controllers and other tools, and building/maintaining websites. I don't do that because I expect anything back for it, but because it's fun in and of itself, and rewarding to share.
So yes, the racing is very important (and I don't have any problems with it myself), so hopefully many improvements will be made over the next year or two, but meanwhile there are also enough other things to do in this community. That's why I'm sticking around -- maybe you can too by finding something in the aforementioned areas.
PS. eyebo is right, sorry about the off-topic, but VonTyrconnell started it.
Indeed, it's a very good thing that T/MX is out of its tight spot again.
