NASCAR The Game 2011 Q&A and Impressions

[Brew]

Right now for me the only thing keeping this game from collecting dust is the paint booth. Even that is starting to get old. Its great that Eutechnyx is owning the issues and keeping in touch with the community but the wait is getting to be far too long. The games been out for two months and they still havent worked out a patch... just goes to show how flawed the game was at release.

[Flamehead]

Yeah, at this point I'm so over it that I may try out Dirt to Daytona on the PS2. Nascar 08 and 09 have their issues, and I've heard a lot of good things about Dirt to Daytona, so...

So strange that this far into the this generation of consoles, there is yet to be a NASCAR game released that's actually good with no game-breaking glitches.

[nflman2033]

Pretty much nailed it here guys, short races are lots of fun, other than that the game is garbage. I have not dogged the devs, but this is becoming a joke, still waiting on the patch, shouldn't have had to wait this long for dlc, yet they have now pushed that back till end of June, wouldn't be shocked if it gets pushed back again from there.

[Brew]

Its very frustrating... the game does have alot of potential and the devs seem to care what we think. Yet the actual product says otherwise.
If it wasnt for the paint booth this wouldve been a trade in about a month ago.

[madscientist]

Quote: Originally Posted by Brew

Its very frustrating... the game does have alot of potential and the devs seem to care what we think. Yet the actual product says otherwise. If it wasnt for the paint booth this wouldve been a trade in about a month ago.

Agreed. The paint booth keeps me interested, even though I'm still not very good at it....I have high hopes for future iterations of this title.

P.S.

One thing I would love to see is the ability to import pictures and then paint on top of the imported images.

[bigdoc85]

Very good point -- the fact that the patch has taken this long suggests that the game was extremely flawed from the beginning and that the developer may have limited resources at its disposal to fix it. I'm wondering how this will affect NASCAR 2012.

Quote: Originally Posted by Brew

Right now for me the only thing keeping this game from collecting dust is the paint booth. Even that is starting to get old. Its great that Eutechnyx is owning the issues and keeping in touch with the community but the wait is getting to be far too long. The games been out for two months and they still havent worked out a patch... just goes to show how flawed the game was at release.

[TCrouch]

Does it cost them money to submit a patch or something? They should have rolled these out in incremental fixes. The biggest 5 or 6 busted things should have been fixed and the patch rolled out within a couple of weeks. Then they work on the next batch.

This "fix everything, all at once" mentality is insane. You're ALWAYS going to end up with new stuff you find when you add features (like they did). Not to mention that simply fixing Bug A has a spiderweb effect into seven features that you didn't anticipate, and now you created Bug X. I just can't see how they decided to lump dozens of bug fixes into a patch that leaves the game in a broken state for over 2 months, and then continually add crap in that pushes it back even further. I've been in the software tech support industry for the past 12 years, and their approach to this is curious at best.

The ONLY thing that I can say that they're outstanding in is their communication. Their QA Process and decision making is extremely suspect.

[bigdoc85]

Good post!

Quote: Originally Posted by TCrouch

Does it cost them money to submit a patch or something? They should have rolled these out in incremental fixes. The biggest 5 or 6 busted things should have been fixed and the patch rolled out within a couple of weeks. Then they work on the next batch. This "fix everything, all at once" mentality is insane. You're ALWAYS going to end up with new stuff you find when you add features (like they did). Not to mention that simply fixing Bug A has a spiderweb effect into seven features that you didn't anticipate, and now you created Bug X. I just can't see how they decided to lump dozens of bug fixes into a patch that leaves the game in a broken state for over 2 months, and then continually add crap in that pushes it back even further. I've been in the software tech support industry for the past 12 years, and their approach to this is curious at best. The ONLY thing that I can say that they're outstanding in is their communication. Their QA Process and decision making is extremely suspect.