David02 wrote:
All the devs work their asses of for this game. Just keep it to yourself dude.
I'm just going to have to correct this. One dev working full time on this project would be able to rewrite the entire game in a year. I have come to realize that this isn't a game that is getting the full attention of the developers, in the sense that it seems they have other lines of work, or something. I it very sad, because this game has a lot of potential. There are tons of racing simulators that are being developed, but sadly no other driving simulators. NetKar Pro, EuroTruck Simulator 2, Live For Speed, Assetto Corsa.. The list goes on. Some of these literally have one guy doing everything, and it's frequently updated with amazing amounts of stuff.
I am very upset that this simulator's potential isn't being maximized. It's barely copacetic at this point. It feels like Kivlov holding fort on the forums, while whoever is developing the game does some things occasionally. The whole thing feels very unprofessional, and I wished they'd upped their game after having gotten a fair bit of attention.
However, they're leaving themselves in an extremely vulnerable position, if anyone else decides to do what they're doing. So let's hope someone does, because it would take very little effort to surpass this game's quality, sadly. EuroTruck Simulator 2 is an analogous game, here. It's based around the same type of content, and it has a comparable team size. Yet, the game feels extremely polished, professional and well worked out. The road network easily ten thousand times bigger than that of City Car Driving, has supported left and right hand driving (in Europe and the UK respectively, so geologically based) and left and right-handed cars since release. They also go out to Scandia, Mercedes etc to record the sounds of the trucks they use, has actual licensing deals.
In the time it took City Car Driving to get right-handed traffic, EuroTruck Simulator got an expansion with new trucks and several fully fleshed out countries. It feels more professional, because obviously their developers have developed internal tools, and have built their game around modularity, where they reuse exists and road templates to more quickly make new road. Maybe they've even made their own map editor. At any rate, I'd frankly be surprised if the game's code exists in a subversion system anywhere. I'm happy it exists, but I also hope it's done more professionally in the future, either by this team, or someone else that realizes what a fragile position CCD is in.
Everything just feels dated and unprofessional. From the forums, to the incredibly slow download times, to the fact that a new version of the game means you need to delete your previous version, or the fact that a "minor update" is nearly 400MB. And the fact that we're never updated on when anything happens. It feels like the devs have no respect for us, their customers, and that has me far from wanting to continue to support this game.