What’s Going On With The Class 90?

So sad. Literally the second UK add on I don't own (the first being the Athena Railtour one) and tis all cause of this feedback.

Athena it's pretty obvious where the blame lies. This one I've no clue but I am sure that all parties share some of it.

 

We have to fair about this because…

A, We haven’t heard anything from the horses mouth, ATS.
B, We haven’t heard anything official from DTG.

However in saying this doesn’t mean they (Both) should get off lightly.
Someone has to take full responsibility for the situation. Who is tho?, DTG,,ATS?.
Apparently the little birds tweet that ATS is waiting on DTG. Now to be fair to ATS in his first original YTV to address the initial release issues he does say and quote: “He can’t do testing for consoles” End quote.

So back to square one.

And I feel it’s only fair the community has its say if left in the dark again. That fear of oh not again.
SLAP ON THE HEAD moments. It’s hard on customers pockets and more importantly their overall morale or mental mood when money is involved. Come on DTG we’re all in the same boat, some people can’t even afford to eat.

So if DTG doesn’t work with us the community how can anyone start to support or build new.
The more it goes on the worse it will get all round.

We buy a product to enjoy, not to Q&A sessions or BETA testers reporting everything back to no avail.
I can see how Devs and 3rd parties feel. DTG publish, so does the book stop with them, higher staffed decisions makers.

Money men don’t care about games, just the revenue. I often wonder if someone is making DTG struggle, go pop so they can claim the franchise and business.

Anyway enough from me, but I am very curious to how all this will finally pan out.
There’s enough heat in the pan so no one at DTG can blame the cooker

✌.

 

Me neither, it's more the timetable which is stopping me at the moment.

I'm sure I will get it at some point as I don't doubt it will be improved, I don't believe there is any conspiracy.

Still as usual some jumped in and bought it and are now angry.

 

Well we need some people to jump in and buy DLC otherwise there'd be nobody to report the issues, it's not as if the store description warns potential customers the the product is substandard and doesn't work

Still, until DTG get their act together I'm holding off DLC purchases until I've at least seen reviews and / or bugs have been addressed, and mostly buy in sales now. A stark change from two years ago when I'd every UK and US DLC on day one, plus any others that might take my fancy.

As DTG is the company uploading the DLC to Steam for customers to purchase, as far as I'm concerned it's up to them to test the final builds of their products before release and send it back to the 3rd party if it's deemed unsuitable, which clearly 60 seconds of testing would have identified in the case of the 90 (I don't buy the "wrong build" excuse at all this time around, considering the amount of time it's taking them to retrieve the correct version from one of their servers...)

JB

 

Plenty of streams showing it off and off course the reviewers who make money from slating DLC, which they then refund.

Also many have bought it and are happy with It.

It seems the most vociferous complainants are the ones buying DLC on a whim.

 

I think it's perfectly reasonable for people to buy something and expect it to work without any (major) issues. Just as I also think it's perfectly reasonable to be unhappy when it doesn't.

Of course, at this point I expect stuff to have major issues at this point, and am glad I held off the 90 (and the 805 for that matter, although both were probably sale purchases anyway)

 

i bought it day one, I'm mildly annoyed at the day one faults, but overall I'm happy with it, could it have had more timetable slots, aye it could, but you can add your own routes as long as you don't need stopping markers and the like, and tbh the scoring system in TSW means nothing to me, i don't play because i can make a number go up so not running scenarios or proper timetable runs is irrelevant.

 

I watched a few of the ambassadors' previews and that gave me enough info to not want to buy it. It was indeed that obvious.

 

It's a shame because the timetables are a mess. When the 70 comes out this would really have been a fantastic route (wcml), you'd have the 66s 90s and 70 on the wembley to tunstead stone
The game is feeling less and less aimed at enthusiasts and more a cash building exercise. Ramming out as much content as possible.

It's just a matter of trust, If you place any sort of trust in Dovetail games you'd buy things day one. I've always been that sort of person. For 2 decades I buy my games at launch, Nintendo, PlayStation whatever

I am not a regular TSW player, I probably play a few hours a month, certainly less than 10 hours. 5 or 6 full route runs through the month and bits here and there. So for me it's not the end of the world when I spend £12 on some DLC that isn't perfect , it's just disappointing when you play it and it reeks

 

That’s why you play the DLC, but don’t buy the DLC (if you know you know).

 

It's a matter of spending a few minutes doing some research.

This isn't even a DTG release either.

 

Well presumably at some point if you keep refunding they will stop you doing so.