Enough Is Enough!!! The Ongoing Saga!!! 2 Year Anniversary

Lets get realistic here, DTG, or any other company for that matter, don't care one single bit about open letters and discussions on some forums as long as the money keeps coming in.

There is only one way that will get companies attention and force change; talk with your wallet and STOP buying the cr*p DLC and rip-off yearly "new" TSW game.
That will never ever happen so people will keep crying for changes and improvements while the other group of people is lining up to be able to throw (more) money into the lap of DTG.

 

I'm "lining" up to buy content I like for a game I enjoy, when I feel it is worth it and I'll use it. It's nothing to do with throwing money at DTG, there is actually a middle ground.

Still I'm surprised that anyone would bother with the forums if they thought that DTG's content was utter rubbish.

 

It gives them an outlet/something to do.

 

The list on PC can be shortened to this. And the saves work pretty well in most cases, even though I don't use them often. It seems things aren't all that bad.

 

It's a somewhat complicated matter, this business of trying to please everyone...

I'm satisfied with the game because it offers a huge variety of routes and trains, in addition to the timetable.

It certainly has its problems, like any other game, but they aren't solved quickly, and they drag on for years.

Now, with the end of the fiscal year approaching, they're releasing content galore because, like any company, they need to make a profit; there's no other way.

There will always be people who are unhappy with the game, and those who are content with it because it's playable in a certain way. I fall into one of those categories, as I use the game to relax and unwind from the daily grind. If I want something more realistic, I have to leave the house and look for the trains and routes I want to travel on, haha.

Now, one thing I've noticed lately is the negativity in forums in general. People are being overly critical of everything that's released, looking for flaws in the smallest details. Of course, constructive criticism is always welcome, but what we see is a hate speech directed at developers, criticizing the delay in releasing something or finding it incomplete when it is released. Perhaps that's why even those who used to interact a lot with people here on the forums (Matt, Candance, among others) no longer speak up, because they are constantly bombarded with non-constructive criticism.

As consumers, we have the right to suggest improvements or corrections to the game, but in a polite and peaceful manner, because on the other side there are also people who need to earn their salaries to survive. Remember that it's just a game and a hobby. Do other things in life too, don't get stuck to a PC screen...

 

I'd argue DTG very much made their own bed, reason a lot of people get worked up is frankly DTG have shown they often won't respond to anything less than that. Look over at TSC you have dozens of frankly pretty broken DLC's, but often not broken enough for them to cause outrage. Then you have a few like Donner Pass & WCML South, which were absurdly broken and had mass outrage, those actually got major bug fixes within months, if not weeks or release.

To pick something more recent, the fact HIS are actually going back and doing their patch isn't normal for them. I don't think their packs in TSC get patches often, if at all, but obviously the outrage over the ATSF pack was enough to make them act on it this time.

Better that it happened, but I do wonder to what degree the community would be claimer if DTG & Co. didn't take as much to respond in the first place.

 

But it's not just a PC game.

 

So, list the flaws based on your gaming platform. On PC, of course, everything is not perfect, but there are no catastrophic problems.