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I tried to get this to Firemint in private, but you have to register with them to give feedback, so since I can't be anonymous and private, here it is in public. I loved the first version of Real Racing, but Real Racing 2 is a much worse experience even though the graphics are better and the game is more responsive on a fourth generation iPod touch. |
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BOSSY BEAN COUNTERS (AN OPEN LETTER TO FIREMINT)I hate the Pit Lane. Hate it. Whoever suggested it or advocated for it should not be allowed to participate in your future product designs. I am completely serious. I'm sure this person is a bean-counter, and a bossy one at that. I am sure they are talented at providing those skills to your company and every company needs those folks. But since they think these skills are something that normal people enjoy, you must keep them away from your product. You are in the business of creating escapist games, in this case, one that lets people experience an impressively realistic simulation of driving fast (and, I admit, sometimes recklessly) without experiencing any real-world consequences. Introducing money into the equation ruins the whole escape from reality. Why not make me pay an insurance premium and for repairs when there's a crash? (And if you did rescue the game from the bean-counter's suggestion to do so, you have my thanks and sympathy for sparing us.) Another example: the control-freak way the game tells me when I have to paint my car before it lets me continue to race is something that only a truly obnoxious bureaucrat could conceive of. How is that fun? Picking a color, I understand. Picking a color when I just want to get on with the next round brings the adrenaline rush to a screeching halt. Nobody races in any sport because they like filling out the forms and arguing about equipment, uniforms, etc. This is exactly the kind of thing a computer game should abstract away. If I wanted to mix and match parts for my car, I would use eBay. Or an avatar creator. Or cut-out dolls. But I bought a racing game. Just let me race, not hunt around for the cars and parts that give me some narrow horsepower range. Whatever joy the new graphics and my new iPod brought to Real Racing evaporates whenever I have to tend to the completely unnecessary bureaucratic nonsense you added. Please get rid of it. |
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