Whats hillarious for people who are raging about this game is that they based their complaints off from prejudice rather than facts. Just because it's from the same dev that delivers DiRT Rally 2.0 doesnt meant that the development model will be exactly the same (free tracks for example).
It's almost like people are looking at how Codemasters has operated as a company since DiRT 4, or even earlier! When you release a game with the fanfare that Codies foisted upon it like D4, and have absolutely no support other then the bare minimum of patches to the game, before abandoning it and announcing a sequel to the more popular sub-series months later, that reflects on you as a company. When you nickel and dime players by making the vast majority of your DLC plan stuff from the previous game, and force players to buy yet another season pass to actually get new content that isn't just rehashed from the previous game, that reflects on you as a company. When you cut and slash a game enough in terms of base game content that reviewers, including the review for
this very site, mention how lacking it is, and have already announced four seasons of DLC added to the game after launch, that reflects on you as a company. Doesn't matter how you try to gussy it up saying 'wull it's free tracks guise!', that sort of thing doesn't engender good will towards players, nor to your reputation as a company.
No. The cancer are those who base their opinion on the name on the game cover.
This sort of argument never ceases to make me laugh. If what Codemasters has done with DR2.0 and now GRID 2019 was done by any of the developers and publishers that people like to rag on, people would be having fits much larger then this thread, but apparently because Codemasters operates in the niche world of racing games, it allows people like you, Magpie and Forizon to more or less exonerate it.
If what Codemasters is doing right now with GRID 2019, and with DR2.0 in the past,
was done with any other racing game developer barring Polyphony, this forum would be raising hell. Yet apparently since it's Codemasters, and people want to prescribe to the myth that Codies is still the plucky little British racing game developer in an era where such a fraternity is basically dead and buried, people are defending it and tying themselves into knots to try and exonerate it. I'm not doing that anymore, and there's already people in this thread that more or less agree and see through what has been argued about on the other side. But hey, if you want to defend it, fine by me. When GRID 2019 bombs because of the bad word of mouth from DR2.0, Codemasters as a company, and at best mixed Steam reviews like DR2.0, don't say I, or anyone else criticizing Codies in this thread, said otherwise.
