Gt5: Options verses Changes

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JohnSchoonsBeard
PD have made quite a few changes to the game where something has been changed across the board only to be changed back again in a following update. Often these changes are liked by some users and not by others. The dynamic chase cam changes are an example as is the cockpit view shake and there have been others. Giving users the option to play the game in the way they want to would make for an even happier community of racers.

Is it because PD aren't open minded enough to think users might prefer things differently from each other?

Do they just change things back if so many people shout loudly enough without considering the happy users who aren't so vocal but prefered changes or the way the software worked previously?

Is there a technical reason on the PS3 that makes it more difficult to give more options within a game?

Is it just easier to replace code and not worry about designing variable data fields (switches or sliders) that have to be referenced by the game with each race or whatever part of the software is affected?

Or is there another reason?
 
It might not be that simple to make those things optional. Might create new bugs aswell. If this was a PC game, little things like such could be easily modded, but with consoles you have to rely on the developers.

(It's versus btw. Verses are in songs or poems.)
 
OK8
It might not be that simple to make those things optional. Might create new bugs aswell. If this was a PC game, little things like such could be easily modded, but with consoles you have to rely on the developers.

(It's versus btw. Verses are in songs or poems.)

Having someone from Finland (Finlandian?)correct an Englishman on English lol, thats's how good our schools are now!
 
Having someone from Finland (Finlandian?)correct an Englishman on English lol, thats's how good our schools are now!

Actually it shows how good our schools are from the seventies and eighties!

Thank you. I used the full word in case "v" wasn't understood by members who weren't native English speakers. That will teach me to be so thoughtful.
 
These are relevant questions, to put it plainly. There is no way that when they just change a setting like dynamic chase-cam from 'on' to 'off', that giving us the option is a great deal of more trouble, programming wise.

Also take a look at some of the camera angles used in the Spec 2.0 Intro, they are obviously able to do some great things that the user cannot. Why?
 
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