Railworks America

This was the " big announcement " to wet our appetites.

Read more here: https://live.dovetailgames.com/live/live/articles/article/big-train-sim-world-announcement

So it seems DTG is after the console market with TSW, apart from CSX:HH that is.

Wonder where that leaves the PC power user, the train simulation fans like us, Konsole Fysiks and no creative toys for the foreseeable future as DTG now needs to maintain three platforms.

Who will do their alpha and beta testing for them now though, that is the real question, many PC users, including me, have got so fed up with DTG's attitude that we've buggered off, and we've taken our wallets away with us, so, they've lost quite a few quality beta testers, and sales revenue, of course, who is going to find all the game bugs now?
DTG really ought to sever it's TSW links with the PC now and run that version solely on console, with multiplayer possibly in the upcoming months to guarantee extra sales incentive, and concentrate on getting TS2018 and future versions sorted out for us PC users, and if they don't do that, then, it'll be bye bye in the future, anyone with any forethought and business acumen would do exactly the same, but, this is DTG we are talking about here......

Cheerz. Steve.

ex-railwayman wrote:Who will do their alpha and beta testing for them now though, that is the real question, many PC users, including me, have got so fed up with DTG's attitude that we've buggered off, and we've taken our wallets away with us, so, they've lost quite a few quality beta testers, and sales revenue, of course, who is going to find all the game bugs now?
DTG really ought to sever it's TSW links with the PC now and run that version solely on console and concentrate on getting TS2018 and future versions sorted out for us PC users, and if they don't do that, then, it'll be bye bye in the future, anyone with any forethought and business acumen would do exactly the same, but, this is DTG we are talking about here......

Cheerz. Steve.

Aren't Sony very strict when it comes to quality of the games to be released on their PS4? If DTG wants to cater to the demanding PS4 market, they need to up their game when it comes to support and bug elimination.

Agree with you on the PC alpha and beta testing by paying customers that came from TS2018. Us gullible guinea pigs got the short straw and will get nothing but withered grass once (and if) the console markets take off.

Still, it remains to be seen if the current very limited, fixed and boring game modes will entice the console player sufficiently for them to part with a lot of cash for every new short route and single locomotive piece of DLC.

They should have posted this BIG announcement on 1st April not 1st June for PC users.
Only now they are going to infect consoles with their bugs!

They are making TSW the western equivalent of the old Densha de Go. Except Taito, especially with their later releases such as DDG Professional, the tram game and DDG Final did an absolutely superb job. They crafted a fun game but at its core was quite realistic as regards physics and the sounds, oh the sounds. I even learned a few word of Japanese playing the games, though not how to read Kanji it grieves me to say. Can't see DTG living up to that.

Back to your lives, citizens...

Just my thought - TSW looks to have been degraded since the console announcement(s). It looks like the game is console-oriented now. I had a lot of hope until today's announcement.

Maybe IOS and Android is next?

I'm kind of curious as to how many console players they will be able to pull away from games like Call of Duty, Battlefield, Grand Theft Auto, and racing games like Forza that are what consoles are traditionally known for.

You got a bunch of rowdy teens playing shooters and now they are expecting them to play a sim, or the adults in the room to use a console to play a sim? I think they are spreading their talent a little thin...

JOHNtheREDNECK wrote:I'm kind of curious as to how many console players they will be able to pull away from games like Call of Duty, Battlefield, Grand Theft Auto, and racing games like Forza that are what consoles are traditionally known for.

You got a bunch of rowdy teens playing shooters and now they are expecting them to play a sim, or the adults in the room to use a console to play a sim? I think they are spreading their talent a little thin...

+1

JOHNtheREDNECK wrote:I'm kind of curious as to how many console players they will be able to pull away from games like Call of Duty, Battlefield, Grand Theft Auto, and racing games like Forza that are what consoles are traditionally known for.

You got a bunch of rowdy teens playing shooters and now they are expecting them to play a sim, or the adults in the room to use a console to play a sim? I think they are spreading their talent a little thin...

Definitely, someone would not play buggy game when AAA games are there on PS4 and XBOX.

AlcoFan wrote:Maybe IOS and Android is next?

Linux

GT46PAC wrote:

AlcoFan wrote:Maybe IOS and Android is next?

Linux

In theory, yes. UE4 has native libraries for all these operating systems. Wonder about 3D performance though, OpenGL? 3D performance is probably very dependent on graphics drivers, and here lies the main bottleneck IMO. Only Windows is fully supported by nVidia and AMD.

Just "can't wait" for the Kindle and smart phone versions: Holy Eyestrain, Batman!

I won't be holding my breath on a release for the SNES classic edition, but you never know....

We should change the topic line to the GOG thread.
Not really.