I caved... I am not a fan of Early Access titles, at all. Regardless of the company. It allows them to use the 'Well, its EA' excuse. It says you can't finish a product without having more money, so somewhere in dev cycle, something went wrong. Anyways, I caved. I couldn't take TS12 anymore and that hot garbage that it is in 2018. Software code that feels like its still Trainz 2004 and the year 2004. The lag, the skipping, the slow loading, just awful.
So I caved last night on TS19 after getting a little bonus, and despite all my hate for EA, i caved. Boy am I glad I did!
But....
Few things that are just making me SMH..
- If you are selling a product in EA phase, please, for the love of god, actually finish a route, with a little polish. If you want people to dish $70 out (insane btw, this isn't DCS World, This isn't a full sim, its a railroad management game. $70 is absurd for what the current product is, mentally insane.) finish a bloody route. I played Kickstater 2 last night for 2 hrs into wee hours of morning, and I cringed. No rotating textures when laying down ballast, no rotating textures when putting down lots of ground cover. Grass all over mainline tracks, Lighting looks terrible at its default time of day. Including non-PBR locos into the session. It's amateur hour. I was cringing the whole time when going down the line and seeing them just click textures or a big copy and paste job. No rotating textures ANYWHERE. This is Route Making 101 that N3V preaches and every community member. Yet you are selling it in this state? I'd be embarrassed to show off this route. Yet KSC2 is your 'show off' route of new assets... Yikes!
- Content Vault... I caved for the $15 a month to test it out, and also to take the 25% off and use it to buy TS19 (I hope you can do this) and then cancel next month. The vault does not appeal to me at all, and I'm wondering why you are putting FREEWARE into a PAID CONTENT VAULT. I cringed again when I went to go pick my 5.... Why in gods earth are you offering CR SD60 as PAYWARE in a pick list, when its free off JR.... The BNSF SD70MAC H3, is also Freeware.....The ECML route...is previous T:ANE... why is this on content vault for a price... Shouldn't TS19 owners be getting T:ANE routes anyway for free, some downloaded when I first booted up TS19. (Also can i delete those? I could care less for anything UK and all it does is just fill up HDD space and useless assets). Your prices in the vault are higher MSRP then you even sell for. Example: NS SD60 Vet unit, is $12.99 yet in vault you make it seem higher like you getting a deal.... its listed as $15.99 crossed out.
- It says I own T:ANE Dlx now, where are the Dlx routes? Seems you give us the bonus routes upon login, but what about the DLX ones, are these later?
I didn't even select anything because nothing is worth even for free. Why would i go and pick old assets from T:ANE and have to go in and re-do all to bring up to TS19 standards. I thank you for the content, but with a big leap as TS19 is from TS12 and I skipped T:ANE, that be like buying a Tesla and keeping it in garage and only driving the 98' Honda Civic... But that could just be me and a personal thing IMHO.
Overall, easily 7/10 for TS19, blown away and how much TS12 looks like a hot steaming pile of garbage compared to 19.
It loses 3 points easily for the $70 price tag. I know that's gonna get lowered after Early Access, I'd bet $100 on it. $70 is too high for this, its not a full blown sim. You also justify the $70 by including a 90 Day FCT, take that out for 30 and charge $60. Kinda shady of ya N3V. Then $15 a month, this isn't an MMO. Only way this is even slightly justified is, if you pump out new content monthly. And no, Content Vault does not count as 'content' IMHO when the new standards for TS19 are higher. 14 day preview and early access to Trainz feature that everyone else gets is not a selling point. I'd love to see the internal stats and see how many monthly subs you are actually keeping, vs how many just are using it to test TS19 and then go nah. Again, then you see $70 and almost want to go nah too. Especially after what I saw in KSC2... BIG YIKES! But the upgrade alone from TS12 to 19... is how you sold me. T:ANE to me now just looks like a sad bandaid fix of a game of TS12. TS19 actually looks like we got something new here, and thank you! Despite my concerns and negative points!
Cheers
So I caved last night on TS19 after getting a little bonus, and despite all my hate for EA, i caved. Boy am I glad I did!
But....
Few things that are just making me SMH..
- If you are selling a product in EA phase, please, for the love of god, actually finish a route, with a little polish. If you want people to dish $70 out (insane btw, this isn't DCS World, This isn't a full sim, its a railroad management game. $70 is absurd for what the current product is, mentally insane.) finish a bloody route. I played Kickstater 2 last night for 2 hrs into wee hours of morning, and I cringed. No rotating textures when laying down ballast, no rotating textures when putting down lots of ground cover. Grass all over mainline tracks, Lighting looks terrible at its default time of day. Including non-PBR locos into the session. It's amateur hour. I was cringing the whole time when going down the line and seeing them just click textures or a big copy and paste job. No rotating textures ANYWHERE. This is Route Making 101 that N3V preaches and every community member. Yet you are selling it in this state? I'd be embarrassed to show off this route. Yet KSC2 is your 'show off' route of new assets... Yikes!
- Content Vault... I caved for the $15 a month to test it out, and also to take the 25% off and use it to buy TS19 (I hope you can do this) and then cancel next month. The vault does not appeal to me at all, and I'm wondering why you are putting FREEWARE into a PAID CONTENT VAULT. I cringed again when I went to go pick my 5.... Why in gods earth are you offering CR SD60 as PAYWARE in a pick list, when its free off JR.... The BNSF SD70MAC H3, is also Freeware.....The ECML route...is previous T:ANE... why is this on content vault for a price... Shouldn't TS19 owners be getting T:ANE routes anyway for free, some downloaded when I first booted up TS19. (Also can i delete those? I could care less for anything UK and all it does is just fill up HDD space and useless assets). Your prices in the vault are higher MSRP then you even sell for. Example: NS SD60 Vet unit, is $12.99 yet in vault you make it seem higher like you getting a deal.... its listed as $15.99 crossed out.
- It says I own T:ANE Dlx now, where are the Dlx routes? Seems you give us the bonus routes upon login, but what about the DLX ones, are these later?
I didn't even select anything because nothing is worth even for free. Why would i go and pick old assets from T:ANE and have to go in and re-do all to bring up to TS19 standards. I thank you for the content, but with a big leap as TS19 is from TS12 and I skipped T:ANE, that be like buying a Tesla and keeping it in garage and only driving the 98' Honda Civic... But that could just be me and a personal thing IMHO.
Overall, easily 7/10 for TS19, blown away and how much TS12 looks like a hot steaming pile of garbage compared to 19.
It loses 3 points easily for the $70 price tag. I know that's gonna get lowered after Early Access, I'd bet $100 on it. $70 is too high for this, its not a full blown sim. You also justify the $70 by including a 90 Day FCT, take that out for 30 and charge $60. Kinda shady of ya N3V. Then $15 a month, this isn't an MMO. Only way this is even slightly justified is, if you pump out new content monthly. And no, Content Vault does not count as 'content' IMHO when the new standards for TS19 are higher. 14 day preview and early access to Trainz feature that everyone else gets is not a selling point. I'd love to see the internal stats and see how many monthly subs you are actually keeping, vs how many just are using it to test TS19 and then go nah. Again, then you see $70 and almost want to go nah too. Especially after what I saw in KSC2... BIG YIKES! But the upgrade alone from TS12 to 19... is how you sold me. T:ANE to me now just looks like a sad bandaid fix of a game of TS12. TS19 actually looks like we got something new here, and thank you! Despite my concerns and negative points!
Cheers
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