Only a couple of good points have been brought up through this forever ongoing 'bitch-fest'.
All I've really seen here, primarily anyway, is racers moaning about the fact more people go on cruise servers than race. Now, if the 'majority' of people enjoy cruising and the devs are making cash from that, then the devs will be happy. If the 'majority' of people enjoy cruising and the servers are full, cruisers are happy.
So all that we can see here are a small selection of bitter forum racers who have no real server community, cause they waste their time on here crying about something they don't have to get involved in! Why be so bitter when we can have our piece of the cake, and so can you? Or is it just that racers want the bigger piece? Jealous cause we got the bigger bit at the moment?
Im sure there has been before, but I bet you rarely get people coming on here just to moan about racers being 'lame' and 'pointless'. At the end of the day, this entire game is a sim (a brilliant one at that). Whether it be racing or cruising (which clearly is incorperated in LFS now) that tickles your fancy, why should people be cursed for making a decision which doesn't affect what you do!? As mentioned - there are filters to stop/limit the possibility of racers entering the cruise world..
You can't blame the cruiser community for having more players than the racing side of LFS. Perhaps the fact that there are many newer games which are wholey racing games (cruise not an option), such as GRiD, GTR2 etc. that makes the race side of LFS weaker day by day. But I'd be very shocked if all racers converted to cruise after playing there once or twice.. lol
And for the record, I do enjoy proper racing. It may seem like a bias post, but all this negativity is ridiculous, and 90% of it spawns from racers hating cruisers. At the end of the day, we are all enjoying the same game. Aren't you? If not, get a new 1 lol
Regards,
Amsterdeen