A real good read especially like the fact that you like LFS better than GTR2 and Iracing, I thought about Iracing but refuse to pay2play after driving LFS I find myself struggling to find any sim/game that is anywhere near as good IMO.
Zeug is right its your fault for being impatient and spending your "LFS money" elsewhere, and the business you speak of, would be damaged by releasing anything before its ready, you must realise that?
I wonder how many peop[le who bought Rfactor & a logitech FF wheel and no other driving games? I bet they think that forces IRL work the way they do "out of the box" in rfactor? most experianced simmers know that the FF is reversed and must be changed, but beginners don't, my point is that a tiny bug, indeed many are left in more expensive games like the ones you speak of and the product is shipped money made and development finishes, not so with LFS it may take a while but it should be proper good when its done
Optimistically I'd hope that the time from now to the release will be less than the time that has passed since the first announcement.
Seems like a boat well and truly missed though. When the Scirocco was first announced it was brand new, not on the road yet, when we got the cmx viewer it was still brand new and still not on sale everywhere. I felt like there was some kudos attached to that, I at least found it interesting that a game such as LFS could do that.
The majority of the people complaining about it taking ages and complaining about LFS being dead are the ones who've driven AS3/GTR for the past year and now find that boring so they don't play at all. Learn some other cars, play on some other tracks and appreciate what you have a lot more - because the way your going about things now means you'll just get bored of the scirocco within a week.
At the end of the day, who really cares if there's a new car coming - even though it really annoys me when people say this to me, but a lot of you need to get a life! Its not a big deal at all when you actually think about what your sat here complaining about... Its a waste of energy and a waste of the moderators / developers time when they have to sift through a test patch forum past all of the kiddy spam to find the bug report they are looking for to finally get it finished.