I and others have no interest in what was discussed, and you can rest assured that Mike would never disclose such private information to anyone.
I think you are taking it all to far as usual.. Why limit yourself to such a silly comment like "I will not return"?
In my opinion your english is pretty good, however presented wrongly and often gives a negative impression. It makes it seem like you have an attitude problem. I still feel it to this day, not just since your team days.. Which inevitably was the cause of annoyance for many im sure.
Anyway I pretty much said all I wanted to say previously, however, I think you should reconsider such a bold statement as "I will not return"! That wasn't the intention of my or any others posts.. You are just taking it further than required.
LoL - It's not my thing either! I prefer the good, old, standard G25 config!
Unlike some, I can live with 2 buttons on the front :P hehe
I'm not gonna pretend I know Vincent really well, as obviously, I only know him from what I've seen on LFS and the forums, however, from everything I've seen of Vinny previously (and now), you can rest assured that he certainly does act like a spoiled kid!
It probably isn't required, wanted or relevant, but maybe you should know some background information:
He used to be in the team I'm currently part of (approx 6 months ago, if that) and throughout his presence in it, caused complete anarchy in the team due to his obnoxiously childish and incompetent behaviour toward just about everyone! He VERY quickly became an unbearable annoyance in the server and it was evident that the rest of the team disliked him completely (maybe something to do with money cheating on our server within days of becoming a trial applicant!? However, unlike the usual permaban that would be imposed, we (somehow) allowed him to stay in the team due to the fact we were trying to understand this simple, yet complexly childlike mind).
Although a few of us (including myself, several times) attempted to make him realise that his attitude was the cause of mass revolt in the team, he threw our advice back in our face and ceased to embrace change of any kind. We couldn't have asked our team to be any more patient in trying to accept Vinny's problems/attitude-conflict (thanks team ), however, with mounting constant problems with him, and questions of "why is he still here!?" and statements like "he is an embarrassment to the team", we had to make a choice in removing him!
Remarkably (and kinda understandably), in a bizaarr twist of textual exchange, he was allowed to remain in our team after threatening harm toward himself if we removed him from it.
Eventually (week or 3 later)... He grew up (not much mind!)! Obviously realising that he'd acted like a fool the whole time and that he was a complete disgrace to himself and our team, he swiftly moved on! Now, he only comes back very rarely to act even more childish than when he was in the team and attempts to cause arguments/conflict (Mostly with me.. Even though I attempted to help him more than most!). Typically childlike! We were just glad to be rid of him from our server, team member or not!
So yes, after experience with all that (which was only a breif summary :P) I think we can safely say that we are dealing with a stubborn, impatient, hormonal child, rather than someone just aggitated about a few euro's..
I agree with Dadge to the fullest.. I can imagine the manufacturer of this wheel getting harrassed by email after email of poorly communicated, arrogant/rude text and eventually, after realising Vinny was expecting the 'Mona Lisa' of wheel replica's for 100eu, decided to sell it to someone with more patience, appreciation and expectation of value for the item in question.
The fact that an email from the manufacturer has been aired in public is really silly also.. Regardless of what stage your purchase was at, this shows complete disrespect regarding general business formality.
Which, speaking of, where is the purchase order or contract for the work you were requesting Vinny?? If this guy is how I imagine.. Someone who builds these wheel replica's in his free time and as a hobby.. I don't know what you expected for 100euro, especially in a minimal number of months work??
If you ask me, the wheel is better being sold to someone else who can fully appreciate it and has the patience to wait for it! Plus, with all this cash Vincent allegedly has, I'm sure he won't have a problem finding someone else willing to create his wetdream in more professional and controlled terms.
Anyway, you should learn from this Vinny...
In my personal opinion and experience though, you probably wont!
With incorporation of the cruise filter, that was acknowledgement by the devs that racing isn't LFS' sole purpose. Agreed, that racing will always be the main priority with LFS, however, the cruise factor has been acknowledged and responded to by the devs.
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