SimBin gone bankrupt?
http://www.srvn.nl/nieuws/737/43
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Posted Jul 28, 2014, 8:00 PM UTC
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I still love the people at Simbin because they're very talented, but it was obvious that the new management was going to destroy them with their shitty business decisions. If Simbin were in charge, we'd have a GTR3 with physics better than Raceroom and no online-only bullshit.
I'm glad I didn't spend more on that online-only shit, because who knows when it will go offline.
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I think the 'talent' that people associate with SimBin was mostly in the core team that split off after GTR2.
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And where did they go?
Edit: From virtualr "Bell and most of the core team split to form Blimey Games and, a few years later, Slightly Mad Studios"
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Looks like the core team wasn't that great after all.
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Yet the Race series and what is becoming now of RR is much more interesting to me than the sloppy garbage SMS makes. Blimey made the M3 game, which was great, but since then it's been terrible handling after terrible handling, and now I hear and see that pCars still has terrible FFB and floaty physics.
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I think SMS were hamstrung by EA's demands to make a more 'accessible' game. I don't own pCars yet but reports are the physics have taken a giant leap forward with some of the cars.
The Race series were really nothing more than a gutted SimBin flogging a dead horse over and over again. Its easy to give it a pass for the $3 it often goes for nowadays, but they were generally difficult to justify at full retail price back in the day.
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I bought several packs and never felt cheated. It's easy to blame EA, but I still see the same basics now, even though it's improved. They make light cars that flop around, it's hard to hide.
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You couldn't name one person on the dev team so quit talking out your ass. Feels3 is one talented track builder. I don't expect you to know who he is either.
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Everybody knows who he is, but he's a new guy.
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where were you when simbin was die?
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honestly SimBin was dead to me post-GTR2 when almost all the core personnel left.
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Simbin was dead to me with GTR2 and everything after that. I enjoyed GTR so much more, GTR2 felt arcadey in comparison.
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I still do laps on Nordschleife in Race 07. The physics just seem so good even compared to modern sims. RRRE was very "Meh".
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I have seen key members of staff seeking jobs else where. On LinkedIn.
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If they want to relocate to the UK, I'm sure SMS would accept their long-lost brothers from SimBin to help them finish Project CARS.
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Here's another article, it's more succinct than virtualr's and has approval from Jay Ekkel. It also says all of simbins games will continue as normal. Judging by what I've heard from people in simbins circles, it's more of a restructuring, and from a legal standpoint it's easier to declare bankruptcy and start again. It appears most of the redundancies are in marketing also.
http://www.racedepartment.com/threads/simbin-dont-worry-about-bankruptcy-rumours.90667/
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Probably the only way they could get away from KW and salvage the little credibility they still had. It's just too bad they were hurt so badly in the process and wasted a lot of time.
Reminds me of all the studios that EA destroyed over the years.
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Let's hope they keep the lobby servers up and running.
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Yeah, now their model is going to be an even tougher sell. I might buy GT Masters and WTCC offline, but probably not on a server.
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The link to VirtualR's post (linked by u/FolkSong) includes this quote from Jay Ekkel:
The actual story in short is this:
"New studio, new location, new name, (almost) the same team. Be ensured that all development on the project will continue.
More interesting news to follow soon!"
yeah, they're hosed. time to pour one out.
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Hey there was an update on this.
According to virtualr: http://www.virtualr.net/simbin-studios-to-shut-down
Update: Simbin’s Jay Ekkel has shared some additional info right here on VirtualR:
The actual story in short is this:
“New studio, new location, new name, (almost) the same team. Be ensured that all development on the project will continue.
More interesting news to follow soon!”
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is this because we didn't buy all of the DLC in RRRE?
its because I never bought any of it
That game would have been great if they didn't nickle and dime at every step of the way.
I'd prefer to just pay $50 up front and have a full game rather than spending 10 minutes navigating the menu trying to actually get into a race without being asked to buy something.
I hate 'Free to Play' games. And if the success of Assetto Corsa vs RRE is anything to go by, I'm not the only one.
Don't get your hopes up. AC have announced DLC packs and the game hasn't even been released yet.
There's a difference between DLC and "Every single car and track needs to be purchase individually", although it is a little disappointing they'll have day1 DLC - something I'm generally very much against.