My Open Letter For ACC

100% agree... it´s the best simulator, i love this game, but i feel abandoned too... this simulator has the potential to become the best one of all if they just make it better... thank you for expressing what a lot of us feel (and can´t write in english).

 

Hear hear!

 

16) Fixed setups - Again, iracing has this, you can even upload some certain fix setup to everyone.
Even AC1 has it!
Would also be perfect for rookies. I can imagine lets say single Porsche GT3 series with one setup from certain driver upload for everyone with just tyre pressure and selection change and fuel = perfect.
Also would motive more people to drive single class series.


Thats something that i would not agree with, most of the people i race with are too lazy for setups, and everytime i race with them on other games like ac or ams2 they will always block the setups, gosh i hate that, its so unrealistic.

 

Agree the points. I just make this post reappear on the list to, hopefully, highlight on developers side.
I would say that I feel there is some arrogance and being detached from the player base is going on Kunos side. Even though you try to love this game more they definitely holding you back.

 

,... "are we there yet, are we there yet, are we there yet",...

 

I accidentally found this today:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ACCompetizione/comments/11molqa/hello_im_the_ac_community_manager/

 

I find it very odd that there’s an extensive ACC Q & A session on Reddit but nothing on here…

 

I wonder if Rwaggy (https://www.reddit.com/r/ACCompetizione/comments/11molqa/hello_im_the_ac_community_manager/) is really the Assetto Corsa Community Manager for 505Games.
In this capacity he asserts among other things:
"Roadmap is pending release. Once I've got permission I'll release it immediately. There is an update coming very soon which is the BIGGEST update ACC has ever had"
and
"I can't go into specific details on the stuff that hasn't yet been announced but I can say this game is definitely not dying anytime soon. THe content that has been confirmed is the three GT3 cars: Ferrari 296, Porsche 992 and Lamborghini Evo (2) and then of course the GT2 cars".

 

Maybe Kunos could confirm or deny if he is the community manager?

 

https://twitter.com/iRwaggy

 

From what you can see here, it would appear to be true, he is really the Assetto Corsa Community Manager for 505Games
https://www.youtube.com/@assettocorsaofficialmediac484
https://steamcommunity.com/app/805550?l=italian

 

So does mean that Kunos is NOT responsible for announcements/road maps ?

 

He is. It’s right there in the title of the Reddit thread you posted! Not quite sure why you’re questioning it?

 

Do you really think that everything you read on forums is true? The world, and especially the web, is full of braggarts. Anyone could have written that post, posing as another person.

 

Lol. Rather odd the lengths you’re going to disbelieve whether someone’s a community manager of a racing sim or not. We’re not talking about 9/11 or UFO’s here. It’s been widely known for a while that he is in fact the community manager. Again, I find it odd you’d even question it in the first place.

 

Wakes up!!! Anyone could have written on reddit posing as Rwaggy (who is not as famous as you say since others have also written here who don't know him).

 

Kunos Simulazioni is part of the Digital Bros and it's a large listed company. Kunos cannot release the road map just like that as they like - it must be approved by a various parties inside the Digital Bros, I guess.

It was discussed here, too: https://www.assettocorsa.net/forum/...eneric-discussion.67961/page-272#post-1224484

It looked like a spontaneous AMA, so it wasn't advertised anywhere like a big thing, I think.

 

If you are responding to my post, I have NEVER posted in a Reddit tread.

So once again, it sounds like announcements/road maps of this importance, is NOT the responsibility of Kunos staff, therefor, all of the wining children here, should apologize to Kunos staff, for their childish insulting etc.

 

I think people should keep in mind that the methods and tools with which people communicate and work change over time.
Back in the AC days there was much more going on in this forum, it was much more lively. Just look at the number of messages in this forum (just over 70000) and the number of messages in the AC Chit Chat (over 330000).
Sure, the comparison is a bit unfair, since there was posting in the Chit Chat also after ACC was released, but that's insignificant in comparison to what happened before.
Even back then, there were some team members that clearly preferred other ways of communication and rarely posted on the forums.
Maybe discussing things on the forums just isn't their thing anymore. Forums in general have become less relevant in the last decade.
Personally, I don't like that, because I really don't like stuff like TikTok, Twitter and Reddit, but I can't change it either.
btw, it always reminds me of this xkcd
https://xkcd.com/1782/

The other thing people should keep in mind is that the Kunos team has grown a bit over the years. That means that people and their roles change a bit and that can mean that previous ways of communication are now reduced or even abandoned, because again different people like different things. And the original members like Aris might have increased responsibilities and just don't find the time anymore to chat with us.

 

There's one "little" thing: if the forum is becoming "irrelevant" (both between quotes because it's not literally little nor (yet) irrelevant), perhaps Kunos/505 Games/Digital Bros/who is managing communications/players feedback/discussions could link in this forum the now preferred channels to be used instead for feedback/discuss/communicate about AC/ACC/(in future)AC2.

When searching for Assetto Corsa and navigating to the site there’s still a link to this forum (it's also linked in reddit).
I don't see facebook, twitter or reddit to be structured enough to act as a place of support/information.
Just check the Blog section in this forum and think of how that could be structured inside facebook, twitter or reddit. Those platforms are basically structured as a phone messages app, very different from a forum structure.

There's nothing wrong in using other platforms besides the forum I just don't see why leaving the forum behind or neglecting it as a way of communicating/informing/announcing is beneficial.