ACC is in early Access

Just a quick note to all: As a reminder, ACC is in Early Access. This means: As already noted, the game will be developed over the coming months with input from the community. The game will have issues and they will be worked on and corrected. Content and features will be added. Is it really necessary to have so many negative comments? Really? Be cool. Let this thing work out over the next few months and let it become a great sim. Many of us can clearly see it will be. Remember: EARLY ACCESS. You paid 1/2 price. Game will develop in the coming months. And...….Thank you.

 

First I was like, "Bro, everybody knows", but then I read through the forums and … it appears as if certain users did not understand the concept of EA at all. Or not even the concept of ACC.

 

Daily friendly reminder that the "A" in "EA" stands for "Access", not "*****les".

 

Was puzzled reading the title but then with your post - a well-positioned thread.

I'm sorry to be a broken record regarding my latest "reporting strategy" but here it goes again:

If you feel something isn't right but you can't back it up properly, just say "I feel this isn't right." and describe your impressions with words such as "I have the impression that the car shouldn't behave like this." or "I feel treated unfair by the sim because I can't correct this oversteer." or "I feel that the cars around me should have a higher engine sound level." and so on.

By using such a phrasing you won't be disrespectful towards anyone and noone can get offended because you simply state your personal impression. And don't think just because you don't post a YT vid or a Wikipedia page you won't be taken seriously. If the same personal impression is shared by many people, I'm sure the devs will take note!
We tell them our impressions, they do the expert stuff. That's at least my idea of a good EA cooperation.

If you think you know how to prove something is wrong, the backup should be really good: heavy expertise your end or reliable data sources. Cherry-picked YT videos or random sources with no backup in themselves are absolutely no proper foundation for a claim. Add to the list claims like "I talked to RL racing drivers blah blah...". It can't be proven - anybody can just lie and state that so those statements must be disregarded as "evidence". All of this leads to no good - please let it be on both sides. If "we" screw this up we lose the chance for a good discussion with the devs regarding ACC. They surely have psychological strategies to handle all of this but surely they'll want to participate much more in a friendly atmosphere.

Edit: @kevin.maatman, a wish to you: would it be within the moderation guidelines to speak out some more warnings and maybe 1 week "holiday" for some users. Even if it will hit me at some point (I'm an a**hole at times) I wouldn't mind. There's so many posts where you can see immediately that they'll cause trouble. Locking threads or writing general warnings in threads isn't effective IMO - it must be personal, sooner and appropriately harsh.

 

Your post, sir, should be a permanent sticky in this section.

 

Early Access is so users give feedback (aka complains) and the devs react to it; otherwise it would be just a demo.

So stop complaining about people complaining!

Complaining is fine, being an entitled passive aggressive a•••ole is wrong.

 

This is not about giving feedback in a constructive manner, it's about that "let's repeat this and that as often as possible and yell for the devs to grab their attention" attitude. Just, for an example, take a look into the thread about the curb sizes where people started to claim to be ignored just because nobody of the Kunos staff wrote a reply.

 

I don't understand, I want all the things now, why can't I have all the things now, this isn't fair!

 

Well not having a reply is the literal definition of being ignored. Kunos IMHO should go through each thread and leave an ACK as minimum, otherwise is rude to people that already paid for the game and are acting as free QA.

Of course that does not justify being not polite or plain toxic.

 

Just an idea :
The whole Kunos team is really busy at the moment. To moderate this forum has not highest priority.
Think most people will see it similar.
After 5 hours of no reacting you say:
This is a statement. They ignore us.
Hmmmm....
Could you see what i am pointing at?