Assetto Corsa: Pre-Orders Delayed

[Bram Hengeveld]

Bram Hengeveld submitted a new blog post:

Assetto Corsa: Pre-Orders Delayed

Sad news for those of you that are (im)patiently awaiting the arrival of Assetto Corsa as Kunos just announced on Facebook that pre-orders are on hold due to typical bureaucracy reasons that are nowadays very common in the EU/EUSSR.

Unfortunately in Italy where Kunos Simulazioni is based things aren't any different than to the rest of Europe where honest hardworking small companies get buried under a massive pile of legislation.

Time to make some clarification about the rumors...

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[Element515]

I think the sim racing community created most of the hype. Not Kunos themselves.

Which they need for us to do. They are spending all their money on building the game. It's up to word of mouth to promote this. And Steam of course will help after release.

 

[Kevin Cordice]

Damn you! bureaucracy

 

[LazyBug]

Take your time AC i totally ok with that since i already pre-order GSC 2013, Q1 or even Q2 of 2014 is fine to me.

 

[Travis]

I'm more than happy to wait for Assetto Corsa; I just wish I could give them my pre-order money now so it helps with development costs and/or obtaining vehicle licences.

Even more about the Situation from Aris on Facebook:

Particularly unhappy with it, as I had pre-order website, e-commerce pages and everything else ready to go, just to find out at 1 o'clock in the night about that little "font 6px" things that would have severely hurt our business and the AC project.

Back to the drawing board and I guess we need to do something special for all you people patiently waiting

 

[MarcG]

hmm that doesn't sound good regarding a quick fix, looks to me like the whole pre order needs to be revamped totally....that's gonna take some time.

 

[Element515]

hmm that doesn't sound good regarding a quick fix, looks to me like the whole pre order needs to be revamped totally....that's gonna take some time.

He may just be saying they need to rework how they want to go through with the preorder. That's what this law seems to be affecting. Keep your hopes up!... Been watching too many youtube videos of Rome Total War... My first thought is, general inspire your troops!...

 

[Paul McCluskey]

a demo with couple cars n a couple of tracks sure would go down nicely

 

[DennS]

Even more about the Situation from Aris on Facebook:

hmm that doesn't sound good regarding a quick fix, looks to me like the whole pre order needs to be revamped totally....that's gonna take some time.

to me it sounds like it is good that they noticed before it was to late

 

[Jari Vinnari]

Keep your hopes up!

I have keeping my hopes up for so long but sadly reality and real life have kicked me between my legs.
Reality bites so its better to live in dream world.

 

[Deleted member 151827]

Something special for the people patiently waiting..... Hmmmm....Wonder what he is speaking of?

 

[f1superracer]

Because you'll get first DLC for free.

Apart from that! and I guess you'll get it a the wonderful discount price like steam does with all of their pre-orders.

 

[David Bertholom]

Hello,
I do not understand where the problem is. If they can not do pre-order, why do not they leave the game? They can use the commercial structure of steam. I know that my reasoning may seem simplistic, but ... I do not see why it should take their pencils ... By reading the post Aris was the mpression the game has taken a severe blow. So in the end, it seems that this is only the pre-order off steam that was the problem!

 

[Truand2laBiffle]

the Game is not ready, the pre order was.

 

[Element515]

We don't know the state of the actual game yet. It may or may not be pushed back. We'll find out soon.

 

[David Bertholom]

They said they will announce the release date with the preorder. Also, they should know the date. Why the preorder problem seems to be so critical ? They just have to announce the date and to sell the game at this date with steam without the preorder... But from this point of view, it does not much change from the originally planned preorder.
Of course, I think the difference is commercial, because they have to live to finsh the game, and the preorder was maybe a solution for this...

 

[Deleted member 151827]

Just a reminder of what we are waiting for! Well worth the wait! Doesn't get much better than a Ferrari Italia drifting around a larger sweeping turn!

 

[Jan-Olov Johansson]

Just a reminder of what we are waiting for! Well worth the wait! Doesn't get much better than a Ferrari Italia drifting around a larger sweeping turn!

Nice, I had not seen that video before.
This gives me hope that we finally will get a game that actually have realistic handling, none of the current games really come close to having the physics for handling a car correctly, especially when on or close to the limit.

 

[Tobbe Bergman]

He who waits for something awesome NEVER waits too long !

 

[Tobbe Bergman]

He who waits for something awesome NEVER waits too long !

 

[Ben Lee]

I'm sure AC will be awesome, I don't mind waiting a bit longer. However it would be nice if we could find out about the mod-ability of the final game files and what will be locked down.