Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-33721000-20190714064920/@comment-30967537-20190716060920

Maybe it’s an iOS/iPad issue or maybe they’re not robust enough. I don’t really believe this as other racing games have continued to work fine.

I had the throttle-fail (at the start of a race) issue years ago on my iPad 3, mostly at Le Mans, and wasn’t the only player who experienced this as I remember reading about it on Facebook and the EA Answers website ... I also posted in the pointless hope that if enough players mentioned the issue they’d do something about it.

Starting 2-3 years back it seemed to get worse and start happening at more events and also affect the brake and start to happen during an event i.e. it worked fine and then subsequently failed mid-event!

I have since switched to an iPad Air 2 and now an iPad Pro and it has continued to happen, in fact the switch from the Air 2 to the Pro was partially prompted by the steering issues and my thinkng that it might be a faulty device, obviously it was not or maybe they both suffered from the same fault!

Many other players, on different devices (and even operating systems), have reported similar problems, do we all have faulty devices or is it more likely that the common denominator RR3 is the problem?

Do you remember a couple years back when they blamed a steering issue on iOS? The odd thing is that other racing games (e.g. Grid) didn’t suffer from the same problem! Possibly they’re not using standard supported methods of retrieving accelerometer inputs, maybe (they feel) their method is more accurate ... but it is also less reliable. I have no idea because, as usual, yep you guessed it, I never received a response to my many posts on social media.

Just receiving a simple response along the lines of “thank you for your feedback, we are aware of the issue and looking into it” would have meant so much but clearly they feel that this is beneath them which, as I wrote above, begs the question ... why create several methods of interfacing with your customers (EA Answers website, Facebook, Reddit, etc) if you’re not going to respond to their feedback and questions!?!