Talk:The Daytona 500/@comment-26845160-20160216155245/@comment-26715739-20160216161355

It's a classic for the concept of "it's not the idea, it's the execution".

You can have a good idea, but if you implement that idea in a bad way you can end up with a worse situation than if you'd done nothing, or had implemented a not as good idea in a better way. "10 points for the idea, -100 for the way you did it".

The previous NASCAR release would have been alright if it hadn't been a case of 4 separate series with a ridiculous cost to get to 100%. They could have had 3 cars (one for each manufacturer) and lots of vinyls, and had the cars race each other in a single series.

Instead - probably to protect egos - there were 4 separate cars, 4 separate series, and upgrade costs of over 2500 gold.

Personally I also feel like they've been a bit disingenuous with how they've marketed it all. When the first NASCAR release came out it was "we want to be the one stop shop for all different types of racing and we've got big plans so stay tuned". But we haven't had another new "real world" comp in the interim - so it feels more like NASCAR is taking over the game.

Had they got the pitch a bit better, and made more of the LMP stuff (ie NASCAR is the next step rather than the start of a new direction), and made it clear this was _loooooong_ term thinking it would have been a lot more palatable. Instead they've got people excited to see Formula E and WRC and DTM and Formula 1 (which they fuel via facebook), and they keep disappointing.

To finish on another aphorism: they've "over-promised and under-delivered".