For me the problem is not that F12011 is not a sim (it is not, but close enough in many aspects).
The problem is neither missing features, for example telemetry would be nice, but it is not there, ok, maybe that is too sim for general public, fine. Brake bias, probably most part of the people would not know how to tune it during the race (I for one), so it is not there, totally understandable. Detailed damage model, IMHO given the fragility of a F1 car what is in the game is enough. A slider changing the damage sensitivity (what pc mods do), would have been trivial to include instead of the way too rough none-cosmetic-full choice.
The problem are not some bugs, like the 11/11 bug, that one for example I understand it can happen. Full new handling, written probably from scratch, and the downside of extreme stiffness slips through and never appears, OK, so we wait for the patch.
The problem is the features that ARE there, but partially, or wrong, and mostly prove a complete carelessness from CM.
- Such as the pathetic replays, surely it is not that hard to include some more cameras (which are simply xyz, angle and focal values in a file).
- The AI is there, yeah, but you just need to drive your first race in melbourne to notice that you can overtake cars in chunks of 5 at every slow corner. Is it that hard to make that right? I cannot be that hard (especially for a developer of the game) when can be enormously improved just by fiddling with numbers in a file as rowingace, falcon and jace (sorry if i write usernames wrong) have done, in a few weeks and with limited knowledge of the innards of the game. A slider of difficulty here would also not hurt at all.
- The race director is there too, but why does it disappear at the end of the race? I want to see what happened! Is that really "too much sim"??
- Game saves are also there... but I think I don't really need to comment on that, do I?
The game saving problem _alone_, for the second year in a row! is trademark enough for the sloppiness of CM. Or maybe having reliable saves is "too much sim"... is it?