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Welcome to NSR Watch

Finally a home for me and others to rant and rave about the two biggest pieces of shit in video game history none other then: ea sports ceo (Larry Probt), and ea game producer (James 'KY' Hawkins).
Look forward to many interesting articles as we document the past and future of these dickheads as they screw over the public with there so called "flawless sim to date"
Welcome and enjoy the ride (or roast).


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Wednesday, December 21, 2005 

Electronic Arts First Blockbuster For 2006 Announced!! (spoof)



Hype on this game is bigger then J-Lo's Ass! Pre-Order NOW EA is promising 20 patches after release!!


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Tuesday, December 20, 2005 

LARRY CHRISTMAS JAMES HAWKINS!!!



MERRY FUCKING CHRISTMAS!!!
if the above doesn't work.


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EA Sports Desperation To Break Even On Steamer Of The Year NSR Resorts To Bundling It With New PCs, Performance Problems Being Reported. Whos Suprised

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ZDM/story?id=1408934

A NASCAR fan may want to experience racing from a virtual cockpit: We were able to play the included EA Sports' NASCAR SimRacing demo (set to 800-by-600 and the low-detail default setting) at a playable frame rate. The NASCAR PC comes with a limited demo version of the game. When we installed our own full copy of NASCAR SimRacing, we found that you can have a good experience playing the game as long as you keep the graphics settings reasonably modest. When we turned on all the detail, such as lighting, shadowing, car detail (which makes the cars look more lifelike), terrain detail (which adds to the stuff surrounding the track—grandstands, spectators, and track advertisements), the system started to slow down and the game frames showed some jerkiness.

Pretty fucking sad, when the "NASCAR PC" can't even play the "most realistic sim to date" without jerkiness.

Will these "jerk offs" ever quit and admit defeat? I doubt it.

I wonder if this will be as successfull as the "citgo" demo / AOL partnership....as I'm sure their was over 100,000 NSR demos in my county alone and look how well they helped drive those monsterous sales up to 47,000. What a pile of shit.


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Monday, December 12, 2005 

Don't Forget To Vote!!! NSR A Shoe In For Flat Tire Award (Worst Sim Of The Year)

Bhmotorsports.com is giving out their annual awards. NSR is the leading canidate fore the "Flat Tire Award"

Be sure to vote and give NSR your full support as by awarding James "fucking" Hawkins and crew the coveted award for shittiest SIM!

http://www.bhmotorsports.com/awards/4/vote/11/388


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Wednesday, December 07, 2005 

LMAO NASCAR SimRacing Sold 47,000 Units in 2005, Shit Sales A Sure Sign Of Abandonment And Possibly James Hawkins Getting The Axe (We Pray)

http://www.bhmotorsports.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=34580



Now this is interesting it Appears NSR died quickly. I wonder how many of the 47,000 came first two weeks. The NSR Affect at it finest. Its safe to say after all the spoon fed bullshit EA fed the sim racing world they have abandonded this title. All that is left to do is make it official which I predict will happen somtime in the next few months. Pressure from Daytona 500 most likley will cause EA to make some "passing blame" sort of statement. Don't expect EA to actually admit they pushed out a "steamer" as to them honesty isn't the way the do business.

The Math

Units: 47,000

Dollar: $1,700,000

Price Per A Unit: $36.17

Development Staff: 14 programmers for 18 months if their salaries were $70,000 (which is a low estimate. Development cost alone ran around $1,470,00. I'm sure Hawkins takes nice lump sum "rehash" fee. (say $200,000 salary). That bumps it up to $1,670,000. Leaving a measly $30,000 to purchase the biased bullshit reviews on this hunk of shit? Yah right...it cost a lot more then that to get the horseshit "at a boys" their press page barfs out

Ironically, the top reviewer (Andy Mahood) is also the same guy who exposed them as a fraud (I can just hear hawkins now chewing out his ass for letting "the cat out of the bag"). Quit fooling yourself james that cat excaped long ago.

The casket has all but been closed on the fucking hunk of shit known as NASCAR SimRacing.

The only problem is EA still holds the "exclusive" and the console sales may not be as bad. We can only hope they too are dive bombing red marks on the profit reports and pray the don't reante in 2009.

As for NASCAR racing on the PC I'm afraid EA has officially torched it and has no intention or sympathy for any of the PC racers....they look at us like we look at NSR ...we are a corpse!


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Monday, December 05, 2005 

Brainwashed Idiot Beta-Testers Finally See The Light!

Ok folks the time has come for us to cut all ties with the NSR Production Team and Producer James Hawkins. I have spent 1 year on the beta team for NSR and still cant run a league with flags on. This is really sad and I will not take part in it anymore. As for patch status. Well the testers know as much as the community does. NOTHING. Testing has ceased for quite sometime now and I think the community will be lucky to see a patch by the next race season. Now keep in mind you may still find updates here in our forums about the status of NSR simply due to the fact that a few testers have not gotten wise and left the testing program. They may post updates in the forums once in a blue moon.
http://www.crazygameworld.com

Gee big surprise you fail to mention you spent a better part of the year flaming those who told the truth about NSR (which you finally are now) and the EA lies and propaganda you have spread. How about an apology to the entire community for being bunch of dolts?

What about your asskissing cahoot partner stringer who claims testing is "alive and wll", it seems that dumbfuck has been proven full of shit as well (like we didn't already know that)

Least CGW answered are challenge...they want NO part of NSR anymore. First wise thing that I ever heard from their site.


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Friday, December 02, 2005 

EA Sports Wants To Know How Shitty Their Games Are, SO TELL THEM!!!

http://www.surveyz.com/TakeSurvey?id=37025

EA Sports is asking "can we improve" our game. Tell them how big of piece of shit NASCAR SimRacing is and make sure to mention the key players and issues

James Hawkins - Producer
NASCAR Thunder 2004 rehashed
False Advertising
Non-existant support
and vent heavly on every problem you ever had.

Great oppertunity to give EA piece of your mind...or even get James hawkins FIRED! (which he deserves)

Be sure to use a spam address as this may be just another EA scam to collect email addresses.

SHOW NO MERCY


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Thursday, December 01, 2005 

EB Games Purchasers Thrilled To Own NSR


More contradiction between actual end-user experiences vs. EA "on the box" and pre-release marketing hype. NSRWatch wants to share what NSR actually delivered against what was promised since the "supporters" who used to chime in here have been given the "gag order" by their higher ups or have nothing more to enlighten us with regarding the potential consumer restitution and NSR fix that obviously ain't coming!

Greggy D.: 10/19/2005
PICK "NEEDLES IN EYES" VERSUS "NASCAR SIMRACING"
This so called "sim" is just plain terrible. EA lied about patching this game a second time in the Spring. A second patch was promised in April and still has not come out yet (it's almost November). The first patch basically fixed NOTHING. If you try and race offline, the flag bugs will bite you in the rear and you will NOT be able to finish a race without incident. Don't waste your time or money.

The EA hype machine sold a lot of copies back in February, but I will not fall for it again.

Kevin R: 10/6/2005
WHAT A JOKE!!! BRING BACK PAPY!!
First off the last reviewer Ryan doesnt have the slighest idea what a sim racer is if he said Nascar 2003 is easy. That was and still is "the best racing sim" ever. Period. If you want to argue that point you are an stupid. This game EA made is horrible. I feel that this was some sort of joke they played on us with there title, SimRacing. Far from it, this games falls short just as all EA's past racing titles. I really do wish they had a winner so I could retire my good 4 year old racing game.

7/13/2005
HORRIBLE!!!!
One of the worst racing games I have ever played....NASCAR 2003 Papyrus is by far the best NASCAR game ever made....Its too bad EA bought the rights to create NASCAR games, I really doubt EA will ever make any NASCAR game that can compete with NR2003....EA SUKS!!!

Steve Mccleary: 5/25/2005
ITS JUST LIKE THE REAL THING!!
Just like the real NASCAR. It sucks!! It doesn't even come close to Seirra/Paprus. What would you expect from the same who owns the rights to NFL And this also. Their ps2 games are just like the arcades that you put money in. Somebody please come up with something that is realistic. I don't care if its go karts. Untill then keep your old Seirra/Paprus

I MOURN PAPYRUS
Papyrus racing sims were the most realistic racing simulations money could buy (within reason). Sweet graphics, detailed and intense gameplay. But this...Is not Papyrus. Graphics will slow down your computer like a congressional fillibuster. Sigh... please get someone who is actually serious about making the most realistic racing sim ever into the drivers seat of the next racing sim.

Derek Queen: 3/25/2005
WORST SIM OUT YET
Wow..Never have a played a sim that sux this bad...Grahpics, horrible, game play and realism...not even close. Sounds arent right. The way u setup ur car is acward. And the false pictures and information. To play multiplayer u need the patch. AKA Never going to come out. Releasing unfinished games. I mean so much work yet such a piece. Really guys,Did u expect any better from EA. Cause i know i didnt. What i think that EA should have done is teamed up with the people who made the other Sim, Like Brain Ring, People form Papy and Sierra, then maybe it would be better. Ryan Newman Claims best Sim..Shoot Not even close.

 3/19/2005
UNFINISHED AND NO PATCH
We have got to stop supporting these companies that release unfinished products! Bugs i can understand but this is ridiculous! You can`t even play the "sim" with flags turned on, the damage effects are just small dents because any more than that and you are instantly out of the race! Read the box because there is no support for dialup, and its been out for over a month and no patch when there are very obvious problems, looks like they want to be super heros and try to fix everything with one patch, the "sim" is garbage another couple of years and some new programers might make it alright. I suggest you go to ea sports forums to find out about all the bugs too many to list here, oh and of course there forums work about as well as their "sim", just make sure you have lots of time!!!!

3/17/2005
A COMPLETE JOKE !!
What a complete joke. Papy reins again.
This game was released not even finished. This is the joke of the year.
What game publisher releases a game still in a beta form. this thing has so many flaws
it's utterly unacceptable in the world of gaming today as we know it.

Thought this time maybe EA had something. they have something alright. It needs to be scooped up
from the lawn and disposed of.

the graphics are horrible as well. Jaggies the likes I haven't seen since Quake 2 days....

EA YOU BLEW IT !!!!

Ron Willmott: 3/16/2005
INCOMPLETE!
This game was released in an incomplete state.
EA needs to release a patch to make this game playable.

WHERE'S THE PATCH EA?

3/5/2005
CAN EA GET ANYTHING RIGHT?
I played the demo and it is mediocre in the fullest sense of the word - there is absolutely NOTHING INSPIRING about this game, nor about anything that EA publishes.

Graphics, sounds, physics - they're all just BLAH! It's as if EA simply tweaks a few things and spends 95% of their entire budget for each and every game on TV commercials and a new shiney box (so they can charge $50 instead of the $10 that this "expansion pack" warrants).

If you guys want the best racing game to come along since Gran Prix Legends, I would seriously suggest Simbin's GTR-FIA - download the demo - will be released in the US mid-March and is the best racing sim yet - it definitely makes Simracing seem like an Atari 2600 game.

BOYCOTT EA - Monopolies are a bad thing - higher prices, abismal effort, and fewer choices are what us as consumers are going to be stuck with if EA continues it's current course.

2/25/2005
WHAT A JOKE
This is the worst driving game I have ever played, except for the Thunder games. EA's "new and improved" game engine is over 2 years old, how is that new. DO NOT waste your money on this if you plan on buying a SIM, NR2003 is ages old but it's a million times better. This game is so bad I took it back to the store the next day to get my money back.
EA might get the SIM part right in a couple years.

2/21/2005
IT'S NOT
EA's "big" attempt at NASCAR falls short. This "game" is barely up to par with Papy's Nascar Racing 3 which was released when? 1999? Today is 2005. For the arcade and load up and go users, this game is for you, but for the hardcore sim community GO BACK TO NASCAR RACING SEASON 2003 and keep it updated with project wildfire mods or whatever you use. NR2003 should be THE benchmark for any future NASCAR sims.

EA's Simracing shows potential in all areas but just doesnt have the zing like Papyrus' sims.

2/17/2005
DISGUSTING
THis is by far the worst sim racing game ive seen yet, dont even get me started on the engine sounds, and the Starting line up Video was even worse, I dont know how EA gets away with making this crap and it makes me wonder how much Papyrus actually put into it, obviously not much. For now ill stick to XBOX's Chase for the cup 05 its way better, i still cant be leave how bad this looks.it looks like they spent all there time on the graphics which still arent that great.

I say waste your money on something else

Moezilla .: 2/18/2005
NASCAR RVOLUTION W/UPDATES SKINS
I see EA has done what it had to do to stifle the competition. No, I don't mean put out a superior product since they have yet to do that with ANY of their NASCAR titles but now that they have sole licensing (same ploy they pulled to try to knock out ESPN's NFL franchise, afraid ESPN with a more aggressive price point and a QUALITY product would force them to do more than update the same game every year) for NASCAR and Papy isn't around anymore, they still cannot put out a decent NASCAR sim. Now they're calling this "NASCAR sim racing", coupling the words sim racing with EA Sports is a huge misnomer as they haven't a clue what a sim should be.

Played the demo, it's a joke. Will not drop money on this game as I've never dropped a dime on an EA racing game since they burned us with NR and their lying BS on the old NR BB.

You want real racing, update NASCAR 2003 by Papy every year. In 10 years it'll still be light years ahead of any EA offering.

Mike T: 2/18/2005
ARCADE CITY...
This was very poor attempt by EA Games to put out a NASCAR game that wasn't an arcade game. This is just Thunder in a new box. Never have I played a NASCAR game at Daytona that wasn't fun...that is until now. It's ridiculous that in a "Sim" NASCAR game you can hit an opposing driver right in the corner of their rear bumper, and they hardly even get loose, let alone spin. Besides the awful gameplay, it's appalling to think that EA Sports, the God of sports video games in the world, can't even update their cars when their game comes out. Several of this years NASCAR's Nextel Cup racers aren't even in the game. I try to have an open mind about any new NASCAR game that comes, but this was a tremendous disappointment. It's pathetic that NASCAR Racing 2003, even without any modding, still blows "Sim"Racing out of the water. Don't waste your hard earned $40.00, like I did, on this sad attempt by EA, just buy a copy of NASCAR Racing 2003 for a fraction of the cost. (NSRWatch correction....since time of this reviewer's post, Papy's NR2003 cost has skyrocketed...thanks again EA)



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