Well, these are my thoughts on Scawen's post. In no particular order:

Glad - to finally hear something from the dev team.
Reassured - that they still see a 'long term future' for LFS.
Appreciative - of Scawens technical document about tyres.
Disappointed - that there is still no specific news about new content. I can understand that it's hard to be specific with 'news' when experimenting with tyre physics, but it shuld be possible (and desirable) to show off progress on upcoming content and graphical updates.

Merry Christmas to all - really looking forward to the new LFS!

Quote from Tomrius :

Hi All LFS Players

And hello to you sir!

Sad news.
He contributed to Australian motorsport both as a driver and a team owner, so I'll remermber him.

R.I.P.

Quote from The Moose :

New look at the upcoming "Classic GT" car. Confirmed for release before Christmas

That's a game seller for me right there. Will fill the LFS waiting void quite nicely. Thanks for posting.

LFS needs a class like this.
One day.... one day.

Quote from cardriverx :

every few weeks I check on the forum, every few weeks its the same crap.

For god's sake, give us SOMETHING!!

Yep... that'll help.

Quote from shiny_red_cobra :

Actually in all of North America it's "tire". I've never seen the word "tyre" before I joined this forum. In fact, Firefox reports it as a spelling mistake, it's underlined as I'm typing this.

People who spell that way should be thrown in gaol.
You know, that big gray colored center for prisoners.

Quote from brataccas :

lol "tire"

me personally Im not bothered about new scirocco or TYRES but the new track

lol "track"
I'd love to see come new TRAKKS too, but the new physics is what I'm really hanging out for.

Quote from manneF1 :

That´s gotta be cause of global warming

No, but it might be a symptom of climate change.

Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but would Scawen's post count indicate that he's been posting in a hidden forum somewhere (OMG Test Patch !?!!?1?11??), or at least doing stuff on the forums that we don't know about?

Seinfeld is back for his semi-regular trolling session...
Nothing more to see here.

Quote from aaltomar :

LFS starts to remind each passing day more and more like the West brothers Racing Legends vaporware.

You may have some valid points in your post, but not this one. How can you say that LFS is 'more like' a project that was abandoned before a single public release?

Quote from K.David :

Anyway, I have a theory. The premise is that Scavier had to sign a contract to get the Scirocco and Rockingham, which would mean that they'd be liable to pay whatever sum for a breach of contract if they completely stopped working on LFS and never released the above things, right? Don't get me wrong, I don't want the devs to face legal consequences, I'm just implying that maybe this can be understood as a guarantee that we will see progress? Because right now the most important question for me is not when they'll update the game but if they ever will.

All the deals Scavier have done have been non-financial, but mutually benificial for both parties.

I doubt there would be any binding contracts with development deadlines. Deadlines just aren't Scavier's style.
The only guarentee we have that there will be progress is Scawen's word.

Stupid, ridiculous, and funny. I have 2 questions:
What was the DPI?
Who prints things in this day and age anyway?

Here's footage of the huge crash on lap 1.
Will probably be removed soon, so be quick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4mVqcRYFto

The accident was caused by a LR blowout which was caused by light contact off the start line.

I watched some of the coverage today. A support race and qualifying.
I must say, the circuit looks beautiful. The countryside is lush and green, and the track looks to be in fantastic condition.

Greg Murphy's 'Lap Of The Gods' was bettered in practice by Craig Lowndes (finally)

Should be a great race as usual.

I'm also looking forward to the Masters historic support race. Charger for the win!

Quote from Heikkiw :

I really hope S3 physics will assrape us all when it comes.

I also hope I'm assraped by the new physics.

Something I thought I'd never say....

Awesome.
Thanks for sharing.

BBQ transport 'there I fixed it' style.

"What the f**k was that?" - Mayor of Hiroshima, 1945.

Quote from [RCG]Boosted :

it is...what else?
if ud have a timelimit that has expired and u want to play...u are forced to buy it.

To keep playing, purchasing the game would be required under the OP's suggestion, but nobody is forced to do anything. There's a big difference.

I like the idea of limiting the demo. I'd do it by limiting the number of laps you're allowed to race online to say 100. After that you could continue to play demo combos offline, or choose to buy a license.

That's how I'd do it, but I'm obviously not as generous as the devs are.

Quote from obzelite :

lfs current development, its coders contempt for its fanbase, all bear the same hallmarks of west-racing.

LFS's development has bugger all parallels with the failed development of Racing Legends. I mean, to my knowledge, there wasn't even a single public release for Racing Legends.
Your attempted comparison is a load of rubbish.

Quote from Macfox :

Sometimes things are better left unsaid. Personal attacks aren't welcome here, regardless if you don't agree with some ones opinion or how they express their views. They're a disservice to the community.

One look at his post history will show that he's nothing more than a troll who sticks his head in every now and then to 'personally attack' the devs because he doesn't like the game. He's not part of the community, and I stand by my description of him.

seinfeld is just a dickhead who has little interest in LFS other than to troll the forums every now and then.

Next please!

Quote from Macfox :

Never said they've abandoned development? My point has been about community engagement.

Who's mixing who's words? Go back and read the previous posts.
Here, I'll summarise for you:

• obzelite suggested that LFS was no longer being worked on: "bwahaha, i love the assumption that work is actually being done."
  

• I responded that I think "it's very obvious that work is actually being done (just, slowly)"
  

• Your post, quoting me and countering: "The only thing obvious is the claim progress is being made. There's no substance to back that up..."
  

Now you're saying that we weren't talking about work being or not being done, but actually we're arguing about community engagement?

Ke?

Quote :

How exactly does one produce evidence of nothing?

Evidence is a basic requirement to back up one's argument. If you were arguing that no work was being done on the game (something that you now deny), then you would need evidence of this alleged inactivity. Anyway, you might want to read more on the concept of evidence to save further embarrassment.

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Ever worked in sales?

Have you ever had a reputation to keep? Scawen has one. In case you hadn't noticed, he's not a great salesman.

Quote from Macfox :

You're entitled to believe in what you want including father Christmas, tooth fairies and the bunny rabbit, but the rest of us know better.

If we're going to those extremes then I'd assume you believe that the moon landings were a hoax, the CIA started the AIDS epidemic, and that Paul McCartney died in 1969. But I digress.

This argument is all about character.

You believe that Scawen has abandoned development, despite him repeatedly (and recently) saying the opposite. For some reason you need to see a video or a picture as 'evidence' of continuing development. It's hypocritical for you throw around accusations based on 'lack of evidence' when you have absolutely no evidence of your own.

I don't believe he is lying. Why?
He's never lied to the community before. I have no reason to belive he's anything but an honest bloke, and it's totally against his interest to lie about such things.