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Driving range and other things

• SweetiePie91 269 Posts

  Thu, May 3 2012 4:25 AM

  WGT, all members want it so just give us a freaking driving range!! Not hard to program/take pictures of. Not much time needed to do it. You are just lazy and greedy. A bit like Scrooge McDuck you sit on all your money laughing and giving us shitty things like putter pal, drinks, bars and other cheap stuff you can come up with.

  Time to listen to the members of this site, especially us who pay or do other efforts to get equipment, and give us what we want and not some other stinking stuff YOU come up with.

  You (WGT) must be the worst company in listening to its customers. How can you possible say no when I'm sure ALL here would like for example a driving range? I Really don't get how you think and would be happy if you could explain it in a good way so me and everyone else understand. 

  If you just explain I'm sure the forums would be less crowded with all these threads about driving range/putting green/chipping green etc etc..

  WgtIcon, me and most members demand a good answer and not just one sentence where you don't really say anything. Please!

  No offense :)

  Sincerely 

  SP

• ljbast 943 Posts

  Thu, May 3 2012 5:27 AM

  SweetiePie91:

  WGT, all members want it so just give us a freaking driving range!

     I wouldn't really say all members, I wouldn't even say most members want it

   

• WGTicon 12,511 Posts

  Thu, May 3 2012 9:00 AM

  SweetiePie91:

   

  WGT, all members want it so just give us a freaking driving range!! Not hard to program/take pictures of. Not much time needed to do it. You are just lazy and greedy. A bit like Scrooge McDuck you sit on all your money laughing and giving us shitty things like putter pal, drinks, bars and other cheap stuff you can come up with.

  Time to listen to the members of this site, especially us who pay or do other efforts to get equipment, and give us what we want and not some other stinking stuff YOU come up with.

  You (WGT) must be the worst company in listening to its customers. How can you possible say no when I'm sure ALL here would like for example a driving range? I Really don't get how you think and would be happy if you could explain it in a good way so me and everyone else understand. 

  If you just explain I'm sure the forums would be less crowded with all these threads about driving range/putting green/chipping green etc etc..

  WgtIcon, me and most members demand a good answer and not just one sentence where you don't really say anything. Please!

  No offense :)

  Sincerely 

  SP

   

   

  Hi

  While I respect your opinion, I disagree.

  First of all, we are just releasing a brand new 18 hole stroke play course, which took 6month to complete with dozens of people putting in hundreds of hours.

   

  Secondly of all, I do not believe driving range will benefit as much as you think. It would have  worked well with 1-2 courses where driving was very similar, but it will not work with all the courses we have since each hole has unique challenges, so adding additional holes of driving range, would not help anyone.

  If anyone would like to practice, please setup a practice game on a course and drive away. I know I have done so on several courses when I was looking for specific aim points in specific winds in order to improve my driving angles/distance to the hole.

  If you could explain it to me the specific need or benefit for the driving range that practice holes do not provide, maybe it will help me understand.

  -wgticon

• Maboonkrang 7 Posts

  Thu, May 3 2012 10:17 AM

  Time invested in a driving range, practice green, power up bars, etc. are all wasted IMO because they are not improving the core game experience.

  The core game experience is a round of golf. I'd like WGT to continue to invest in optimizing the game experience, which includes cleaning up the bugs, adding courses, and improving the competition & sportsmanship elements of the experience.

   

• DoctorEagle 1,312 Posts

  Thu, May 3 2012 3:34 PM

  Putting & chipping greens would make more sense but you can do that on the course to some extent.

• Lobsterboy 4,729 Posts

  Thu, May 3 2012 3:39 PM

  WGTicon:

  Second of all

  Secondly

  WGTicon:

  If you could make explain to me

  uummm

   

• blazh 1 Posts

  Sat, Jun 23 2012 5:13 AM

  Then I'll try to explain why we'd love to have something like driving range with putting green, pitching green and bunkers included:

  1. On the course (practice round) you can't make 50 drives in a row, where you could test how ballflight is affected by trying to draw or fade it or combine those with back or forward spin;

  2. Same as above goes with sand saves and rough saves - I allways try those positions on range. I know that playing conditions are not the same on different courses but the system of play is somehow the same;

  3. There's one more thing which I consider complete bul****t in this game which is supposed to be "most realistic golf game ever" - when I buy new clubs in real life I allways have the chance to try them before actually buying them. And I don't have to pay for such rental. Why there's no way to get those expensive clubs for 3 or 6 or maybe even 9 holes (practice round of course) to get the impression if they're what you need and expect?

  Both points 1 and 2 can be achieved by creating driving range on one single hole which is allready used in the game.

  One more thing for those "smart" gamers who don't even know how it is to play golf in real life. I have a reasonably low (6,3) handicap and I practice at least twice a week to achieve even more consistency in my game. So I want to do so also here in the game.

  Blaz

• chris5214 1,937 Posts

  Sat, Jun 23 2012 5:32 AM

  well blazh .. i don't think this will ever happen considering the WGT issues that need more attention in solving ..

  but .. i happen to agree with having a driving range like the one i use at home ..

  where you have target greens at various distances spread over the driving range so you can practise approach shots at diffirent distances under various conditions ..

  if one could have such a feature .. setting up diffirent conditions to practice approach shots (appart from the obvious drive practise), i personally would find that very valuable ..

  but alas, wgt has got bigger fish to fry ..

• ffifer 44 Posts

  Sat, Jun 23 2012 6:09 AM

  blazh:

  Then I'll try to explain why we'd love to have something like driving range with putting green, pitching green and bunkers included:

  1. On the course (practice round) you can't make 50 drives in a row, where you could test how ballflight is affected by trying to draw or fade it or combine those with back or forward spin;

  2. Same as above goes with sand saves and rough saves - I allways try those positions on range. I know that playing conditions are not the same on different courses but the system of play is somehow the same;

  3. There's one more thing which I consider complete bul****t in this game which is supposed to be "most realistic golf game ever" - when I buy new clubs in real life I allways have the chance to try them before actually buying them. And I don't have to pay for such rental. Why there's no way to get those expensive clubs for 3 or 6 or maybe even 9 holes (practice round of course) to get the impression if they're what you need and expect?

  Both points 1 and 2 can be achieved by creating driving range on one single hole which is allready used in the game.

  One more thing for those "smart" gamers who don't even know how it is to play golf in real life. I have a reasonably low (6,3) handicap and I practice at least twice a week to achieve even more consistency in my game. So I want to do so also here in the game.

  Blaz

   

  well put. this makes sense but I'm sure WGTicon won't be able to understand it.

  WGT can only understand how to pass the buck and make excuses. They are not thinking. Hell charge  a credit or 2 for a bucket of balls,  

• Buckthebuck 572 Posts

  Sat, Jun 23 2012 6:13 AM

  how sweet would a range be....catch me on the far right hittin a bucket fulla stingers