Rubber banding is "not fair and not fun" - Black Rock

The team behind Pure, Disney Black Rock's all-terrain racing game that was released towards the end of last year, went to great lengths to avoid the use of 'rubber banding' - the technique which ensures AI controlled opponents never stray too far from the player - because it "breaks the illusion of fairness" in the game, and is "not fair" and "not fun."

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