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Post by Grizzlor on Dec 21, 2022 21:00:29 GMT -8
IndyCar has dumped licensing for iRacing, and social media has been completely torching them for it. On the heels of so many crass decisions lately (engines, Iowa prices, etc), this is really a black eye. To abandon this community is insane, particularly after iRacing and its competitors helped keep IndyCar afloat during the early 2020 pandemic.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2022 5:02:46 GMT -8
Dumb-asses.
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Post by boiler on Dec 22, 2022 9:44:08 GMT -8
Probably going to get EA to make a game for them, anyone remember the dumpster fires that were the old games from 15 years ago..... Don't worry there are plenty of games where you can download indycars and not pay a monthly fee....
Ok getting their own game done by arguably one of the best sim companies around, most pro sim setups use rfactor pro and rfactor 1 and 2 are considered some of the best sims made.
Now with that said the visibility they are losing is idiotic there is no reason they can't leave the license with iracing, Merc has their cars in the official F1 game and in iracing and Ferrari has multiple cars in different games.....
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Post by Grizzlor on Dec 24, 2022 9:50:27 GMT -8
This is not about downloading a model/skins or anything like that. iRacing is a community, and it's been very welcoming to IndyCar despite the series NEVER promoting the relationship, or offering assistance with say the Dallara physics or whatever. That's despite the incredible service iRacing provided for Indycar in 2020 when races were cancelled.
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Post by Power Fan79 on Dec 24, 2022 16:40:25 GMT -8
IndyCar has dumped licensing for iRacing, and social media has been completely torching them for it. On the heels of so many crass decisions lately (engines, Iowa prices, etc), this is really a black eye. To abandon this community is insane, particularly after iRacing and its competitors helped keep IndyCar afloat during the early 2020 pandemic.
I look at the positives for me personally: I don’t need to support the series as much anymore because they do not care about me. Indycar only cares about VIPs, and I get it, that’s important too, but the series needs to balance it out. I’m going to save a lot of money not going to races.
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Post by Spin on Dec 25, 2022 18:14:55 GMT -8
I've been a sim racer since 1995, ran my own series offline and online for 20 years, I looked into iRacing but sim racing changed a lot. It got big, spread to several other simulators, and became more of a gamer experience (wrecking cars to win, arguing, and the monthly fees and limitations of iRacing turned me off. I continued racing offline (the old fashioned way where drivers send in results files and at the end of the week the director ranked them). That fizzled and I continue to race offline by myself.
I switched from Papyrus sims when the community quit putting out updated cars and tracks. I got into Monster Games NASCAR Heat series, Tony Stewart's All Stars, Dirt Late Models, etc. I retired my heavily modded IndyCar Racing 2 sim for the more modern Forza 7. I can tweak the settings to get a realistic experience without all the BS from others. I miss the regulars I use to race online with, but they have moved on to several different online sims, or quit online racing altogether. And I'm back where I started, long before there was online racing, battling the AI and the tracks. Online was fun when it was fun.
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Post by boiler on Dec 26, 2022 10:52:08 GMT -8
Most offline people are using Assetto Corsa and rFactor 2, Forza is more on the arcade end of the slider. If you haven't upgraded to a direct drive wheel and are still using one of the Logitech G wheels you will be amazed at the level of detail and immersion.....
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Post by thirddegree on Feb 27, 2023 20:20:57 GMT -8
The company they've contracted with to build their game (and I use the term "company" very loosely) is almost assuredly not gonna end up making one. It's basically a Russian shell company that bleeds investors' money and uses it for the few execs to travel to races across the country and party.
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Post by Spin on Feb 28, 2023 16:00:00 GMT -8
The company they've contracted with to build their game (and I use the term "company" very loosely) is almost assuredly not gonna end up making one. It's basically a Russian shell company that bleeds investors' money and uses it for the few execs to travel to races across the country and party. Good to know. I won’t hold my breath on that one.
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Post by boiler on Jan 11, 2024 19:48:39 GMT -8
The company they've contracted with to build their game (and I use the term "company" very loosely) is almost assuredly not gonna end up making one. It's basically a Russian shell company that bleeds investors' money and uses it for the few execs to travel to races across the country and party. This aged pretty well.... racer.com/2024/01/09/indycar-ims-and-iracing-reunite-with-multiyear-licensing-agreement/Hopefully they can get the LeMans (WEC) game out before they fold
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Post by Grizzlor on Jan 13, 2024 7:57:25 GMT -8
The company they've contracted with to build their game (and I use the term "company" very loosely) is almost assuredly not gonna end up making one. It's basically a Russian shell company that bleeds investors' money and uses it for the few execs to travel to races across the country and party. This aged pretty well.... racer.com/2024/01/09/indycar-ims-and-iracing-reunite-with-multiyear-licensing-agreement/Hopefully they can get the LeMans (WEC) game out before they fold Motorsports Games is completely done, forget it. Great to hear that iRacing has IndyCar again. I still think they should invest in a standalone game, but who knows when that would be ready?
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