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Re: July Roadmap
DIR By: Chad Brown
Date: July 26, 2017, 11:19 am
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The Screen shot looks absolutely stunning.
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Re: July Roadmap
DIR By: Simon J
Date: July 26, 2017, 1:07 pm
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So to implement this pay mod guess you need the new UI ;D ;D ;D
;D next week be a good one :)
could be wrong as we only had few peeks at UI features
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Re: July Roadmap
DIR By: Rick Adams
Date: July 26, 2017, 3:21 pm
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I really do not like what I am hearing about a penalty system,
license structure blah... blah... In my opinion that is one of
the many things I don't like about iracing. Most of us drivers
are already ego maniac alpha types. Adding this penalty and
license B.S. will only inflate heads and cause a lot of arguing
and bickering within the sim community. For proof, take a look
at iracing's forums, or race with voice chat enabled. The
iracing community is one of the worst communities I've ever seen
in terms of friendliness.
Paying for content. I don't mind this as long as it is quality
content. They need to make a living...
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Re: July Roadmap
DIR By: Tig_green
Date: July 27, 2017, 4:08 am
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5� is ok I guess. I'm not too excited for this specific car but
in general I think 5� is a fair price to pay for something
interesting and good quality.
My only fear in this dlc move is that it might divide people.
Even if the price is good, there are still many who won't/can't
buy dlcs.
When we will choose mods in the future, we need to think about
if they are popular enough to fill the grid. Still better
situation than not having that extra content though, but a
limiting factor for sure. But maybe nothing new because there
haven't been many mods in rf2 so far either that would fill
grids. So some new people might buy rf2 because of quality dlcs
and some old might be left out if they are too accustomed to
free stuff (It's safe to assume that some old content won't be
very popular anymore among those who adapt the new dlc system).
Lets hope this change will be good for rf2.
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Re: July Roadmap
DIR By: Simon J
Date: July 27, 2017, 11:53 am
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yep think everyone will be tempted with new GT3 pack agreed some
wont buy but bar all URD and ASR mods
not spent any money on rf2 since it was released happy to chuck
bit wonga there way
picked up most dlc in p cars and AC in humble bundle packs
recently so 15 dollars ish on each game for all of it ;D
some will buy so testing will be possible and donations will
keep chads server up to date :)
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Re: July Roadmap
DIR By: Chad Brown
Date: July 27, 2017, 5:04 pm
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I am curious about the 5 Euros for the car. Is that for the
single car or is it for the larger "GT Pack". Frankly, I see the
web based UI being part of a bigger iRacing Style competition
setup. For me at least this is a step in the right direction, so
long as they don't make the same mistakes that iRacing has with
its subscription model.
What do most people say about iRacing? It is a great service and
typically a driver can find a race in the most popular classes
they want to drive whenever they want.
What turns most drivers off and keeps them from continuing to
use the service? It's not the safety system. It is not the
license system. Its not even the generally immature voice comms
screaming vulgarities into your ears. No folks, while all those
things have their annoying parts, by far the number one reason
people stop playing iRacing is having to pay for both content
AND a subscription.
rF2 proved beyond a doubt that rF2 users are not willing to pay
a subscription model for sub par online activity. Lets face it,
unless you were in a league the online racing in rF2 was spotty
at best. This was a major criticism of rF2 from the beginning.
People were simply not interested in paying a miserly yearly fee
of $12.00 to continue to race online. I don't blame rF2 users
for this attitude, especially when AC offered pretty good online
activity included in the initial purchase.
Another thing AC proved is that people are willing to purchase
DLC. I will admit though that I am super frugal with my gaming
money and I did not purchase any of the DLC. As the DLC packs
came out they did not offer me a compelling reason to buy them.
They included way too many road cars I didn't care about. They
offered tracks I didn't care about. Also I could not race on any
server that had ANY DLC I didn't own. This was another turn off
for me. By the time AC was offering decent race cars in their
DLC and the ability to race on servers with unowned content I
had already stopped playing AC.
If rF2 offers DLC that is compelling I will buy it. Obviously I
will buy DLC that the league will be using for the server, but
above that, if S397 puts together DLC packs that make sense like
F1 packs, GT3 Packs, Supercar V8 Packs, Etc I will be much more
likely to buy it.
In short, S397 could hit a home run if they offered the iRacing
experience with the rF2 physics, FFB, and high quality drivers,
but then did in in a way that doesn't break the bank. Charging a
fee for content, inexpensive series based packs, series based
track packs, Etc, and then allowing for online play without the
subscription would be the best of both worlds. Selling only
content would both help pay the bills and allow for the user
base to not be locked out of the content they purchase because
they dont want to continue to pay the additional costs of a sub.
I think S397 is on the road to this exact scenario and I for one
am wholly on board. I wish them nothing but the best of success.
To have a truly affordable version of iRacing would be amazing.
The end users of both games would benefit when iRacing has to
drop their subs or the cost of their content from their
currently sky high rates. rF2 users would benefit from a large
influx of new users when people start to realize rF2 is the new
affordable iRacing.
In short, Bring it on. I am willing to spend money on this
service.
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