Why AC is not a service?

I have to disagree with the OP. iRacing killed a great game and associated mods when it was being developed. I like how this is being handled. No need for a pay to play service.

 

yea, Horus hit it on the head. when it comes for example, to the vast number of mods and tracks available in rfactor 1 and 2, you certainly have a choice as to what you want. I for one, do not accept crap, even when it's free. but frankly, I do get a little tired with the way Iracing is always trying to pick my pocket. every time you turn around it's: "content required, add to cart". also, for what it's worth, I do not like the cars in Iracing very much. exception: Kia Optima,Skippy, and the radical.

 

A dedicated online service of the expanse and quality of iRacing is expensive to create and maintain. And in the simracing world it is not too popular. IIBC, iRacing advertises as having 50,000 members (I assume that means "active members" and not members whose memberships have lapsed?).

I would hate to see KS try to some cheap online service in the style of simraceway!

 

From my limited online racing experience running in leagues provides the best quality racing. Unfortunately, I don't have time to join a racing league and adhere to their racing schedule and that is why I play iRacing. iRacing has the cleanest online pickup racing. I fear that when AC has MP available any public servers will be a crashfest
(I would love to be proven wrong by the online pickup racers).

At this time I am planning to use AC for offline racing.
iRacing for online pickup racing.
win - win!

 

I also wonder what legal realms we are stepping into with regards to unlicensed cars and the like once Kunos start putting their stamp of approval on things.

 

Either you have too much money or I have too little. Either way this makes me sad

 

I'm one of those "minority prefer single player" racers. I never got into iracing because of it's business model/lack of single player.

I love the fact that AC has a strong dedication to offline racing.

Granted a service based online will be superior overall, but it's too early judge the MP aspect of AC yet. At least it's an option.

I know I'd certainly lose interest if I suddenly had to pay for each new car and track. I'm happy to settle for periodic DLC packs that have content and keep it a fairly even playing field for MP.

 

It's called commercial sense.

 

Sorry to say, but you are about 5 years late in the iRacing hype.

 

hehe and many are years behind on their "I hate iRacing (sour grapes)" due to lack of service knowledge

 

Exactly mate.
I'm playing both sims now. AC is new a shiny, but it will probably take another 1,5-2 years until it reaches the maturity of iRacing, expecially when we are talking about online multiplayer. In fact, I doubt it will ever reach that because it's not built around the service model.

 

I'm curious how you think a feature that no one has yet to try is 1.5 to 2 years from maturity. Shouldn't that be something we perhaps should try before coming to any conclusions, and I'd even go so far as to say perhaps we should wait until v 1.0 before true comparisons are made.
You do know what they say about when you assume, right?

 

AC has a lot of Netkar Pro followers (we've been waiting for years for this) and for purist racing reasons - sim racing is a passion, myself included . AC will not develop into a multi-player crash feast it will not be tolerated by the groups that are formed and will be formed. Yes, been there done iracing and it is not for me. It amuses me when I see posts can we have this can we have that model - well there are games out there that have 1000+ cars all shiny and new waiting to be driven, but none will ever drive like this sim. I would rather have one car that is simulated properly than a garage full of garbage - hell when I first tried Netkar it took me 30 minutes to work out how to start the car. Well, each to there own - enjoy it while it lasts!

 

well said
I still have nightmares of the horrible wreckers in online pickup racing of GT5, FM4, and GTR2.
I did not buy GTR2 until around 2012(?) off of steam. GTR2 being what I consider my first racing sim I expected clean online pickup racing, but it is the same as other simcade racing games. I gave up on GTR2 and I am sticking with iRacing for online racing at this time.

 

Hmm i had good times in gtr2..
In race07 it was worse with wreckers Imo.


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guy's. AC has a modding capeablity. What if we made a mod that runs that multiplayer system (just like the rsr app)

 

I had good times in GTR2 for s short time when I was in a GTR2 league and the racing was fantastic!! the online pickup racing is hwere I would always run into wreckers.

 

The iRacing model is really offputting to people new to the genre such as myself.
I got RACE 07 in a bundlestars bundle, played an hour of it, and then went and spent about £50 on all the DLC. But iRacing's model still really puts me off.

 

The fact that they gave us the capability to mod, create and MANAGE ourselves every aspect of the multiplayer is something awesome imho.
Community driven championships are going to be 10 times better than any standard pre-packaged thingy, IF the community accepts 'em and starts to work cooperatively on them.
When u'll see AC's (and every other sub community) dedicated community members punishing the real responsible of every reported accident instead of simply kicking you out of a race you're gonna regret those 12$ a month.

 

If you can join a league then any racing game will have good online racing. If you are like me too busy with real-life to have to adhere to a league timetable then online pickup racing on the iRacing service cannot be beat.


I had the same feeling when I got into simracing around 2009. However, after being a member of iRacing for the last 2 years I have to say it is worth every. single. penny.
After experiencing I would gladly pay double the iRacing fees to be a member, since the online pickup racing is that good.