@Nellix82 As the game content is F1 specific. It limits its appeal compared to other racing games GT7/Forza with amount of different cars etc. Even though ACC is a hardcore sim. What it does have are cars most people know and aspire to one day having the road legal model.
F1 cars are obviously out of everyones reach. Plus to most they all look the same and then like this season it was very exciting up front. F1 really is a niche sport that only really appeals to those off use that geek out to automotive engineering. Which a majority will be casual gamers at best.
Making the game a sim will mean a high learning curve which will put a large number of F1 players off. So the game can only exist imo as a SimCade at most. I think the strategy behind F1 world was to make it more Arcade in hope of making it more appealing to wider demographic of people and by F1 world’s mechanics it’s obviously targeted at younger players. But imo again was always going to fail. Younger players want NFS 5 minute race excitement and crashes. Then will progress to GT7/Forza
But I have always loved Codemasters SimCade philosophy. But rather than spend time and resources improving and strengthening that philosophy they have got caught in the trap off trying to come up with something big and shiny that will grab the headlines. As sales of game have shown. It’s been an epic fail.
Very Good YouTube video by a Proper Sim racer.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nfaC727lnrg