F1 2023 Thoughts So Far
I am a big F1 fan and have played every game since 2013, some of which have been memorable and others...not so much. However, I have always continued to get the latest one as Codemasters always tried...
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nobody uses in game leagues which is why it was scrapped. but lets be real. any serious league organises itself over discord. EAs idea to instead pull it into racenet is somewhat questionable. dont need the mode in the first place. racenet itself is extremely popular and I know hundrets of people using it for practice.
About the testing: Codemasters either does not do any testing, or they simply dont care. colossal issues such as the equal cars not being equal should and couldve been known from testing and beta. and yet it wasnt. same as the marbles. they are a serious issue for everybody who doesnt stick to the "ingame racing line" or "AI line". the marbles spawn next to the AI racing line. which is is insanley stupid and unrealistic, as the AI doesnt even take the actual racing line (good example Spain T3. AI takes wide line but the actual racing line is the inside line. Marbles spawn on the actual racing line)
it doesnt make any sense whatsoever. its like punishing people who drive on the real racign line and people who blindly follow the rainbow in the middle of the screen have it easier.
- @Wollcott I don't agree nobody uses in game league and it's not fair to generalize just because maybe you don't use them. As you can see in this thread a lot of people are using leagues in game and a lot more don't come to the forums to leave a comment or a new thread. Leagues system in game was the best.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Leagues/Custom-League-s-dependencies-for-Racenet-are-terrible-choice/td-p/12652057/page/18Codemasters did a poll within league racers last year to "improve the ingame league system". only about 10% of active league racers said they fully or casually use the ingame system. 80% said discord. So the actual usage of that mode seemed to be absoutely limited, especially since you cant apply steward penalties or revert other penalties.
It was known for over a year that EA declared war to the league racing community as they have no control over the potential revenue bigger leagues make. At the same time ingame league system was by far the least used mode. So for a long time it was knwon EA is goign to try and relaunch their own league systems, why they chose racenet for that nobody knows. they shouldve just stayed out of it completely.
I have no idea how you can say the league system isn't used lol. Literally everyone uses it, which is why the game has received so much negativity. There are countless amounts of threads and posts about EA not implementing it into the game at launch. I for one don't even know what Discord is. Guessing an app of some kind to talk to people.
But I would guess the majority of players over the age of 30 are never going to see a poll or use a separate system to organise racing with friends haha. EA have just gone down the road of accommodating the hardcore players more than the majority of casual players. We just get home from work, do the chores and finally get the kids to bed to have about 90 minutes to ourselves. Whatsapp our friends, turn the console on and continue our championship in the leagues to earn those all important participant medals lol.
Now I know your going to reply to this and tell me how wrong I am or I dont have a clue but I dont really care haha. The amount of people who have gone back to F1 2022 now after a month of no update says it all. I for one know of 5 different people in separate friend groups who have all either traded / sold the game or just put it in the draw and put the old 2022 disc back in.
