3 years ago
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...
Codemasters 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.
Do you think everyone that played F1 voted on this poll? I had no idea there was even a poll about it. Don’t even follow codemasters or EA on social media like a huge amount of people I expect. This game is supposed to be catered for the casual gamer, who are the main purchasers of the game. That’s why there’s features like F1 world and breaking point and hot laps (which I think are all rubbish but they’re there for the casual gamer no doubt).
Without the ability for the casual gamer to play an on demand championship with a couple of mates alongside AI, in my opinion it makes this game totally pointless for me and thousands of others which is evident to see in many other threads on this site. I’ve also never used race net nor discord (what is discord 😂) to set anything up. Not all of us think we’re esports drivers and fill up a 20 person league and race at a set time each week…