As cm/ea doesn't bother to give us a functioning game, which studio would you love to see as the new holders of f1 license?
I remember seeing rumors a few years ago that the makers of assetto corsa had been in the talks, but they did not want to agree on yearly releases. But i would be intrigued to hear great studios who could actually build a great f1 game for us.
Can’t see anyone paying more than EA for the licensing either…. FOM love money
Do you have a source for that Kunos rumour?
Nowadays I spend most of my time on iRacing, but for a good chunk ACC was my main sim. Loved to pop in in the occasional Aris stream, used to hang around on their Discord a lot (still do, but not daily as before) and even their forums.
All I heard was that Kunos had no interest in the F1 license mainly for the unwillingness of F1 teams to disclose data for the devs to work on.
Aris always talk with pride about how long it took to foster a close relationship with Pirelli, manufacturers, and private SRO teams so that they could get to the point of getting real performance parameters for their GT3 and GT4 lineup, and even getting to take cars from privateers to track themselves. The last time I caught Aris answering a similar question from a viewer in one of his lives last year he said something along these lines if I remember correctly.
There's a reason so much of ACC real data is encrypted in the game files – from aero maps to ICE ignition times, from chassis flex to turbo boost, from caster angles to weight distribution.
In the meantime, you can basically edit performance parameters for Codemasters' F1 games on Notepad.
Liberty Media does not want a F1 sim from Codemasters and EA. They want a profitable, widely available, widely accessible franchise to exploit their brand.
When you follow people in the sim business closely, like Aristotelis Vasilakos from ACC or Nim Cross and David Tucker from iRacing, you get a sense that they have nothing but respect for what Codemasters has accomplished in reproducing the feel of driving a F1 car with the little data they from F1 teams and Pirelli.
Which is obviously not to say that F1 is a good title; the franchise is clearly not in a good spot right now. Just that people in the simracing industry gives Codies a thumbs up considering how much of a videogame it is.
@ScarDuck14 wrote:Can’t see anyone paying more than EA for the licensing either…. FOM love money
Yeah, found it odd to kickstart the discussion with the Kunos bit. If the rumour went that they did not settle with Liberty because of their demanding of a yearly franchise, isn't the underlying message exactly that? "We want max gains, not quality"?
I'm really not in the mood to defend this franchise. F1 23 has the best handling I've seen in these games for a long while, but it's ridiculous to push for a full blown 60-70 price tag every year with this miserable number of reiterated issues and glacial progress on a proper single and multiplayer experience. That said, if the deal keeps on hitting FOM's revenue targets, do people really believe that Stefano Domenicali cares about simracing wheels not getting full torque, or My Team facilities' bonus not being properly thought out?
Not my intention to drag on anyone here. We all want a better game. I've said this before, but for how good the handling is I still do not recommend my friends buying F1 23 unless it's on a deep sale – so there's no white knighting or corporate shill here. But it is quite silly to thing that Libery wants an ACC or AMS2 for F1 🤷
@DechriDisney only jumped in after all hell broke loose about loot boxes when governments started to take notice. If Disney was that concerned they would have never signed off on allowing use off aggressive monetisation added to the game. EA changed Battlefront due to pressure from various countries governments… UK, Belgium, Netherlands to name a few. Not Disney
To paraphrase Axl Rose
“Ripping off the kids, while they bang their hard earned money to play the characters they read about” 😆
