New studio for f1 license?
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 ...
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Can’t see anyone paying more than EA for the licensing either…. FOM love money
@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 🤷
- @mariohomoh It is not really the driving model that is bothering me the most. It is manageable. It is the buggy mess that are the games they are releasing, with no progress at all in any aspects of the game. It has been stagnant for years. And i went through steam sales numbers of the games. The series spiked notably for f1 2020, likely a combination of dts and especially covid. In just a few years the numbers have been plummeting. And that is what the corporates care about.
And ea has been in talks of causing pr damage before, and launching bad products is excactly that. Remember when ea had exclusive rights to star wars? Disney openly threatened to sue ea for foor poor handling of their trademark from the backlash of their star wars games.
If the games keep getting buggy releases with no improvement, alienating the customers, something sure will be done.
I have also read how ross brawn wants a proper f1 sim racing title next to the simcade title. But if the sim title is actually done and done well, would there really be enough customers for the codemasters games? Sims with proper settings and assists can be made accessible to anyone. And especially the driving model of f1 22 sure ain't accessible.@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” 😆- @ScarDuck14 Ea did remove microtransactions from the game after the backlash. They still have lootboxes in their games, so they syre did not do them because of government involvement, despite lootboxes already being illegal in some places.
And i forgot to mention, fom already stepped in to say that ea should focus in f1 cars, not road cars, in the series. And if the sales keep plummeting, fom sure will take some action somehow.
