And after this mobile game what awaits us?

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@seichrotierer wrote:

If this is true there may be better times ahead:

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We don’t know the terms of the F1 license between EA/CM and FOM, both on performance and for termination. FOM is all about the money, just look at what each circuit has to shell out for the privlege of hosting a race and how that goes up every year. So likely FOM sees the gaming license as more income from their IP and less a promotional investment to encorage interest in the series

If there are such talks, as rumored above, going on between EA and FOM then it would indicate a failure to meet the terms is near or already happened. This may even have been starting to stress CM prior to the EA acquisition. EA probably figured it could just lay its game dev strategy on the series and milk it enough to cover the cost.

But the aging code base for the series is tired and not so well managed - trying to leverage DTS buzz by bolting on new and questionable stuff wasn’t as easy as it seemed. So sofas and recurring bugs for everyone while the core game modes suffered

Last year I suggested making 24 a free or low cost DLC add on to 23 as the not much was changing to then double down on 25. This would have been a marginal cost, made some additional sales of an already completed fairly solid release, and maybe garnered some goodwill or at least a lot less grumbling

Some worthwhile attempts to move forward went into 24 but lacking a good code base and enough focused resources, the knock on effects on the AI and other features was not handled well and whatever testing that was done was not enough to avoid the current mess

Meanwhile the whole gaming industry is suffering and EA has put a lot of their cash into football. Given the financials around the gaming industry who could pay FOM a heavy fee while taking on the cost/risk of a AAA game? Plus console support is needed to make the numbers work - last year 50% entries on the time trials were PS users

The rule changes for 26 means the series will need a big refresh. But 25 needs to up the sales pace massively from 24 in order for the game to survive

Will EA let CM step up or just prefer to let it die? or sell it off? Its mostly about numbers for them

Will FOM incentivize another shop to take the license or just ask a big fee? Its mostly about numbers for them too

Been w the game since the start, paid the yearly investment, so feel let down by the lack of much progress on quality and experience since EA. But I really hope a quality F1 RACING game will be there in the future, just not sure how or if it will happen