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It's honestly kinda impressive to see just how bad EA has fumbled this series.
They have the licence of the biggest Motorsport series during its biggest boom period. And this is the best they can do.
Although Codemasters do need to shoulder some blame, for a company that's been making racing games since 1987. F124 makes them look like a bunch of amateurs. Looking through the inexcusable bugs introduced in the latest patch, the basics seem too much for them to handle.
If these guys are serious about trying to win back fan trust. Something serious needs to be done.
But I just know that the first f125 trailer will feature the line "revamped F1world" and that's when I'll give up on this series entirely.
I don't mind EA being the publisher, while codemasters takes the task of making the game by themselves. Just like F1 21, EA published the game, and the game was actually good, the only down being the removal of the classic cars. They had new damage model (even though the visuals changed when the full game got released), you finally could get engine failures. So the game was good.
The problem is that EA is pressing to get things the way they want to be made. And we all know that EA more recently just thinks about money, and when there is no more money from that particular game, they just give up on it.
Why do you think the game was published so early this year? That was most likely EA ideas. The game was never released so early before.
EA can easily be a better company if they actually listen to the customers they serve. But they don't. That's why I don't believe nothing being written here will be taken into account. However, I hope I'm wrong.
- IanM2824 months agoSeasoned Ace
@TomasSlb24Have to completely agree with that. I'm not overly familiar with many EA games to be honest. But when it was solely just Codemasters making the game, it was night and day better.
If EA want to ensure some future success with the series, then I think they have to just let Codemasters get on with it.
The ideas that EA have drummed up and implemented are so far detached from what we all want in the game. They surely have to now realise it's just not working. Sales figures alone should tell them that quite clearly.
If they are serious in resurrecting the game from the depths it has plummeted to since they took over. Then they need to listen to the community and implement the changes we have come up with.
They of course can not please everyone, but a lot of what's been said in this thread alone is just basic simple stuff.
It is absolutely imperative that they get the basics and fundamentals correct for F125 and not come up with another gimmick and unrealistic nonsense that doesn't belong in the game.
How hard is it to create a basic helmet editor? By implementing one alone would be more welcomed by the community than F1 world and fanzone! Which are just a complete waste of time and resources. At second best at least create more helmet designs and put them in the store.
In my opinion they also either have to address the amount of game breaking bugs in the game or have a much faster turn around time for resolving them.
The QA testing for F124 was beyond shambolic. This also has to be much better for F125.
I really hope that people from EA are serious about reading this entire thread that has been created.
They have a great opportunity to turn things around for F125. I along with everyone else truly hope they do. - 4 months ago@IanM282 This thread really just shows how much passionate this community is with this franchise. Not only because it's the only one fully licensed where you can actually drive the car, but because we here really like F1. If no one here really cared about the game, no one would really say much in this thread.
Instead, we have a massive thread with a lot of insights of what should be modified, what should be removed and what should be added. But the devs should still be more open to talk to us.
I know they send representatives to come here and say "We are passing this info to them". Ok, what now? What conclusion did they take? Are they actually trying to implement them? Are they actually thinking about removing some features of non importance to add better features? Because simples modders just do this in so little time, like modifying dirty air effect, slipstream, DRS, ERS.
If they came here and be more specific about what they're trying to do, we would gain more trust in them, and that's what missing at the moment. We have no trust in the development of F1 25.
I'm not expecting the sales to be the same as F1 20 or even F1 21, that were different times. Different booms in sales. We had COVID, everyone was at home, DTS came out and caught many people attention, and that's why F1 20 and F1 21 got so much sales. Even if F1 25 would be a really good step up from what we've been having lately, it will not reach the numbers of that two games, maybe not even from F1 22. - IanM2824 months agoSeasoned Ace
@TomasSlb24Agreed, you also touched on a very good point there regarding those who are able to modify and edit things on the game to improve it. Unfortunately for me and a lot of others who play on consoles are stuck with the game in its current state, which is absolutely rubbish.
The fact that the modders who created these adjustments to improve things can generally do it easily and in no time, says a lot about the mindset of EA who are more interested in creating Fanzone than rectifying everything that is wrong with the game in the first place.
If these people can improve the game in what is probably every area, why can't the game be programmed much better by the developers in the first place?
They honestly should just hire a passionate F1 fan as part of their team who has knowledge of the sport. Since EA took over it's as far away from F1 as I've ever known. - 4 months ago
Hey, I applaud them for asking. Not all firms would care to find out. Hopefully some of these ideas can get into future games. I understood from 2021 that FOM set constraints on what could be done.
- 4 months ago
To be honest I really like f1 24 obviously it could be improved. For improvements in the future (future games) I feel like we should be able to actually change the look of our my team car like sidepods ect. These models can be taken from the 2022 cars and 2023 cars this would be a fun idea at least. And for more creativity it would awesome to have the option in audio settings to go from v6 engines to v8 and v10 or even v12, this would be something console users would love to see. As for the menus I think take a good look at 2012 and see what made that games menus look awesome, even though it’s a old look f1 2012 really has a great opening screen and menu, I’m sure it would look just as good in 2025 or 2026. The handling is fine I guess other than some rear end stability that’s about it. This may never be looked at by the creators of f1 games but if it is this is what really would be cool. This all could be added up from late 2025 and further even though it takes time, time makes a good game. Maybe instead of making a new game ever year release a game called Formula 1 and have features from current f1 games but make it so you can play different eras. I wouldn’t care if you had to pay to play the 2016 era so as long as it’s with the new graphics and I can change form 2016 to 2023 for example. Make it so that you have one game and you pay to unlock different f1 seasons. A lot of people may not like paying but it would potentially be one of the best things to do and yolo it.
So yea that’s what I guess I would want do read it if you’d don’t want to i don’t really care it’s just what would be nice to see in the game.
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