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Seasoned Ace

1 year ago

Season 4 Podium Pass helmets

I’ve noticed a really cheeky trend with the first 3 seasons of podium pass. There have been 2 sets of customisable items (helmet, suit, glove, livery) in each season. They put the first set behind...

SDGMatt

Seasoned Ace

1 year ago

I would really like to know a genuine reason why there are barely any helmets and liveries in F1 24?

I actually really liked the ‘store’ in F1 23. It had plenty of choice and I purchased a bunch of the helmet designs! I even bought more pit coin to buy new ones!

This year, the store is empty! The price of the items has been hiked enormously from around 1500-2000 pitcoin up to 7500!!!!! and the designs are really lacklustre!

Players have voiced their annoyance that My Team mode has been neglected, but with just ONE customisable set in the base ‘Champions Edition’ mode at launch for £89.99, then it renders the fun of the mode pointless!!

Why can’t all the previous helmets from past games be added? There must be about 400 in total over the span of all the games. Are there licensing restrictions behind these? They don’t contain sponsors or logos. Does Codemasters not own the rights to these assets?
Just fill the store up!

I got 18,000 pit coin for my pre-order, and in addition to the pit coin unlocked in podium pass over the last 7 months, I have a total of 22,000, and nothing to spend it on. My guess is that nobody else is spending theirs either, and that’s why they’ve hiked one item up by 3 times the cost, and are now forcing players to buy the VIP tier or get nothing at all!
That’s a poor solution…

IanM282

Seasoned Ace

1 year ago

Implementing older helmet designs from previous games would cost virtually zero recourses. Instead in F124 we have a decimated store upon release and not that many more helmets even now compared to older games.

They are not interested in doing anything like that for the customer. They'd much rather have their own outlook on it to create the worst and most cartoon like helmet designs and then hide them behind the paywall.

Without doubt no other developer of an F1 game would even entertain this system because they'd know it would backfire.

A friend of mine said after EA took over from CM that the game franchise would get much worse, he was not wrong!