Why only 3 helmets?

Hey folks, 

Customisation items such as helmets, liveries, race suits and more are available in several areas of the game including the Free and VIP tiers of Podium Pass, the Shop, and through Pro Challenge and Challenge Career events as rewards for completing objectives.

Following the release of Season 2, players have been gifted a 'Maple Forest' customisable helmet via the in-game Mail system. Additionally, Podium Pass and shop items have been refreshed.

You can find out more about some of the items that will be unlockable as Objective rewards by checking the Season 2 blog post here.

@CM_TGK @SDGMatt 

How can you promote such poor content on the game like that?

The possibilities for customization and content are completely at a standstill.

Releasing 3 or 4 cosmics through events or challenges, do you call that content ?

The system totally needs freshness, I have said it several times and we have been asking for it for years.

Where is the helmet and suit livery editor? Visor color, in-depth cosmetics, community sharing system for livery creators ?

With all due respect, jumpsuits and helmets with pumpkins, trees, and 80s flames have nothing to do with an official game and in no way make the franchise credible.

I don't understand at all the fact that your team does not look into this subject once and for all and involve your guys in this in order to really bring content and freedom to customization.

There is immense potential to be exploited on this problem which has been going on for years, already in F1 2010 it was requested despite the fact that the helmets are more realistic than today which is unfortunate.

Your motto is Work in Progress, right? There we are at work at a standstill for my part.

Give us real things and lots of content, it's the least you can do for a community that has been following you for years despite the fact that the price of games is increasing but the content is decreasing.

I think before talking about need it's a question of respect, that's all ! Good day 👋

They are clearly not listening here. Well actually maybe they are but just choose to simply ignore what we have all been asking for.

If they think that adding in a couple of helmets to be unlocked, or even worse pricing them at 7500 pit coins is giving us what we have been asking for they are sadly mistaken.

All this does is make us customers even more fed up with this abomination of a game!

Absolutely disgusted!

@CM_TGK I’m sorry but that response shows how utterly out of touch with players you guys are. 

In stark contrast, F1 Manager 24 launched this week. I’m delighted to say that the customisation options on that are infinitely superior, including fully-customisable sponsor logo placement on both liveries and suits. What’s more, the game was less than half the price of F1 24. 

Shows what is possible when a developer/studio actually gives a damn about its player base.

As others have said above, that response is, at best, laughable; at worst, insulting. 

Hey there,

Thank you all for your feedback and for sharing your frustration with us. Every comment is welcome as long as it is within our Rules & Guidelines.

I had to moderate a couple of messages that were breaching those rules. Please, be mindful and respectful when posting.

-Groguet

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@EA_Groguet wrote:

Hey there,

Thank you all for your feedback and for sharing your frustration with us. Every comment is welcome as long as it is within our Rules & Guidelines.

I had to moderate a couple of messages that were breaching those rules. Please, be mindful and respectful when posting.

-Groguet

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Everything here is more respectful than putting 2 free helmets into the game when 1 is purple and you cannot change it. There should be like 50 helmets +. Also new helmet for almost 10 000 pitcoins is crazy.

This post should be pinned on the forum ⚠️

The demand and complaints about personalization and content are very strong.

Twitter, Instagram, Facebook the distress of the community at this level is present more than ever.

Given all the feedback I think that this is no longer even an option but indeed an urgent necessity to provide answers and concrete changes on this.

@EA_Groguet 

@DavidLld33 fully agree with this. It needs to be an absolute priority issue at this point. 

@EA_Groguet I’m not sure where you’re seeing anything against the rules or guidelines? Everything that people have said in here is true. The utter contempt with which EA/Codies seem to be treating its players on this matter is diabolical.

EA have proven that they can make excellent games with good customisation features when they want to. WRC and the new College Football 25 are excellent examples. For some reason with F1 a totally different approach is taken, whereby they strip out the content players want and replace it with pointless stuff nobody wants. It boggles the mind how they think this is the right approach. 

Do they not realise that what they are doing now in terms of having most of the customisation features removed will massively damage sales for F125?

It beggars belief just how out of touch they are with the customer base. Is it just laziness and they can't be bothered? 

All F124 resembles is by far the worst copy and paste with content removed. How on earth was that ever going to go down well and be anything else other than a complete flop.

The complaints are not just on here regarding the lack of content and customisation, it's all over social media. Until they wake up from giving us absolute piffle pointless items and provide us what we are "ALL" asking for, sales will continue to plummet.

You have let down so many loyal customers.

I won't buy any future F1 Game developed from EA, this customer support is terrible.

Customization is just one of many problems.

I wouldn't wonder if most of the Codemasters crew left the game - if you review this quality of game.

Will wait until the next F1 game is only 30 EUR and even then not sure if I would buy it.

Even if they would change the game engine, I believe there will be even more bugs after 

What happened to the plans to release additional content and liveries with each "Season"

Sure two new liveries have been included, at a cost of an extreme number of pit coin points which is just silly.   Once decent one in the podium pass series.    But the 2 they want pitcoin for.. who would actually pay for those anyways.  They're hideous and not something you'd ever see on a real track.

Several pages worth of people wanting more liveries in this topic and here we are still with nothing essentially.   How this game shipped with only 3 liveries for F1 World and My team combined just blows my mind.

@petro1319 

Yes so many posts and complaints among the community but no changes or improvements.

What a disappointment once again 😔

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@CM_TGK wrote:

Hey folks, 

Customisation items such as helmets, liveries, race suits and more are available in several areas of the game including the Free and VIP tiers of Podium Pass, the Shop, and through Pro Challenge and Challenge Career events as rewards for completing objectives.

Following the release of Season 2, players have been gifted a 'Maple Forest' customisable helmet via the in-game Mail system. Additionally, Podium Pass and shop items have been refreshed.

You can find out more about some of the items that will be unlockable as Objective rewards by checking the Season 2 blog post here.

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And so far the stuff in Podium Pass is spread out and useless. The store has nothing interms of useable liveries, helmets, race suits, or team badges. Who cares how many different fake sponsors there are? And your themed stuff is rediculous.

Create some realistic team badges, like the stag head, a big cat, clover leaf etc. Look at you old liveries that looked like real F1 teams, same for helmets and make them available, even if it costs pit coin.

BTW why do the helmets have matte and gloss finish that can’t be changed like you did with the liveries?

Common, you’ve had enough time.

BTW not going to waste time on F1 world seasons when I want to race in My Team and Career. 

I hesitate to say this since I like the handling in Patch 1.7 and enjoy driving, but I over paid for the game by preordering. It was worth half of what I paid.

Agreed again and again. The entire system for race wear is beyond poor.

I'll keep saying it, they have let everyone down this year with this unpopular decision. 

As for F1 world, what a complete and utter waste of time and resources it is. Just imagine what they could have done with the time spent on this load of unrealistic garbage, that hardly anyone cares about.

START LISTENING TO THE COMMUNITY!

The fact we already have 12 pages on this thread is a real condemnation of the response to the fan base’s requests. 

And they'll continue to ignore us and do it their way. Good luck with sales in F125!

@IanM282 This post should be pinned as I have it. The demand is very strong and hoped for by the community but as we are talking to a wall apparently we still have the same point on content and personalization

@DavidLld33Agreed mate. What absolutely bedraggles me is they don't seem to realise that this unpopular decision they've made regarding the helmet debacle will come back to bite them big time.

Sales are way down for F124. So their marketing strategy is to remove basic helmet designs, completely and blatantly ignore and disregard all those requests to everyone who's bought the game over many years.

All this does is damage sales for F125, it's absolutely laughable that they can't see it and continue down this blinkered path.

Good luck EA for F125!

Yes, this F1 24 was the last straw.

Frankly, it's good that our complaints go back to the developers, but seeing the time pass without any action on their part is no.

Leaving your community like this without real or concrete answers is not acceptable.

And as I said, we are on a demand for content, for personalization not for a graphics engine or manipulation which I think is much harder or even impossible to implement during an F1 opus.

If he can't do that, it's still serious. F1 25 we will have to work a lot because the loss of the franchise is coming soon even with a MAX or a LANDO to promote the games, without the community so for us the games are no longer.

@IanM282 It has already been said and despite the excuse of licenses which just look at the independent creators of MODS on Racedepartment.com.

Real helmet liveries for the official teams in career mode for example, I saw the Ferrari Miami livery, the Mclaren Senna of Monaco, which were made only a few days after these grand prix by guys who aren't even part of it.

from EA or Codemasters.

It's serious, on the Official F1 games that only 2 or 3 helmets are offered after a few months.

And then they dare to tell us that there was a little content thanks to the events. Seriously ? 🤡

I had preordered a lot of the  games since 2017. I skipped 2023 for a petty reason, I didn’t want to look at Verstappen on the cover. But I think I may never pre-order an F1 game again. 

What would be the point? Pitcoins to spend on non-existent customization? Since I don’t race online, all the junk in the never ending Podium pass is useless. Who cares about fake sponsorship?

This far in I can only say I feel I way overpaid for this game. I never felt like that before.