My biggest concern about F1 25 is the Podium Pass

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I really enjoy this game. It´s the first time since F1 2013 that I enjoy and recommend a Codemasters F1 game during its release phase. But the Podium Pass is a disgrace, especially for someone that´s coming from F1 2020 and only saw glimpses of F1 22, 23 and 24 because the 10 hour EA Play trials were more than enough for me to decide to not waste money on those games.

But in order to come back to the topic: The amount of base custiomisation items is a joke. 3 liveries, 3 suits, 3 helmets, a hand full of Fortnite like emotes and poses and a short list of emblem symbols. All that to fill their ridiciulous podium pass. Even the most basic emblem symbols (like the Donut), most usless F1 World items and stuff they literally just copied from previous games into F1 25 are locked behind that pass.
And what´s even worse than that is that there is a VIP option because of course there is. And obviously EA got clever people so not only do they lock the actually interesting stuff behind the VIP option, no, the base game comes with exactly 0 PitCoins so you got to spend at least an other 12€ on top to get access and THEN you need to spend enough time with the game to make an other 10k PitCoins by the pass in order to get VIP for season two if you don´t want to spend an other 12€.

Custiomisation and the new decal editor were a huge marketing point for this years game and then they act like this. They´re not even decent enough to at least give every player those required 10k coins for season 1 so that everyone got the fair chance to get through VIP by just playing the game without spending extra money after already purchasing a 60€ videogame. It´s a shame and I really hope that now that they finally released a decent F1 game that´s fun to play since day one they stop tyring to milk their customers wallets with cheap tricks like this.

sdgmatt · Answer

This was one of my biggest complaints about F1 24, and 25 is a significant improvement. 24 launched with a barebones Store and never improved. Now we've got a couple of decent designs that look a lot more realistic. Well done for finally putting a bit of thought in!!

It could still be improved further though. Please get rid of the F1 World things in Podium Pass. Nobody plays it. Nobody cares, and honestly, you play the game for half an hour on any mode and it throws all that stuff at you anyway!!! It's not what people want in podium pass!

Go back to F1 2020/21 quality of content for Podium Pass, fill up the "Store" like in F1 23, and i guarantee you'll get players spending pitcoin!! I've already bought 3 Helmets from the store!!

aef251 · Answer

Last year the community railed about this. This year is only a bit better but they keep making liveries that I think are unrealistic and unusable.

At least the game, outside of a major wet racing issue and a few minor things, is good.

ianm282 · Answer

Although the helmet designs that were released with the game are a gargantuan improvement on what we've previously had, mainly F124, I fully agree that the podium pass is still lacking in quality and filled with utter garbage! F1 World is the biggest waste of recourses and needs to be completely binned.

I just hope that there are more quality helmet designs released within the podium pass for the remainder of F125. EA please do not start reverting back to the atrocious designs that look like they've been created in Microsoft paint again.

The designs so far look excellent with the sponsors on them and just the general overall design looks more like a real racing helmet now.

What they should do is release a helmet editor which everyone has been asking for. In the interview I saw this year with someone from EA they said it's something they'd consider. Not a chance as long as podium pass is around.

The thing is it's so blatantly obvious absolutely no one cares one iota about their awful podium pass. But they keep persisting with it, typical really!

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