F1 23 Release Date
So I want to know when we think we will get the game released this year? My thinking and i know its early days but I believe we could get it on 7th July for a standard release with 4th/5th July as ea...
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@Radoko34 wrote:Are they allowed to give the rights to make the licensed F1 game to two different game companies at the same time?
FOM could choose to do whatever they want once the current contract ends (subject to any long term clauses) but games companies will pay more for exclusive rights which I think is why this is how it tends to go with moet games. It's also probably more straightforward for the rights holder to just deal with a single games company to be honest.
It's on console where the lack of competition is the biggest factor I think as there's no alternative way to race all the F1 tracks, unlike on PC I believe. For me personally it's the tracks that more than anything else that makes me stick with the F1 games. I don't own GT7 for example.
@Ultrasonic_77I own GT7 waste off £70… Single player So boringly dull. Cafe books is almost as bad as F1 Life. If sophy gets fully implemented I may play it again. But like you I also hate pretend tracks no matter how good they may be
@ScarDuck14 wrote:@Ultrasonic_77I own GT7 waste off £70… Single player So boringly dull. Cafe books is almost as bad as F1 Life. If sophy gets fully implemented I may play it again. But like you I also hate pretend tracks no matter how good they may be
I watched some of the early gameplay when GT7 first came out and this was rather the impression I got. Graphically I thought it looked good but faffing about 'racing' pretty uninspiring cars for ages didn't really appeal. I don't have the time/energy to play games as much as I'd like so decided I'd stick to just being able to driving an F1 car when I did 🙂.
Pretend tracks don't really interest me. Driving the real F1 tracks is very complimentary to watching real F1 races for me - it gives me a little insight into what the real drivers are doing and whilst I'm under no illusions about the game's realism it is nice to feel I get to experience a little of what they do.
The single biggest appeal to me of the F1 23 game will be the Losail track. Las Vegas I have pretty low expectations for in terms of being fun to drive but it will still be interesting to try.
- @Ultrasonic_77 You speak the truth😁
- @Ultrasonic_77 Losail will be really interesting.. Modding in the 2020 car performance just for fun.. Checking how deadly the kerbs are made for traction and tyres.. But im hoping for more than just a track but that just my hope :/
@Ultrasonic_77 wrote:The single biggest appeal to me of the F1 23 game will be the Losail track. Las Vegas I have pretty low expectations for in terms of being fun to drive but it will still be interesting to try.
Can't be worse than Miami.- @dancrodrigues That’s a hateful track.
Do we have any idea or guesses about when we’ll get more info on F1 23? It’s been almost two weeks since they teased it. Surely more info is coming soon?
- @Radoko34 Have no idea. They are completely resistant to my powers of annoyance. No matter how much I plead, beg and pester. Actually quite impressive.
@Radoko34 wrote:Do we have any idea or guesses about when we’ll get more info on F1 23? It’s been almost two weeks since they teased it. Surely more info is coming soon?
Nope. And the longer we don't the less likely I think an earlier release than last year is looking. Somebody may simply have thought it was an easy and reasonable thing to do to announce that the game was coming when the 2023 season started.
We'll get more information when we do. No real point spending any time thinking about this until we do.
Fair enough.
Based on previous years’ experience, is there any pattern between the teaser and the more informative announcement, in terms of days?
- @Radoko34 Probably
Ok! And do you have an idea of what the pattern is?
@Radoko34My recollection is that we've usually had video teasers first recently. What we've had this year is something new. You have access to Google to do your own research if you really want to know, but you still won't know when the new game will come out any earlier than the rest of us. Even if we had an announced launch date it could be delayed!
- @Ultrasonic_77 Im personally hoping we get a teaser before the end of March. I don’t see us getting an early release unless we get it by then but i could (most probably will) be wrong
- @Cpayne32 As I’ve said before. As FIFA gets launched 2 months after the European season starts. I believe that is also what EA will look to do with F1. So that would be in May. But will that be this year I doubt it. But I’m purely guessing
- @ScarDuck14 Lets hope so.
- @ScarDuck14 Doubt its possible to do it reliably.. In F1 theres just too much to code differently for a new season compared to FIFA.. takes at least 3-4 races to gauge the car performances somewhat accurately which would be end of April this year sooo yeah.. Not that this would keep EA from trying and releasing a game with badly representative car performances..
- @Meza994 Exactly. I can see us getting an extra couple off sports updates a year
@Cpayne32 wrote:
@Ultrasonic_77Im personally hoping we get a teaser before the end of March. I don’t see us getting an early release unless we get it by then but i could (most probably will) be wrongDo we want an early release though? The last two years have frankly been pretty bad in terms of the bug situation at launch and both would have benefited from being released later but in a better state IMHO. I fear hoping for an early release this year is very much a case of being careful what is wished for... Although obviously I wouldn't complain if we got a great game sooner!
- @Ultrasonic_77 I would rather have a bug free game for sure. Hopefully this year we can get that… hopefully being the key word
@Cpayne32 There will be just as many bugs as before: The issue for me is that ALL bugs get fixed in a timely manner…. Bugs shouldn’t be in games. (Except maybe the occasional one. Nothing is perfect) But unfortunately this is now industry standard practice to fix and finish games post launch. Cheaper using us to find the bugs than paying for extensive QA.
Earlier into the real season the game launches the more games they will sell of the back off it. Currently launching the game halfway through a season when it looks like one driver will runaway with it and confirmation off that half dozen races later. Reduces the hype and excitement surrounding F1 and I imagine impact sales of the game.
- @ScarDuck14 Couldn't agree more. They need to go back to having the YouTubers and select players testing regularly because they didn't really do that last year and clearly it had an impact.
What I think would be best from the perspective of most players would be a closed beta test that happens long enough before launch for problems found to be addressed before the game is actually released. I don't expect this to happen based on the last couple of years but I do think it would help. Recent games have had many issues at launch that were identified during beta testing but hadn't been fixed.
- @Ultrasonic_77 Yeah but i think over the years the constant leaking from beta tests has kinda meant its not viable.
@Cpayne32 wrote:
@Ultrasonic_77Yeah but i think over the years the constant leaking from beta tests has kinda meant its not viable.I agree that's been an issue, although probably not a major one to be honest. Perhaps I'm being naïve but I wouldn't have thought the limited leaks the last couple of years have negatively affected sales?
A more limited beta with people that could be trusted would still be beneficial IMHO.
