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 early release My reasoning for this is those dates coincide with the British GP which they have used for the last couple of years at least.If that was the case, how would people feel?

I'm not so sure of the line of thinking here. Both on what dropping the exclusivity clause would entail and what went on with FIFA.There's not that simple of math exercise like "we'll grant you the copyright for our IP for 'x' and if you want exclusivity on it it will be 'x' + 'y'".As it's been pointed out already, depending on the size of the market and the nature of the product (complexity mostly) there may not be enough of a projected return on investment for two competing products of similar depths to coexist. An exclusivity deal like this would actually have the indirect effect of maintaining the viability of the whole enterprise.Does this apply to Codies' F1? No idea. Have we seen another simcade or simracing title focused solely or primarily on an open wheel racing league with 10 teams competing on tracks all over the world for the Formula First World Tournament, with Nando Loris and Minimum Vertonghen? We haven't.Formula E is not a FOM asset, thus anyone could strike a deal with them and make an officially licensed Formula E game. Yet we've got nothing even remotely in the works as far as we can tell.Dropping the exclusivity would not necessarily lead to FOM making more money and two or more companies making proper, competitive F1 games. Could very well end with a few racing games with a F1 mode in them, and Codemasters pivoting to a Grid umbilical brother - we've already got supercars in it anyway 🤷♂️EA does not have the rights over football the sport. Their licensing agreement with FIFA goes back to the 90s and it grants them the right to explore the FIFA brand and the FIFA tournaments like the World Cup - with exclusivity.That did not stop Winning Eleven > Pro Evolution Soccer > eFootball from existing and competing. I'd argue that EA's exclusivity deal over the Premier League hurt Konami way more than their rights over the FIFA branding, but even that didn't stop we from getting a proper rival game for decades.There were enough football fans to justify that kind of investment in different games of that scale.Do we have the same with F1?I do not like the state of F1 games. I strongly dislike many of the franchise decisions they've made over the last years. However I am not so sure dropping the exclusivity and enabling another (most likely casual) F1 game in the market will increase the fun, increase the player base, and increase the revenue of everyone involved.This is F1. It is the epitome of open wheel racing, yes, but not the sole category in it. This argument is probably closer to "it would be nice to have at least two FIFA World Cup and UEFA Champions League games".Different markets.

@Ultrasonic_77that can happen only if the game is really unshippable, but really really unshippable. But then, we wouldn't have a beta if that were the case.I hope that the beta post was done to build up some hype for this week's trailer :DEitherway, it has to be this week or next week, for the Baku weekend.

Sorry to sound repetitive and meaning no offense at all but...I would gladly wait till July if the game was delivered in a better shape compared to last year's.

@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.

@realMisterJes How do you know it’ll be garbage? Also how do you know we don’t like pain? 😂😂😂

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dancrodrigues
2 years ago
@Ultrasonic_77 wrote:
My prediction is that it will be released in 2023 🙂.
And if - in any crazy conjecture - EA/CM say to us that they will skip this year release to deliver a helluva game in '24. Would you guys take it nicely?
I'm divided to be honest but I think I would give them a try.
Cpayne32
Hero
2 years ago
@Ultrasonic_77 Thats pushing it a bit 😂😂
Cpayne32
Hero
2 years ago
@dancrodrigues Honestly i wouldn’t mind that. Only issue is it has to be perfect
Ultrasonic_77
Hero
2 years ago
@dancrodrigues wrote:
And if - in any crazy conjecture - EA/CM say to us that they will skip this year release to deliver a helluva game in '24. Would you guys take it nicely?
I'm divided to be honest but I think I would give them a try.
Well we know this isn't happening, and to be honest I've posted before that there's basically zero chance of this happening IMHO. There's a certain guaranteed revenue from each new game that would just be thrown away if they did, and I just can't see how a game dev could confidently promise senior management that there would be a net financial benefit long term.
Also, with a game as unpopular as F1 22 I can't help but feel the dominant reaction if we were told we'd be sticking with it for another year would not be great!
dancrodrigues
2 years ago
@Ultrasonic_77 wrote:
Also, with a game as unpopular as F1 22 I can't help but feel the dominant reaction if we were told we'd be sticking with it for another year would not be great!
I can understand that but, on the other hand, the game as of today isn't so bad. I mean, not great definitely, but not so bad - at least its offline sections. I still would take it...
But your post made think of the online dudes, they're suffering big time.
ScarDuck14
Legend
2 years ago
@dancrodrigues This is one if not the only game that still focuses on single player games despite also having a large multiplayer community.

Codies have the numbers. They obviously show most who buy this game play single player.
mariohomoh
Retired Hero
2 years ago
@ScarDuck14 And yet we're still dealing with the same balance issues and the same overall gameplay loop for what, three games in a row?

Looking forward to play My Team past season 3 with a car that still handles realistically 🙏
ScarDuck14
Legend
2 years ago
@mariohomoh Should that happen it will feel unrealistic as my muscle memory is now hard wired
Meza994
2 years ago
@dancrodrigues It could be worse true but for some of us the game just NEEDS improvements in certain regards, be it the entire tyre temps/pressure/compound complexity for me, an actually realistic suspension setup with depth for Mario or just another deep dive up the rear from Bottas for our favourite duck😜..

As Mario pointed out its the exact same for 3 years now and actually in the least pleasant way of all.. I rather find myself playing F1 2021 or F1 2018 with more realistic dirty air (fully realistic is sadly not possible/working with the AI😩) and little more accurate car performances.. They just have a more pleasant and rewarding handling model while still having almost the same features😅
ScarDuck14
Legend
2 years ago
@Meza994 See this year it’s been Perez but he doesn’t ram my rear as violently as Bottas used to

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