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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ScarDuck14
Legend
2 years ago
@Cpayne32 Think it will be earlier tbh. Even as early as May
Radoko34
2 years ago
April 25th Champions Edition Pre-Order, April 28th Standard Edition.
Cpayne32
Hero
2 years ago
@ScarDuck14 I think if it was May then id expect more details like next week or the week after.
Cpayne32
Hero
2 years ago
@Radoko34 Wait really? Where have you seen that
Radoko34
2 years ago
@Cpayne32
Just a friendly guess. 😊
Cpayne32
Hero
2 years ago
@Radoko34 Ah okay. If it was april that would be insane
Hempyjr
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
If i have to guess, i think it will be released earlier this year. If i am not wrong, in the last years the game was first announced/teased around end of may or start of april, now it was announced/teased at the end of february. As long as they provide a good game without lots of bugs and cars performance 90% reflecting real life, it's even better for me, at least it's released closer to the start of the real season. Performance adjustments can be done in next patches.
RickPhotosphere
2 years ago
release dates of the games in recent years:
F1 2015: 10 Jul (release announced on 26 Mar)
F1 2016: 19 Aug (release announced on 16 June)
F1 2017: 25 Aug (release announced on 17 May)
F1 2018: 24 Aug (release announced on 15 May)
F1 2019: 28 Jun (release announced on 28 Mar)
F1 2020: 10 Jul (release announced on 15 Apr)
F1 2021: 16 Jul (release announced on 15 Apr)
F122: 1 Jul (release announced on 21 Apr)
so in the last few years the game's been released in June or July, with the release date announced in March or April. Expecting the same for this year
dancrodrigues
2 years ago
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.
Ultrasonic_77
Hero
2 years ago
My prediction is that it will be released in 2023 🙂.