F1 Lyfe shows lack of customer knowledge

yes, very true. They just should have used their great F1 render for the menu. I used it to patch that useless F1 Life scene out of the game and it looks stunning. No effort better visuals. More time for the devs to focus on topics making the game better.

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@Jackosaurus117 wrote:

F1 Life also takes literally nothing away from the rest of the game

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Time and resources used on it at the cost of being used on another new feature or further improving the other features?

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@Ultrasonic_77 wrote:

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@Radarkasten wrote:

Personally I really hope, that I can disable that lounge on main menu, starting the game and seeing random dudes staring into the windows of a super car..... that is definitaly NOT what I want to see in an official F1 product. I will reconsider pre-ordering F1 23 next year, won`t be a no-brainer again for me.

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I'd say the chances of being able to do that are essentially non-existent, in the same way I've had to keep moving past the oversized Braking Point option in F1 2021. 

I think pre-ordering games is a bad idea for consumers, that only makes it more likely for games developers to release games that realistically should have more testing and bug fixing prior to release. This is an industry-wide issue.

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It might have been better had EA not decided to shrink the pool of bug hunters to almost nothing, starting back in 2019, as part of their multi-year campaign to abuse their staff to maximise their profits. Then when they acquired Codemasters they promptly sacked most of their internal testers (along with 95% of the Dirt and Dirt Rally teams), and cut ties with the external groups that Codies used to use. While I absolutely agree that pre-ordering should cease, there I think there is zero blame that can or should be laid at the feet of consumers for the decisions that businesses take in these instances.

Here’s what I would spend pit coin on if I had to. I shouldn’t have to, but would.

Liveries that look like they belong in F1 or modified liveries from historic teams.

The type of clothing my team personnel wear.

The badges for my team, especially historic ones like Lotus.

The firesuits my pitcrew wear and the helmet style.

In otherwords, things that would let me customize my team a bit more. Not stuff I flip past as fast as possible.

And really, I’d rather look at my trophy case than have a car parked in my living room. If I was going to have a car in my living room it would be the 1989 Ferrari driven by Nigel Mansell in the second half of the season or his 1992 championship Williams. Those were works of art.

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@AEF251 wrote:

Here’s what I would spend pit coin on if I had to. I shouldn’t have to, but would.

Liveries that look like they belong in F1 or modified liveries from historic teams.

The type of clothing my team personnel wear.

The badges for my team, especially historic ones like Lotus.

The firesuits my pitcrew wear and the helmet style.

In otherwords, things that would let me customize my team a bit more. Not stuff I flip past as fast as possible.

And really, I’d rather look at my trophy case than have a car parked in my living room. If I was going to have a car in my living room it would be the 1989 Ferrari driven by Nigel Mansell in the second half of the season or his 1992 championship Williams. Those were works of art.

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This gave me an idea.  Allow me to put copies of my car in different liveries in each room.  In one room I would have my car from the end of season 1.  Next room the end of season 2.  That would be a real F1 museum that I would want to see each time I play.  

That fact it appears in the main menu BEFORE what should be the main feature of the game is ludicrous.

It should appear last on that menu, so it can be TOTALLY ignored.

I don't want to scroll by it and see whatever rubbish it's telling me before I get to menus related to actual racing.
I don't want it front and centre of the home screen. This is an F1 SIM, not THE SIMS.

I just keep wondering, ‘How do I get these strangers out of my house?’

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@Apophis-STR wrote:
@Ultrasonic_77EA: "We want you."

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Must admit I have no idea what this post meant?

I gotta agree, in its present form it really adds nothing. The "super" cars drive like... yeah....the clothes? Hmmm. I do think the whole thing fell flat on its face. I wonder if they will remove it for F1 23? To actually make it work you need to do a few things:

1. Make it so we can walk in the crib.

2. Make it so we can actually go to the cars in 1st person, and open the door, get into them and then drive them to a track.

3. The clothing, shoes etc are just...bland. Certainly not worth the pitcoin.

4. Make accessing the clothing a proper wardrobe we can walk up to and interact with.

I could go on, there IS potential, but it's really lacking. Not enough interest to actually interact with it and like most other people I am just fast tracking to my career mode. Sure you check it out first time, same with the track music, not interested, it doesn't "fit" the game. Let's spend development recourses on making "REAL" F1 Life, seeing yourself actually getting in the car (F1 car) maybe be able to walk to it from your motorhome (where you can access all that other stuff) or even render the tracks complete paddock, motor home areas so when you leave the home to go to the paddock, garage, you can circumvent Claire by going down a back alley :D

In it's present form it just doesn't work.