So if I'm hearing you correctly; you ditched the game for a refund over F1 life and super cars? I'm with you; nobody wanted either of those or cared for them and they're simply a way to make more money from microtransactions but lets be honest; they have ZERO effect on the game itself and you can just ignore them. I have. I put the plain white F1 t-shirt on my stupid character, put whatever free furniture they offered into my space and I've never been into the mode again other than to unlock the supercars with the tokens I earned in no time. I havent spend a dime there and I most certainly won't because it has ZERO purpose.
That being said... just ignore it. The racing itself is still fun. I told myself if there were only 3 save slots again I'd be getting a refund unless the game was enjoyable. The challenge of the new handling model has proven to be a fun challenge for me. Overall I feel the on track action is better, even if only a slight improvement over F1 21.
The things though that you're saying led to your decision to get a refund don't make much sense to me though because you can easily ignore it and not interact with it. That's what I'm doing. Sadly though if the "visitors" to my F1 life place are any indication it does appear many are spending real money on pitcoins to purchse F1 life cosmetic content that serves no purpose.
Now I certainly agree with you on the neglect of the feedback of the community for things we actually wanted in the game. To give us F1 life and super cars over improving the actual core game itself is something that makes me really frustrated; so I'm with you on that, but I feel I'll still get enough entertainment value out of the game itself to justify buying still, even if it is only small improvements over last year.
@petro1319"To give us F1 life and super cars over improving the actual core game itself is something that makes me really frustrated; so I'm with you on that, but I feel I'll still get enough entertainment value out of the game itself to justify buying still, even if it is only small improvements over last year."
01. It is also the amount of bugs and lack of EA support during launch. Practically unplayable for me on wheel, as it crashes constantly. Because they failed to test it.
Bugs from earlier games creeping in, as well as bugs being reported weeks ago (ref: https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/I-Won-The-Race-BUT-FINISHED-7TH/m-p/11605839#M5121)
02. It also because I don't want to spend a ton of money (which it is for some) on a game that is largerly refurbished and has just a handling model update - I mean, that doesn't warrant full price, I'll wait it out then and see if patches do fix it, and then maybe I might buy it afterwards.
03. If it doesn't make sense to you, it does not have to. I am just laying my cards on the table why. And I say: money talks. If people want change they should send that message, otherwise, history will repeat itself like with BioWare's Massive Effect Andromeda & BioWare's ANTHEM; or the FIFA franchise(s).
Yes I can ignore the storefront that is F1-Life, but, more importantly, it constantly reminds me of how much resources went into it, and will continue to go into it designing items and skinning items for it, whilst they could have fixed older bugs (like the timing bug, the SC-bug, graphical glitches, animations that are repetitive); or could have invested in making career outstandingly better as well as the livery editor. Then, I will gladly pay €70. But now at this point.
If that is irrational to you, I understand. But this is my opinion & view which I wanted to share to send a message. I tried to explain above a bit more.
