I want to buy the old F1 games!

Some of those old games will not run on today's hardware and operating systems

One of the reasons could be that they were CM products and EA decided their end of life now.

Another reason might be that you'd realise old games are better than new ones so you'll play those instead of new releases 😉

And as @Antic3 wrote, some games do not support new HW. I tried to play older games (e.g. F1 2011) on Steam with T150 wheel and it was a bit struggle to set everything up. And some games still crash quite often due to HW/SW problems.

To make them available, they would probably need to spend some dev resources to port them onto new HW (PC or consoles) properly which takes resources away from development of current and new game releases.

"Some" it's not a clarification and "some" like f1 2018 2019 2020 2021 run just fine on today's hardware and OS.

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@thugz0rz wrote:

"Some" it's not a clarification and "some" like f1 2018 2019 2020 2021 run just fine on today's hardware and OS.

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By "some" I meant the earliest games I was able to obtain, i.e. 2011 - 2015. I play on PC and Steam and drivers were the usual problem, main issue was their compatibility with Win 10.

I also had a problem where T150 wheel setup had been "forgotten" between game restarts so I had to set it up for each game play.

Playing F1 2016 onwards, I haven't experienced any issue so far.

Hola que tal acabo de comprar el formula 1 2019 usado porq nuevo no se consigue pero nose puede jugar estoy re caliente ya que quiero jugar con los autos viejos y el modo de senna en ps4

@Polaval 

Sorry, I had to use Google Translate so not sure I understood.

I play F1 2019 on PC(Steam) and it works just fine.

Do you say you have an issue to play it on PS4? You say you bought it second-hand so my guess is you have CD for PS4 version, right?

Agreed.

I think Codemasters / EA assume it will force us to buy the latest versions instead, as they are the only ones available.

But it seems more likely to me that there are many people out there who would/could NEVER spend £50+, but would still be willing to pay 15 or 25 for an older version.

On top of that, it's pretty clear that those who can afford to buy the latest version are usually the ones who buy it EVERY year anyway, so again, no sales lost there.

And yes, I know that older games sometimes cease to work with new hardware, but I am still playing the F1 games back to F1 2012, so it's pretty lame to remove them when they still function. Maybe they are just too lazy to  keep 'housekeeping' them to keep them running, but each time they remove one, they are removing the history of the car shapes, rules, circuits and drivers from the collection.

They have recently even removed f1 21 from the ps5 store not sure why. Anyway I managed to get f1 2020 for £2.00 from cash converters the reason I went with 20 is I have good memories from it and is one of the best reviewed.

That's a good deal. I thought a used dvd would not work if the serial number had already been used? (edit: wait, I guess you are talking about the PS version, not pc, so you are probably able to use a second hand disc).

I'd like to find pre owned F1 '13 and '20 cheap, but I wasn't sure they would be useable if they've already been installed previously.