Morning Racers! Hope everyone is settling well into EA Answers HQ, have seen some familiar usernames in the chats. I’d like to take this time to introduce you to @EA_Kent , who will be taking over most of the F1 Community Manager duties from myself after the launch of F1 22 alongside other members of the EA Answers HQ team. @EA_Kent brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise across a host of EA games and has over 3500 solutions offered on EA Answers HQ. He will also be receiving a full induction on the F1 project by me, so he will be fully up to speed on launch. He will also be joined by our Codemasters moderator icon and my Forum Championship team-mate (mostly so we avoid driving into each other every week – those who know know :P) @up100 who will continue to provide his excellent support and help across EA Answers HQ. For those who are interested, I am remaining with EA/F1 in a ‘Player First’ role within the developer team, so you can cancel the 'Barry's finally gone' parties you were arranging. I’ll still be occasionally visiting the forums, as well as other channels, and may well see you on track! I’d just like to say a short thank you to everyone I’ve raced with, talked to, laughed with, and worked alongside to make the games the best they can be. It's a genuine pleasure and a lot of fun. Remember, I'm not going far. I’ll be watching, always watching :P Please join me in welcoming @EA_Kent and the rest of the EA Answers HQ support team into the F1 community. The floor is yours…

Hi everyone, We're thrilled to have you here with us on Answers HQ! I know that many of you are coming over from the Codemasters forums, and it's cool to see a passionate, tight-knit community like this around the F1 series. I'll share some background on myself while I've got the opportunity. I've been working at EA since 2015, originally on the social media side with Twitter and Facebook. I came over to Answers HQ in 2019 to have a chance to talk to our communities more directly. Like BarryBL mentioned, I do also help out with other boards including Apex Legends, GRID, FIFA Mobile, and some others. I'm really excited to get to know everyone and for the future of the F1 community here on AHQ. You'll see some other EA faces helping out on these boards, so feel free to say hi and reach out to us if you need a hand. See you around the track!

Yeah, so far next-gen consoles have both had patches in the past 5 days, absolutely nothing on PC, and the game is just stricken with issues, no patch notes from codies either for any updates, the lack of transparency is worrying to say the least.

@mariohomoh not a corporate BRZ, but a personal one. May as well enter my midi-life crisis in style :P To answer your question, it's not 100% set it stone, but it will be a 'Player First developer' sort of role, where I take wider community thoughts, feedback and ideas and discuss these with the developer team to get the best F1 game we can to you. Seems a natural progression, and something I'm exciting to get involved with. Means that I won't be too far from the forums :P

Hey @Meza994, We'll look into getting a spot set up for suggestions. In the meantime you can always drop them at the General Discussion board.

@Isamu99 wrote: what about PJ? Is he still with you guys? Who? @up100 wrote: @Isamu99 wrote: what about PJ? Is he still with you guys? He is still around 🙂 PJ's responsibilities often lie outside of F1 (he was originally brought in to do DiRT Rally 2.0 for example), so seeing him on F1 22 forums may be more uncommon than on other platforms Correct. I a more of a behind-the-scenes person on F1, working on screenshots and the occasional video that you all get hyped about. Rally's my baby and that's where I'll be visible most (I run the EA SPORTS Rally channels), however community management isn't my focus right now.

New Community Manager | EA_Kent | EA Forums

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LSKone
3 years ago
Hi! I'm very happy for you and I hope that you will thrive in your new role soon! I also fully expect you to show up on Fridays from time to time 😉
Welcome @EA_Kent ! Surely it's not an easy role to fit in. The F1 Community was lacking any real community management up until Barry somehow showed up in 2019 or 2020.
Barry was, and I think still is, a vital bridge between the core-community and the developers - something that was completely missing before he came in imo.
So yeah, welcome again and, hopefully, see you in the game soon 🙂
SteveJackson
Retired Hero
3 years ago
@pawel567 wrote:
@EA_Kent Welcome very warmly
Is it possible to write private messages to you (I have some questions) because at Barry's place it says: Due to excessive traffic, DMs are disabled and personal profile posts will be checked for this user"
🤨
Like anyone deserves a hotline....
ScarDuck14
Legend
3 years ago
@BarryBL 😭😭😭😭😭😭🖖 (to upset for words)

@EA_Kent Welcome I bet you will be SUPER🦸‍♂️

hope bazza informed you that I am the rock that these forums are built on. Thus I have free reign fo say what I like without fear off punishment 🥳😛
Des0xyN
3 years ago
@BarryBL @EA_Kent Great news! More people to communicate with about the whole franchise and the game 🙂
Nellix82
3 years ago
@BarryBL I'm just in this forum I'm an Italian because my English is sorry but it's interesting what developers are participating in a full-elite online championship some advice I hope can return useful for better development in the future.
Monzstar83
3 years ago
@BarryBL thank you for all your efforts. Wishing you all the best in your new role: and am glad EA have a knowledgable person such as yourself in a ‘player’ role, which I think was missing in the dev cycle previously.
Welcome @EA_Kent , wishing you all the best in your role also 👍🏽
gundevilNL
3 years ago
Thanks for all the help the last few years and hoping to see you around in the forum. And welcome kent
EA_Kent
Community Manager
3 years ago
@mariohomoh

@EA_Kent please state your top 3 picks for the 2022 season, your top 3 favorite drivers and whether Hamilton should be forced to [CM - family friendly edit].

My top 3 for the season would probably be Verstappen, Leclerc, and Sainz. My personal favorite drivers are Perez, Yuki, and Lando. As far as the last question, I'm not one to judge. 😃
EA_Kent
Community Manager
3 years ago
Hi @pawel567

@pawel567 wrote:

@EA_Kent Welcome very warmly
Is it possible to write private messages to you (I have some questions) because at Barry's place it says: Due to excessive traffic, DMs are disabled and personal profile posts will be checked for this user"

While my DMs are open, we get a lot of messages and it's not really feasible for us to do one on one help in direct messages. If there's something you need help with it's best to create a thread, and I or one of the other EA folks can take a look.
pro3377
3 years ago
Nooo Barry☹️. Thanks for everything you've done. You've been amazing. Welcome Kent.

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