The new and wonderful world of Simracing...
Jun 27, 2008 22:23:28 GMT 2
Post by Administrator on Jun 27, 2008 22:23:28 GMT 2
If you add that there is NOTHING out there competing at iRacing's level, it looks like it has a really nice future.
How many people do you think are out there willing to spend a lot of time (and money) to be able to run some quite obscure racecars on a (maybe) highly accurate simulation ?
Taking the number of people that quit any online racing league immediatly as soon as it becomes even a little more sim by using mods that don't provide jump-in-an-be-able-to-compete-for-victory-without-even-having-to-workout-a-setup cars ... considering the "popularity" of such mods, I rather doubt it's that many people, that will have much fun running what iRacing offers. Especially if it's a highly accurate simulation.
And that iRacing stuff is about online racing only, where you don't get quick happy success by beating stupid AI cars and imagine yourself as hero race driver that competently and successfully runs 500hp cars - the most people will get their ass beaten over and over at iRacing. Unless they practice as much as the hotshots (and be able to spend that much time on practicing). And I wonder how long that will take to turn first hooray into frustration and membership cancellation
It's one thing to demand more and more real physics - and quite another to stand it's results
Which is why I'm really curious about what success iRacing will have
And I'm honest enough to say I don't press thumbs that this will be a success story, as I don't like their business model at all, no matter how great their sim will be
It was definitly great performance from the spanish team in all their games - different to what the german team did show at times (1x great, 1x ok, 3x "average at best" and 1x rather bad)