I mean if you have some triple screen motion rig with a dd wheel and 10 spare rims and upgrade your computer every year then sure But just getting the content id want would roughly cost me as much (unless they have mass discounts or whatever, but even then theres always the subscription thatll come on top of just the content) as ive spent on hardware over the past 10 years, wouldnt exactly call that peanuts
It doesn't really work like that though. You can get away with having very little content and just build up as you go along. Commit to a car/series (or two) and go from there
Sure you can "get away with that" as you say, but i sure as hell aint paying 100 bucks a year for a subscription just to be limited to a couple cars and a handful of tracks. Iracings just not happening for me
For me, at the moment, it definitely isnt. But theyre doing quite well so therell be plenty of people whod agree with you there
Yeah sure, each to their own. It's just a reply to the "iracing is expensive" comment that comes up everywhere. It isn't. It's more expensive than something that's free, for sure, but if it's a service you want you use multiple times per week then it's great value. People pay for way more for netflix and similar and 99% of the time they aren't using it.
Guess it ultimately comes down to how you look at iracing/ what you compare it to. If you look at it as a racing sim among other racing sims (as i do) then it sure as hell is a lot more expensive than any of the others. If you look at it as a service thatll get you multiplayer sim races at any time then there isnt really anything to compare it to and so its price doesnt stand out like that and everybody just has to decide if theyre willing to pay whatever they charge. But thats about as kindly as i can look at their pricing
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I used to like Ir from the first try. Nice quick online, oval racing is quite fun (but not legends), servers that saves your "offline" test drive lap times, quite clever ai (not only driving with bots, but it's rolling start procedure etc etc.. But then i got bored a little. Whataver it some random lags, when during online session opponents car apperas/dissapers (but it was just a few times), or it sounds of tyres, some cars have quite bad visual cockpit, tcr there really have there strange characteristics. Its unrealistic grass/sand surface. Some says it has rin, but car i bought there does not have rain tyres for some reason, but they do in real life. So in general i enjoued it a bit as i did in ams2 for a week or two. ir has V8 SC series.....but after all i won't continue sub to Ir. Hope AMS2 will fix its physics so can enjoy V8 SC there instead. RRRE long live!
What a funny tiny little number behind all that "Bla blubb iR is sooo outrageously expensive, how dare they hgrmpffff " When did you drive it last time ? Sounds like many moons ago when the Bathurst jump was a thing lol... Oh boy things have changed big time
hellO! have been playing iracing during this month. Was curious and was testing it with RRRE and GT7. In iR when you go off the sand (Laguna seca , Suzuka), car dont even have an allusion for reducing speed, but just continues to go over the sand and jumping as in a some solid texture, while in rrre or gt7 the car actually stops on a deep sand, and significantly redices speed on ordinary sand boonker. Yes of cource its not about going on the sand, but race cars do go off the track sometimes, and i guess it should be simulated. Other thing, according to ir comm, is outdated free content, that has some outdated physics or something. Well, untill it is in the game, why should it be so? I also bought few paid cars. Was really trying hard to like the sim, and it has some positive moments. But for me, more negative. I wont describe much. But i guess, it's impossible just after 5 laps to set lap time faster then real pro driver in qualy on same car in real. And for some cars its opposite, the car just does much slower compared to irl onboards. So, for me, it has some simulation process, good damaging model (really really good), good ai and basically clever engine. But for some small features and some physicswise moments, it's very controversial. It's not a trolling most, but honest feeling from the sim i had
You pay this and can use all cars and tracks? No, you can't. From what I understand, people complain about prices for content, not just subscription alone.
It's only the people who don't play it that complain though, and there are thousands that do play, at all times. True, the costs are higher for content than on RR for example, but not to the point where they are unaffordable, especially if you are already invested in the sim.hobby with all the hardware that it entails.
I don't get your point. "There are many people who pay it" doesn't change the fact that iRacing is much more expensive that any other sim if you don't cherry pick the most convenient examples. So this here is pure strawman, nothing else: Then, affordability is subjective, not everyone who does simracing has thousands dollars worth of hardware. Sure, you can always just stick to free content or buy one car and a couple tracks. But in other sims you get many more content for the same price. I get that their service is unique and good, but that's what subscription is for. What about content then, is it better as much as its prices are higher? I would say no.