Behind the Scenes // Building the Circuit of the Americas 

This is 5 years old but its still fuckin stupid. They charge 11-15 dollars for tracks and cars while other games just make you pay 60 bucks and give you more content, most of it also laser scanned. Its expensive and always will be expensive, specially with cars that were released years ago but they still sell them at the same fuckin price.

@@R0ndras iRacing is more of a video game service than just a $60 dollar game. I don't know of any game that constantly gets a major update every 13 weeks and then some. So I'll take your logic and apply it to 60 bucks price point. iRacing v1- $60... 13 weeks later iRacing v2- $60... another 13 weeks later iRacing v3- $60, and yet again 13 weeks later and you'll be getting iRacing v4 for another $60. So for 4 releases of iRacing on the year will total you $240. You are right, that is expensive but at the end of the day iRacing is a business and businesses need to make money or else they would fail. There are incentives to racing in official series too, you can earn iRacing credits for use towards a purchase of a track, car or subscription to help your budget more.

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ajsg09 Why not?

***** No disrespect intended...but you sound a little bit like a fan boy. Your claims are all subhective and non specific. iRacing is by far perfect...as is ams and the others. Every one of them fudges a lot more of the physics than you think they do. The amount of calculations needed to fully simulate a racing car on a racing track is beyond mind boggling. Each sim very roughly approximates these calculations; some sims get it closer than others, but than again...how many of us would ever know the difference anyway. Computer gaming is a very subjective experience to each of us. That's why when people like you come on here and rant how one is so good an another so bad, serious game enthusiasts have nothing of substance to take seriously; hence the not so appealing term "fan boy". As far as laser scanning goes, yes iRacing is not the only one who does it, they are just the only ones who do it to the level of accuracy and attention to detail as they do, as you said, because they have the money and man power to do so. I think the ffb kind of suck in iRacing, but I also don't think they are amazing in Automobilista either, as they sacrificed a lot of feel at the higher forces in order to gain near the dead zone...but if I had to pick one for ffb it would probably be AMS and RaceRoom, as iRacing kinda sucks and AC has almost no feel near the middle. While you're comparing crash physics I think you're confusing iRacing with Assetto Corsa because crashing in AC really is like bumber cars. Hot lapping is fun, but for real racing the most important realism element is the other drivers, of which Ai will never fully match because Ai doesn't have an ego that gets bruised when it loses, and that's the real drive behind why racer's race. Fan boys will always be around though, as their's is the best and the world needs to know about it because perhaps they weren't properly breast fed by their mothers as a child...who knows.

AC needs to work on their sounds, especially the tire squealing, as well as the ffb near the dead zone, which sucks. I've played RaceRoom, rFactor, AC, Project Cars, iRacing, Automobilista myself...in a pursuit to find that one that does it all right, and none of them do...which I already said in summary previously btw. Debating on which is the best is a waste of time really. There are pros and cons to each. iRacing is way too expensive as it's kind of a "click" to be in the "club" kind of thing, but its currently the only one with true multiplayer the way it should be, so you pay a premium for that. I personally think iRacing has the best tracks out of any of them, and AC has the best looking cars; AC physics, good but not as good as AMS. So I guess it depends what you're looking for out of a sim on any particular day. I really like RaceRoom but it has random stability issues on my system which isn't worth the pain in the neck so I dropped it. I find myself wanting a little something more or different from them all, and they are all just games anyway, with more of a marketing ploy that makes people believe they are simulations of the real thing. They got a ways to go for that.

As long as people are buying content and re subscribing your point holds no water or relevance to iracing themselves does it? So the flaw is rather in people's perceptions of iracing being "real" racing. They got an angle on the marketing of the whole iracing concept which is why they are now making so much money at it. If you ask me it's a mix of genius and pure greed, but hey; that's any big company for you these days so par for the course as they say. I personally am about to drop iracing now that I am gradually awakening to the sleight of mind they do so well. It's almost as if paying such a high cost for all the cars and tracks gives the perception that they somehow hold more value, almost as if you're actually paying to rent a real car and go out onto a real track..hence their catch phrase "as close to a real race car as you can get without actually getting in one". Who says, iracing? lol I think what they really mean to say is that it's as close as you can get to being on the real track, and perhaps (visually) being in the real car, but when it comes down to the rest of it (physics, sound, effects) of the cars themselves, not so much I don't think.