Also remember you can EARN up to $10 a season (quarter) if you run in a C/D and/or A/B series. Do 8 of 12 weeks in a series and you get a $4 or $7 credit (D/C and B/A) - that $40 can cover a lot of the costs for the subscription - yes, you have to have purchased cars/tracks to be able to do this but after year 1 it is much more reasonably priced.
There is pretty much 1 reason to go for iRacing - you are serious about racing and want to race with others who are as well. Yes, there are prettier games. Yes, there are much cheaper games. But nothing gives you the depth of racing iRacing does with an incredibly easy to use multiplayer system. Yup, it's absolutely expensive but remember, you get what you pay for.
Would you recommend buying tracks based on the number of configurations you get? In my mind that means Im getting a better deal but if the schedules dont use all the configurations it may not make a difference.
The configurations mostly don´t matter. If you are after "just driving" then choosing those with most configs sounds great yes, and you could do it (for AI racing for example). If you are after a lot of racing tho (as in official/daily races) it is better to have a look at the content/series you are interested in and see if they share specific tracks on the schedule/across the series that you would like to drive. That way you can use a track multiple times per season, just with a different car. Hope that helps! - Rene
No thanks..... assetto corsa now has LFM! Just cancelled my subscription. 😊 Please, no need to bully someone just because they like one game more than another.
It's a brilliant business model if you don't mind scamming your customers out of their hard earned money. Yes it's my personal opinion but I don't understand why people are ok with it
@@RowdyBurnz It's not a scam though is it? You get what you pay for, the same with any other SaaS service. I do agree you should be able to play offline without a subscription, but other than that you are paying for an online service. When you stop paying you don't get that service. It would only be a scam if you paid for the service and didn't get one.
I see your point. I don't like the why businesses operate now that subscription services have become normal. I probably wouldn't call iracing a scam if you could play the content without have to pay for the online service if you don't want to.
just curious, how’s does safety rating work? i could have a bad race, get a 8x and have an increase of .1, and in a different race i could have almost no incidents and get the same points increase?
Typically it is counted as incident points in relation to the amount of corners in a race. You can get 8x in a 20 minute race or a three hour race, in a longer race you have more chance of gaining more points. That's why you may lose SR in a short race but gain it in a long race.
@@redluca56 my understanding is it also takes into account X amount of previous laps (including previous races). So your short 8x race after an endurance race with 0x may still give you more SR while the same 8x race after a series of 8x races may decrease it. It's not a super intuitive system. Just know that if you race clean in general your SR will go up over time.
If you don't want to spend a lot of money and don't like bad graphics Iracing is not for you. First you have to pay monthly. Then when you want to race online you have to buy cars and tracks almost every 2 or 3 days. Don't think if you spend money on a few cars and tracks you are ready to go for weeks. They are so smart to change cars and tracks every 2 or 3 days on their online servers so you have to spend again. The cars and tracks you bought before: no race in the list today. And when you stop your subscription and decide to come back after you have to buy every car and track again! Automobilista 2 and Rfactor 2, that's all you need.
Your general premise is correct; iRacing is expensive. But just a couple of notes. 1. Tracks change once every 7 days (it does change every day only during week 13) 2. If your subscription expires and you come back later you still own all your previous content. You have to have an active subscription to play anything (which is dumb imo) but your content stays tied to your account if you do reactivate your subscription. Personally, play AC or ACC on LFM if you don't want to deal with iRacing. I hear it's great.
Like a red rag to the iracing bootlickers 😂Wonder why they'd rather jump all over a fellow sim racer with some valid points, that actually benefit the consumer, on behalf of a multimillion dollar company that doesn't know they exist.
