Automobilista 2 October 2022 Development Update

There’s always two sides to the story. With Roger Penske it’s always business, he’s not been successful all these years because he wants to piss people off. What I don’t like is the exclusive part giving MSG the right to say who gets to share the license. MSG promised the world, console game to get more people involved then a pc game that costs a lot more initial investment plus probably a lot more then irqcing was willing to give or anyone else.

 

It's unfortunate for Reiza regarding the actual Indycar but you just have to see what's going on in the Iracing forum… I mean…people who own the car cannot use it on the official tracks of the calendar. Imagine having spent quite a lot of money (the car is around 12$ and a track costs around 15$) and from 2023 on you are not allowed to use it on official tracks. I wonder if that also includes racing the AI or just for official Iracing races online.

 

But we all know damn well MSG is a fraud, we now know indycar upper brass was in kahoots with them the whole time, and honestly, I need to go throw up...

 

They are more fun, immersive for sure. I jump back in the ir18 @irwcing and I’m kind of bored. I do however want to race it still. I’ll probably check out rf2 and see how it is? With LFM I wonder how many race in North American in that platform, it’s a heavily European deal from what I hear?

 

I’m not going to give MSG anymore of my money and don’t think anyone should

 

Ai it’s you and Ai, as long as you don’t broadcast it. People spend more at McDonald’s a week then $27 lol

 

Someone gave them
$2m most likely big daddy parent company

 

That doesn’t mean they should have consumers

 

..and name it Indie-car!

 

And the share price has responded by falling to 2.5 USD, or 25 cents if we take the old value, so that´s like a 99% loss in value since they joined the stock market.

 

They’re hoping to grab the non sim people simcade, get people that love the racing. Kind of like iracing with their new console Woo “game

 

I feel about this similar to the Mick Gordon vs. ID Software situation, don't take it out on the plenty of good people in the IndyCar paddock for a dumb decision somebody higher than them made. There are still good people in the organization who supported sim-racing and love their audience. Completely blacklisting the series will just make it more likely to die off. We don't want a good competitive series folding, we want it to change.

If you want to make your displeasure known, petition them like Champweb is encouraging on Twitter. They clearly didn't factor sim-racing as an important part of their brand, and the overall fan base has shown otherwise. MSG is obviously a fraudulent company, but there are probably good people just trying to work a job through all of this. Basically, just don't buy the game, and don't give money to MSG.

 

Just trying to put a positive spin to this. I share your anger and frustration on this subject.

 

NTT / Penske just fired their marketing person, he may have been the one that gave MSG full exclusive

 

Nooooooooooooooo

 

According to Marshall Pruett, the one likely responsible for the MSG connection is one of the key members of the ownership group, not those who actually run the series.

Edit: I'm only echoing a statement from MP, take that as you will. Don't shoot the messenger.

 

You can´t blame them as MS parent company´s business model was the same - buy out all the competitors and trade on their names e.g. Autosport and Motorsport News. ACO and BTCC took the cash too and no one is boycotting them.

 

PPPPPEEEEEENNNNNNNSSSSSSSKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEEE

 

But they had 0 represention in sim racing at all, there's a difference. A crappy game is better than none at all

 

They bought their way in and are not the first or last to do that. Microsoft always do that as it is cheaper than starting from scratch.