I'm gonna go with the yearly subscription anyways. ISI is doing a great job and I want to support them for however long it's needed.
Austrian libertarian school is well worth a read imho beeing a real alternative to socialism and keynesiatic capitalism wich both lead to the same result. Sorry for OT.
Sim racers need to decide just how much they want their hobby to develop. Whenever there is a release, a beta or feature update sim racers seem to be the most demanding of consumers. Wanting ever more features, more content, faster development. Expecting corporate levels of PR and perfectly tested software. When it comes to paying for their beloved software they want super deals and discounts. Free would be perfect. The biggest risk for the sim racing community is a shrinking of the numbers of developers prepared to work on the genre. Financially it is already marginal hence we tend to see enthusiast teams who really want to produce racing sims. Some while ago Gjon stated that "it would be very difficult to keep a development effort going on sales of the consumer version alone"... If we want great sim racing products then we have to accept that we will have to pay for it. Given we don't have many releases a year like fps titles and the replayability of racing sims they represent fantastic entertainment value.
You are right, of course. I was asking for a little discount on the lifetime membership for those who trusted ISI from the beginning. I know no one asked us to do this, but it would be nice. There is no flame in my posts, it's just my opinion. Money is already saved
You forget about price psychology. That's what happens to LFS and Iracing the two extremes there. One beeing to cheap to be really respected as deserved and the other one too much respected for beeing expensive. But it works because there are people with different mentality and beliefs. Perfect would be making a sim as modular as possible, just beeing transparent as developer. Laserscanning costs x, you pay for it you can have it, if you don't need it then you can happy without it for example. I'm sure that there would be many people willing to pay for having no limits in simracing running a RF pro like version in their leagues and not having the feeling that there could be done more than actually is done. May the feeling be reasonable or not doesn't matter there. RF2 will strike like a bomb, but without any limit it could be heavenly divine.
The extra six months in the yearly one is the benefit. Obviously if you go with the lifetime, there's no 'reward' of that kind.
What I mean is that if you buy both now, there is no extra 6 months you can get on the lifetime, lifetime is lifetime.
I posted this in the other thread but it deserves its place here: I'm gonna get shot down for this but I think the Lifetime membership should be more than what was in those screenshots, seeing as rF1 has lasted so long (5-6 years at least) and the fact that ISI are supporting RF2 after release for longer (so they say) than rF1, I reckon Lifetime should equal to 7 or 8 years of a Yearly Membership Plan....so therefore roughly £100 (thats 8 years worth at £13). Which still comes out alot cheaper than other games who charge full whack every year for bascially the same thing. FIFA/PES for example you pay £30+ every year, thats £240 plus over 8 years...see what I mean!! Go on Gjon, hike that price up!!
wow.. relax kid..I suppose world crysis didnt touched u.. Easy answer for u would be if u like isi for whatever reason donate them. There are people(simracers) with no jobs or lost their jobs with crisis and playing sims for relaxing and not thinking about their problems. Im excited too but i dont like the situation that seems every company is usings...started by iracing.. For me the 65 euros are a lot for u maybe nothing..but calm down with that numbers u posted cause there are people who make months to make that money and u posted them like its so easy to have them.. And a question to Tim,if we buy the 34 euros would be an option to buy the other 30 euros(in future) so we can have lifetime or if we buy the 34 euros we will pay "forever" the 10 euros for each year? (IF these numbers will be true) Thanks Edit:sry now i saw the same question with another one above...
43(game base)+13+13+13+13+13(about 5 year)-15(a little discount on lifetime, i hope ) = 93$, so about 90$ for a lifetime membership. Next, lifetime membership cost will be probably reduced each year for factor that meet years left to "end" of product. Additional, the buyer who will for first year buy 1 year fee and then will be buy lifetime membership, will be probably paying reduced price for one year or even more.
and thats why a yearly plan is the best option for those with low payed jobs or no job at all! just $13 a year is just about right for them, I just think ISI need to make sure they get the Lifetime price dead right, if they fall short it could hurt them in the future...and it it hurts them it hurts us all the same! Dont think you fully understood my post anyway but nevermind!
