Communities and the re-activation

No, you cannot auto update the sim but like most software you can manually download the updated software and install it so you are not behind.

There doesn't appear to be an update.exe, patch file so you have to download the whole rflite install. No real issue for me either but I am hoping to get confirmation that I can install it directly over my existing install and not lose my settings, mods etc.

 

Same here I need to just update to the new build, I do not have time to mess around doing a fresh install even if it is the lite version. ISI please make this possible, if some of us enjoy the newer builds then we may renew our subscription.

 

Yes you can afaik, copy your UserData and Packages folders just in case.

 

What you looking for? There are changes mentioned, mainly the rate but also some other things that haven't been detailed yet.

No, not strange, and really shouldn't be confusing. If you read what the site says (and was stated on this forum a number of times) you'd know auto update is part of the online services.

 

Are you sure? Reads to me like why bother joining a league if you can't win!
That's why I wrote I was surprised by the comment.
Maybe I was wrong but reading it now still reads the same to me.

 

In the context of your post that he quoted, it struck me as an ironic dig at what was being said that you had replied to - so in agreement with you.

 

Back to the numbers in servers point;

Through my community I've run iRacing series now for just under two years and about 2-3 months a go decided to expand on to rFactor 2. In honesty, the numbers attending are almost exactly the same on both services.

With regards to the re-activation, people have odd rationale for not doing it. They enjoy rF2 but think it's a rip-off to pay $12 a year to play it online.....then go over to iRacing and pay them $99 for two years service as well as more for all of their content. This isn't a post just to bash iRacing, as I am paid up there for over a year and also near enough 100% content owner.....

I just wonder if this $12 a year and the benefits of it to ISI and rF2 as a company and as a product are not communicated well enough? I personally saw buying lifetime as my way of investing or rather supporting the product and it's further development. rFactor 2 seems to be completely saturated with misinformation in the wider community and it baffles me as to why. Tim is so active and always posting to clear up things, seen him on social media doing the same. I do as best I can, as do others.

I don't know why, but rF2 isn't seen as good value at $12. It puzzles me.....

Sorry for the long post, I kind of just went off on one....

 

Because it runs on dx9, isn't on steam, doesn't charge for DLC and it actually is rf1.5 and blablalblablalblablab

Now seriously, IMO it's too cheap. They should charge like 30-50 bucks or more a year than people would shut up or just pay.

 

Yeah ok. So he was being sarcastic (tongue in check.) I did try to see it that way. It's hard to read the written word in it's correct context without description. When the spoken word is easier by tone.
I think if people tried using description a bit more there could be far less misunderstanding.

 

I did not know this, I have been too busy to read the forum and site recently, but now I know and it's truly a wonderful thing.

Thanks for taking the time.

 

Nope. I didn't. Here is your point to which I was responding. Nothing more

 

You do know that when someone quotes you, it doesn't automatically mean they disagree, right? Feel free to think about that in the future.

A lot of times, someone might quote you and, you know, maybe make a little comment in agreement. Wink wink.

 

You can update, just not through our auto update servers. Download the Lite installer.

 

We're talking about it, as we do with any feedback, but currently you cannot auto update. A fresh install *shouldn't* be required.

 

It seems your Australian to English translation service is working very well.

 

lol, that is a genuine marketing tactic I studied in college, but I don't think it's very nice. Haagen Daas ice cream did it to appear to be a premium ice cream, and yes it's happened in subscription based software as well. Price it higher, and people genuinely have a higher respect and appreciation for it, they'll even more vigorously defend it - as they are financially invested. It's like expensive face cream, women will go out and buy it, rather than a no-name brand with the same ingredients.

 

It isn't recent, it's said it since before rF2 was available to the public. I just think people forgot, which is fine. lol

 

Easy:

CRACK

And im not talking about some drug which drivers use to become rf1 addicted
I bet something around 80% of actual rf1 users didnt bought the game. If suddenly RF1 matchmaker denies cracked exe from joining servers you would see even less people there.

Make some rf2 crack that allow online racing and you´ll start to see tons of people in servers. Absurde but true.

 

Good and important point that I missed!

 

Haagen Dasz is also from Brooklyn, NY, only named that way to have a Swiss/Austrian chocolate appeal.