In danger of going a bit offtopic here, isn't a bit of a wierd contradiction that you work in the same company as THE guy who has been slinging sh*t at every product in this niche market before being bought by I an Bell? And I don't mean this in any offensive manner as I really respect you and your honest views, eventhough I might not allways agree with them. I know, working for a company doesn't rip you off your rights to have an opinion about something and we all need to pay our bills somehow, but it's funny how he tried to sell PCars 3 as the best thing since sliced bread while completely going nuts and basicly selling the afforementioned doom at every given opportunity, when it didn't affect is employer.
You'd have to ask yourself about the timing on PC3. I didn't know the story on that before either. PC3 ended up being more a spiritual successor to SHIFT, and that's what it probably should have been called. That wasn't the original design though.
On the slinging, well, I left MSG for a reason. And it wasn't to walk to where it was worse. You'll usually always see me make sure to say that MSG is full of talented and terrific people who want to do the very best, release the best, produce the best.
So is every studio in sim racing. Whether they deliver is often out of their hands, and MSG wasn't the place I wanted to be any longer.
The thing that I find annoying is that the sim racing community has lost touch to itself, completely ignoring why we are all here and that our passion for motor racing should drive this genre forward and not some YT celebrities. Because at the end of the day it's the silent guys at Kunos, Reiza, KW Studios/S3, S397 and all the modders who make this hobby what it is and not some guys going for clicks. This is the area where the hard work is done and then some guy who propably never wrote a line of code rips months of hard work into pieces in a five minute video. And don't get me wrong, I don't see an issue with having an opinion and presenting it on YT, but presenting every oppinion as a fact and hopping onto bandwagons. How people went completely overboard about the whole exlusive lisencing stuff, wich isn't just a MSG thing but connected to every major sim on this market is still beyond me. It went as far as some iRacing diehards making jokes about rF2 and the upcomming Le Mans game in their iRacing 24 hour stream and explaining how much better iRacing is, while they got their race ended at the exact same time in the last minutes of the race due to constant freezes and the game glitching. It's comical. If people understood that we are all in the same boat, this niche might be a better place.
I feel like sim racing went through a period where it was about collecting mods more than racing them and yeah, that is pretty sad. Lately it's been about tearing companies down, forgetting often about the people within them, working hard. There are far worse things send to the email addresses of companies (I answered emails at iRacing when it was suing people), tweeted at them (I read tweets to MSG while working at MSG) and commented about them (I still have a screenshot from what was said about me, how I should be fired and didn't deserve happiness, from when at ISI when absolutely nothing they were upset about was my decision) than I've seen in a YouTube video. I've had images of dead bodies emailed to me over a lack of an in-game feature.
That said, I made a decision with my last F1 franchise review to say not to buy it and it wasn't because it was worse than F1 22, etc, it was because of EA being EA and
me being done with it. It's very rare I will do that because, I'm sure, there are terrific people at EA as well. They're not responsible for the decisions of those above them. But I still chose to highlight what I felt needed highlighting... That's all these YouTubers are doing. Sometimes they are wrong, sometimes they're not.
I try to lift sim racing up, as a whole, going right back as far as it goes. Not everyone does that, not everyone can do that. Between the ages of 18-25 I was a complete a-hole compared to who I am now. I just want us to all end up in a good place, along with all our favorite sims.
. Might have been a great car to get some hype for rF2 when it needed it most. Same goes for the 1966 F1 cars that you mentioned. Looking back it feels like rF2 could have been GPL2.0. Atleast when I got first in touch with the sim it felt like it was perfect for these kind of cars and it's the first trailer that kind of set the tone for this.
