Will you try iRacing?

[Dave Gelink]

Already have and unsure about it. Doesn't feel that special, definitely not worth the money you pay for it! Too few cars and too much Ovals also

[Mark Birney]

Unsure...

Mainly, the costs are way too high. The idea of a pay to play sim was shocking. Pay to play only really works in RPGs. I don't understand why they ask for so much. They could just raise the cost of the product itself, and cut monthly charges. Because the monthly charges on top of paying for tracks and cars ($15-$20!!) is outrageous. This is a cruel way of filtering out rammers. I hope they come to realise these issues, and support the little man. Other than all this, its is a good sim, although I can't see any real differences, the graphics are rFactor style, and there are too many American tracks (like, there are only 1 or 2 outside of America). The main complaint is you can't have fun with it. If you push hard, and you touch, not hit a wall or anything, touch the grass, and you get a Safety Rating penalty >

[Monan]

I really like iracing but it is extremely expensive. I'm building my rankings up from rookie hoping to get to a 4.0 safety rating to go late models and i'm getting close, great. Now I go to see the latemodels and realize that if I wanted to go that route I'd have to buy the car for 15$ and then the series runs 6 different tracks of which I only own one of. So that means 75$ worth of tracks and 15$ for the car just to participate.. then I need to pay the monthly fee. All of this with no yellow flags or pitting.
Great game but man, they need to stop gouging the sim racer.

[Richard Hamstead]

No pitting?

[Stephen Rogers]

Pay for content...lol what a rip off .. to many great sims to drive already..

but each to his own..

[Péter Bártfai]

It looks great in my opinion to have laser scanned tracks and very precise physics, and the racing system is also very promising I think!

But this is very very expensive, and I don't think I'll give it a try, especially cause I've already bought GTR Evo and will buy STCC, and I think I'll settle for the Race07 family for a long time! Only excuse will be the F1 game Codemasters working on, I'm sure it will have a demo, and if I'll like it, then it'll also come to my collection! At least they say they will make it a full sim, hope they think it serious!

[Dallas Willms]

I wish for the crazy price you pay per month that you would at least have access to everything in the game and not have to pay so much extra for addition content. Seems to be the way video games are going with micro transactions however...

I played it a bit at a buddies house who signed up for a month, loved the graphics, and seemed more realistic than other games I've tried, but don't think it's worth the premium you pay...

[Pat[fr]]

NO Don't find graphic good enought...

[Alex Maresta]

i think is soo mutch expansive.....

[rustik]

Thats MY GAME ONLINE -

RACING ONLINE:
1. rFactor
2. iRacing
3. LFS
4. GTR Evolution

SHOOTERS ONLINE:
1. Battlefield 2 /Real War, Nation of War
2. Call of Duty 4
3. Crysis

[Groover]

No, Why? I really don't have a problem with the monthly fee, but to also to have to pay for the cars and the tracks is a little bit over the top for me.

[George Mastrokostas]

Originally Posted by Groover

No, Why? I really don't have a problem with the monthly fee, but to also to have to pay for the cars and the tracks is a little bit over the top for me.

for that kind of money, IRacing should be as close as you can get in driving the real thing.
For that kind of money I dont expect it to be a little better than SimBin's sims. I expect it to be 10 times better.

[Ryan Callan]

I agree - it doesn't look or feel special enough to justify it's price tag and billing.

It might be a lot better in a couple of years time as they update it - but it's not a big enough step up to justify it's fee - perhaps this shows what an excellent job SimBin do?

[Ryan Callan]

Originally Posted by Péter Bártfai

Only excuse will be the F1 game Codemasters working on, I'm sure it will have a demo, and if I'll like it, then it'll also come to my collection! At least they say they will make it a full sim, hope they think it serious!

They said Race:GRID would be a sim....... It was awful. Codies haven't made a good game since the first ToCA Race Driver - I hope they fix that, but I'm not holding my breath.

[Wally Masterson]

I have tried it, but I think you need to be able to dedicate a lot of time to taking it seriously to get your money's worth out of the dollars you have to put in.

At the moment, it suits me more to be involved in one Racing Club race here, with a tiny bit of practice through the week.

[Marcin Wójcik]

Yes. I will try iRacing when i find more time. I think its very good sim and its no problem for me to pay monthly for this.

[Laurent Michel]

I have voted "maybe".

I will pay for 1 month subscription just to get the feel of this thing.

However I dislike the monthly "fees" and the additional costs of extra cars and tracks.

[Nigel Roberts]

I just voted already have and unsure about it, agree with others the price dosnt justify the experience, and also I had issues on first signup and found the customer service and attitude to my issue was extremely poor and just plain rude. Wasnt untill I emailed the back and asked for an address where I can email or post an official complaint to, before there decided to appologise and look my issue But I could have lived with that the main issue was I didnt feel like I was racing in any sort of organised league, and found myself stting staring at the online site for ages on end waiting for sessions to open. Sure I could have been practicing more, but by myself for another 15mins waiting for the session was getting a tad boring. everyone was raving about the skip barbers, sure they had very good physics, but I also beleive the FBMW and F3000 in Race 07' are pretty darn good also, not quite as good but a hell of lot cheaper, and again to me the difference dosnt justify the price. The fact they make you pay for the additional items I think is insane and I am guessing with the state of the worlds economy at presesnt they will have to give this another lookin very soon, the Aussie $ buys $.67USD ATM so Iracing just became a whole lot more expensive again.

The other thing too is I am glad SimBin have advised they are not interested in this approach and I am hoping other game developers arent either, so for me I guess I am hoping the sim racing community will make a sort of stand by not subscribing to this form of monthly rent a sim so other developers wont follow suit.

Also a WARNING to any members here thinking of subscribing to try it, iRacing have what I believe to be a very sneaky subsciption system/account management system on their online site. when you subscibe and pay with your credit card there is a box automaticlly ticked to resubscribe at the end of the month they claim for convenience. If you want to try for month and dont go and change this you will be trying for 2 months or 3 months or untill you check your credit card statement. I am sure there was a clause somewhere in the EULA, but its still sneaky.

[Laurent Michel]

Thanks for your review Nigel.
I didn't even knew about the "sneaky" account management system.


In my view that's a legal theft, no one ever bothers to read those readme files.

[Márcio Campos]

I liked the game, but just tried for 1 month, I dont get time to race in all simulators...

But it is an amazing game.

[Kevin Johnson]

its a maybe for me. the game seems to look pretty good but i think ill wait a little while for it to develop some more before i go jumping in.

[Mike Simian]

While I like the idea, I think the pricing scheme right now will hinder its
popularity. Really I think it should be close to free to start with and then once you get beyond the starter class the price should raise substantially, either that or you should get a lot more initial content, I get what they are trying to do, but I think its a little naive.

Anyway I would like to try it, It looks very good, but will I find enough to keep me going untill I get to the real content??

[Mitja Bonca]

It`s a great sim, but it sure need some more time to develop!!

[Valentijn Scholten]

looks nice, but it way too expensive. Especially for the occasional gamer.

[Richard Trange]

i WILL try a month but if there is nothing extra-super special i wont continue with it