iRacing - price drops - class updates mid-season

#11

schooner wrote:

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Just find it curious you talk of iRacing so often in a negative light,
if you don't like it why not just move on?
Still so many seem to watch their every move so as to complain.

Andrew is our resident iRacing manic depressive member

The Skip Barber will lure him back eventually and he will have another
whirlwind holiday romance, be smitten with iRacing again, make videos to
express his love and spend a small fortune on monthly subscriptions
before going back to the cheap alternatives and getting a bit of rough
with Shift.

One of these days he will settle down and buy a two year deal and save
himself some $ but he still feels he needs to play the field

Cheers
Tony

#12

tony.rickardno (AT) spam (DOT) blueyonder.co.uk (Tony R) wrote:

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One of these days he will settle down and buy a two year deal

Wash your mouth out!

Seriously, all I probably really want from iRacing at this stage is one, single,
solitary permanent 'fun' server. Then I could support the project with a permanent
subscription, while -- most of the time -- racing in a relaxed way which suits my
temperament.

Until then, I anticipate my love/hate, in/out, iHokey-cokey to continue. If I'm
lucky iRacing may even start paying me to stay away!

Andrew McP

PS Shift is a very cheap date, and I haven't caught anything yet. Except maybe
oversteer-itis. I think a dose of penicillin should sort that out though.

#13

Andrew MacPherson wrote:

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One of these days he will settle down and buy a two year deal

Wash your mouth out!

Seriously, all I probably really want from iRacing at this stage is one, single,
solitary permanent 'fun' server. Then I could support the project with a permanent
subscription, while -- most of the time -- racing in a relaxed way which suits my
temperament.

Hosted racing will be here next season, whih should cater for varying
tastes all being well. We will see.

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Until then, I anticipate my love/hate, in/out, iHokey-cokey to continue. If I'm
lucky iRacing may even start paying me to stay away!

That would be like a newsagent refusing to sell you cigarettes because
you keep giving up and becoming an anti smoker for a couple of weeks...

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PS Shift is a very cheap date, and I haven't caught anything yet. Except maybe
oversteer-itis.

A bit loose?

#14

I'm just glad we have intelligent people like you to follow here.
meh

I've lost asswipe coount but i'm pretty sure it's over 1000 now.
meh

write meh on the wall.. meh.

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On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:47:06 -0700, Beckett <beckett (AT) work (DOT) invlaid> wrote:
meh...still not cheap enough to get me to join. The writing is on the
wall, iRacing will eventually fail and it is just a matter of when and
not if.

#15

tony.rickardno (AT) spam (DOT) blueyonder.co.uk (Tony R) wrote:

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Hosted racing will be here next season, whih should cater for
varying tastes all being well.

At $1 a race I'd be inclined to agree. I think $3 is the wrong side of discouraging.
But then that's exactly what it's supposed to be. Cheap enough that leagues can
justify the cost, but not so cheap that a mass outbreak of alternative racing is
likely to break out.

I may be pleasantly surprised though, especially in the first few weeks it's
available. And it's certainly a darned sight better than having no options at all.

Anyone up for a 1 hour race at Bristol in the Lotus? ;-)

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A bit loose?

I wish!

Andrew McP

#16

"Beckett" <beckett (AT) work (DOT) invlaid> wrote

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On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:29:21 -0700, "rcgldr" <rcgldr (AT) cox (DOT) net> wrote:

I thought it would take 2 to 3 years before drastic changes like this
would
take place. Definately headed in the right direction in my opinion.

Based on recent posts at RSC, the price drops are significant, yearly down
from $149 to $99, but without the credits. However, the content prices are
also lowered substantially, $12 to $15 now (versus $15 to $25).

The class updates will occur more frequently. I'm not sure how much
faster,
but apparently someone could advance to A class in a season rather than
it taking a year. This will allow some to skip buying intermediate content
that they aren't interested in, a secondary beneficial effect.

I also read that leagues and hosted servers are to be enabled sometime
during the next season.

I (and many others) are still hoping that once there's enough content and
progress made with the game basics, there will be a retail version of the
game being sold.

meh...still not cheap enough to get me to join. The writing is on the
wall, iRacing will eventually fail and it is just a matter of when and
not if.

And one day we all die. iRacing will probably moph into something else.

#17

"Andrew MacPherson" <mcp.andrew (AT) DELETTHISgmail (DOT) com> wrote

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schooner (AT) accesswave (DOT) ca (schooner) wrote:

Lotta haters that can't seem to just let go of iRacing...

Lotta defensive types who can't recognise the difference between
dissatisfaction
and hate. I still love the cars and on-track experience Kaemmer has
created. I
still dislike the service currently called iRacing because it lacks
sufficient
relaxed racing for my -- and many others' -- tastes. Presently I have no
choice but
to tolerate one if I want the other.

You want you cannot have - have a think about the term "relaxed racing"!

It seems you're on the arcade side of racing games.

#18

chocolate (AT) caramel (DOT) com.au (Byron Forbes) wrote:

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You want you cannot have - have a think about the term "relaxed
racing"!

I assume it's your turn to deliberately misinterpret what I say today? Is there a
rota I don't know about? ;-)

By my definition, every GPL race which allowed shift-r was a relaxed race. So are
all the 24 heures du fun races on iRacing.

Andrew McP

#19

dfg.myass@aol (David G Fisher's Left Testicle) wrote:

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And one day we all die.

And some of us are closer to our statistical chequered flag than others. That's why
I'm in a hurry for iRacing to have some more relaxed options. At this rate I'll
have arthritis in both hands, and no eyesight at all left before iRacing morphs
into something with more options for amateurs like myself.

There is, however, a lot to be said for seizing the moment, so you're right. That's
why I approached Shift with an open mind, and why I can't give up completely on
iRacing, despite my inevitable discomfort within the current restrictive format.

Andrew McP... one foot in the grave, the other on the brake pedal. Live slow, die
quickly! Or something like that.

#20

meh

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On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:12:00 -0700, Beckett <beckett (AT) work (DOT) invlaid> wrote:
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:55:37 -0400, GaryR <GaryR (AT) nospamforme (DOT) com
wrote:

I'm just glad we have intelligent people like you to follow here.
meh

I've lost asswipe coount but i'm pretty sure it's over 1000 now.
meh

write meh on the wall.. meh.

Cunt.