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I can do best of Mazda Cup idiots, would be epic :)

500 iracing credits to be used only with content? common iRacing you could had done better than that!

I enjoyed watching those, for me the bottom two are the best ;-)

Bottom two are the best indeed.
Others are nice also. Only dont know why the first is in the contest. Nothing special imo.
Just normal camera’s are used and he put some music under it. But thats it.

So far, any time they give credits there is no restriction on whether they can be used for content or subscriptions. A credit is a credit.

But aside from the iRacing banners on the cars, how would you be able to tell the difference from another sim’s pickup servers? ;)

In my opinion they should give the people that make the videos cash not i racing credit.
 
They are so tight with users and there general pricing , though in some ways that makes it closer to real world moter racing.

On the other side of things they seem to be quite generous with advertising money, so long as you put there clips all over your videos.

This is the thing when I used to play i- racing in the end the crashing was just as bad as other games in pub’s , with people generally driving crazy and also many issues with users that play with a bad ping. 

I did have some good races but then evan after spending £180 or so I still lacked content to be able to do full road race seasons with just midrange cars , there whole pricing structure blows my mind.

I think its still the case that if you like sim racing then you are better off playing Rf1 or other games in private leagues like race to play and then put they money you save into a high end FFB wheel rig and screens , evan more so if oseta corsa has good net code out the box and plays anything like NKP.

Agree, bottom two are the best. My favorite is the last one since it tells a story about the game and gives you some background to step into it. So I voted for Alexander Horn.

More users for 3$ a month, probably undeniable. But remember, iRacing is the only sim that runs and manages all their servers and bandwith. This is not transfered to one admin as all other sims do. So the iRacing users are all paying the bills equally. Their is a minimum pricepoint to reach. More users doesn’t mean more revenu, if the price is too low.

You know why ECCI sell their wheels such a high price? Cause they can make the same amount of money selling 100 wheels at their price than selling 1000 at a lower price. And they save on 900 idiots emailing them not knowing how to set it up!!!! LOL

Then I will use the platitudes we like to repeat. As a Game iRacing is expensive, as a hobby it is just rightly priced. I’ve spent a lot in iRacing true, but the only “sim” expense I’m still pissed at is the 18$ I spent buying Shift 2 Unleashed.

How many of those bad races were the rookie series? The entire point of them is the awful drivers can’t race anywhere else, so they’re kept out of the good races.

There are always aggressive drivers and the occasional retaliation, but I’ve never seen someone go backwards on track or hit people just for the sake of hitting them.

Of course there would be more drivers at the lower price, but hearing them talk I doubt there are enough sim racers in the world to make it work at $3/month including content (you can get under $50/year already using all the special deals). They still say John Henry ‘has the most expensive membership’ and that they still aren’t breaking even let alone raking in profit. I certainly wouldn’t complain about those prices, though ;)

Yah I understand the economics of the situation. 

 Just cannot justify it when for the end user the quality of the service is only sometimes marginally better  than organized events in other games. ( on the road side)

People can justify spending any amount of money on things I mean some RC flight simulators cost £400+ and people obviously say well its cheaper than crashing my 3k chopper and a way to learn.

 I think the Crux of it is there mixing of high monthly fee + high track fees + high car fees , the whole design of the system segments the existing user base and totally kills driving with the less popular cars.   ( though from what I understand the service works well for Americans racing oval , its just shitty for uk users that like the road side of things with slightly faster cars )

 
I could maybe justify paying  $40 for a car and a one off yearly fee of $15 so long as I got to demo the car first , knew  that for my time zone I would get full grids and all the tracks were included. 

I know the laser scanning fees are high and in the end i-Racing is trying to appeal to 30-50yr old men that wont care about spending a $1000 on the software side of there sim racing hobby.

The only way I would approach I racing now is if I had $700 to blow and just told myself that’s how much it costs. ( but id put that into a wheel , screens and sim rig first)

Mind you if I was 45-50 or so years old I would just save up 20k and buy a radical for 15k and take it to track days. 

For the most part as good as the simulation in i-racing is , like the other simulators  it still plays like a game and is nothing like real life ( even if it is a valid training tool , but so is Rf2, NKP, evan Rf1)

Last one is really beautiful. All of these videos are really good but..my choice is the last one :)

Not sure why you think the price is why faster (and more difficult) cars are less popular. I’m interested what your line of thought is.

As for training, nearly every driver says it’s because the tracks are accurate, rather than the physics. That’s what they care about.

The music does its job in the last one. The best one for me.

For me, it’s the first video.  The only one that managed to make the whole thing appears less like a game/hobby.  The rest look more like videos slapped by iRacing hobbyists with little or no regard to visual/design aesthetics.  Still, the first video would benefit from a tighter edit and better choice of music (or perhaps just the noise from the cars)- 3 minutes is too long.

Im seriously considering getting into iRacing even though Im not a fan of paid subscription models, what’s the easiest car to get into?

 You have to start in the Rookie Series anyway

They were all great, but I picked the Alex Horn vid, because of the Tony Stewart and Junior bits talking up iRacing, especially Stewart saying you can crash all you want.  The contest is for the best iRacing commercial, and that one will bring the most people in.  Now they need to put some spots on the Speed Channel.

For the vast majority of the time, particularly when you get out of the rookie series, the public server racing is clean in iRacing and in no way can be compared to the public servers of other games. For me, I play iRacing for exactly that reason – clean pick up racing.

Didn’t like any of those videos. None of them push me to a purchase. I don’t know why. You should show those videos to get people into iracing, but a single Spa-onboard lap from stabiz is more interesting to watch and gives a better idea of what you are going to buy. If I remember correct, then last years videos have been better…

i’m pretty much new to sim racing and the number of simracing videos i watched is not so huge, however, while being a FPS hardcore player i saw a lot of movies with awesome editing. i think these iracing ones are quite far from being really great imo. i don’t feel exactly THAT racing atmosphere which i feel ingame, and those inscriptions to whole screen about how good iracing is make the videos look even more poor. it looks like authors are trying to persuade me to join iracing but i don’t feel a big wish: “sorry, not interested! :) at the moment the best one of what i’ve seen is the movie dedicated to Grand-Am series. not perfect, of course. especially when it comes to some camera movements.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=823BNPlyWcY