Fair point I guess. Although of all the inaccuracies in iRacing and sim racing in general thats rather low on my list. The lack of a decent clutch model in iRacing is far more important.

FooAtari: Lack of realism. (”Oh, so you crashed out of the race Rubens? No worries, go run it again.”)

I don’t understand this. Can you explain? In iRacing you can’t restart. In most other sims you can. In fact it’s guaranteed in nearly every public server…

I think maybe he means the fact that after you crash out and get “towed” back to pits you can get back into the race. But you lose so much time its not particularly unrealistic. Anyways, thats the thing i can think of

UncleChuckle:
Well I won’t be keeping my subscription. Far too many reasons to go into here. To bullet point it:

I can’t argue with most of your reasoning, most of it is reasonable. But…

Lack of realism. (”Oh, so you crashed out of the race Rubens? No worries, go run it again.”)

I don’t understand this. Can you explain? In iRacing you can’t restart. In most other sims you can. In fact it’s guaranteed in nearly every public server…

Drivers as bad as, and worse in some cases, than public servers. (I realise this will change as I go up levels but I’m not prepared to put up with such pitiful driving standards to get there. Seriously I could write an entire essay on just one of the Lime Rock qualifying sessions I had.)

I’m honestly truly surprised by this. Maybe that was a result of the free trial that few took seriously. But when I started iRacing 4 or so months ago the racing, even in the rookie series was of a very high standard, it wasn’t even comparable to a public server. But then, the people there were paying for the sim and had a genuine interest in it…

Edit:
Having just read RSC it appears you suffered from the many users who abused the trial. Judging from the rest of your post I doubt a higher standard of racing would have been enough for you to consider iRacing worth while. However it is sad that the actions of a few morons has given you a negative opinion of one part of the sim, which isn’t representative of it. I 100% believe that if you had tried iRacing before the trial you would have a different opinion towards the standard of racing. However your car/track selection and cost issues would remain, so for you it’s probably not a good option.

Boring car and track selection.

Repetitive. (For free I can race hundreds of cars and tracks in other sims. Here I pay for the right to drive two cars on two tracks. Oh sure I can drive the other few tracks, but what’s the point, when I’m going to be forced to drive them repeatedly in the near future anyway? There’s no AI so it’s just hotlapping when I’m going to be stuck doing that anyway down the road.)

Lack of realism. (”Oh, so you crashed out of the race Rubens? No worries, go run it again.”)

Drivers as bad as, and worse in some cases, than public servers. (I realise this will change as I go up levels but I’m not prepared to put up with such pitiful driving standards to get there. Seriously I could write an entire essay on just one of the Lime Rock qualifying sessions I had.)

Overpriced. (Really? $20 a month for THAT? Two cars and two tracks to race? AND you charge for addons? iRacing: Fueled by Greed.)

To be quite frank, I hated it. I really wanted to love it as I like the idea of a virtual governing body as it were, but I just hated the implementation on almost every level. I find it sad that something so flawed is seemingly so popular, because it means nothing BETTER will come and replace it in what is already a niche market.

Then when you click on submit, it dumps you back to /membersite/SubscriptionChoices.do with no acknowledgement, no email, no nothing.

No iRacing.

unklepepper:
Also, if they cant get a real identification from someone using the free trial, well people would just keep signing up for free trials month after month without detection!

Bingo. Even logging IP addresses wouldnt get around this if the person knows what theyre doing.

Paul Kelly:

Pain, you can believe any consipiracy theory you want. I take it you believe there were six gunmen on the grassy knoll in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, too.

Funny you say that. I was at Dealy Plaza just 3 weeks ago. Six gunman? No. But I don’t believe Oswald acted alone.

I never said it was a conspiracy but it is still a marketing ploy. Just like mail-in rebates. Manufacturers offer those because a percentage of consumers do not or forget to send them in.

Pain-less:

It is a marketing ploy. Even still, once after the 30 day period has expired, the account could be updated with the correct name information, if necessary.

It’s a marketing ploy? Get real. It’s the way iRacing signs up EVERYONE. It has been their consistent registration model since launch.

Unklepepper’s point also hits the proverbial golden spike on the head, too. Great point, Unk.

Pain, you can believe any consipiracy theory you want. I take it you believe there were six gunmen on the grassy knoll in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, too.

Pain-less:

It is a marketing ploy. Even still, once after the 30 day period has expired, the account could be updated with the correct name information, if necessary.

No. It isn’t a marketing ploy. That’d be ridiculous. And iRacing is attempting to build what essentially is a massive league. There is no hiding behind usernames here.

Paul Kelly:
iRacing uses the name on your credit card to ensure people don’t race under fake Internet nicknames or pseudonyms. So when you’re racing with someone named Dale Earnhardt Jr., Marcos Ambrose or Justin Wilson, it really is them.
This has been mentioned numerous times in iRacing threads at VirtualR, but hey, who has time to read these days?

It is a marketing ploy. Even still, once after the 30 day period has expired, the account could be updated with the correct name information, if necessary.

This has been mentioned numerous times in iRacing threads at VirtualR, but hey, who has time to read these days?

Howie47:
NOPE. I’m not giving my credit card info, to try a demo. If I forget to jump through their hoops. They automatically start (taking) money from me. What Universe do these people live in????

I agree!! They could have done it backwards. Sign up for free, no money, no credit card and let the potential new customer try it for 30 days. After 30 days the account is flagged and if you want to CONTINUE using the service, then you give them billing information.

But then iRacing wouldn’t get free money from the people that forgot to cancel.

felipe:

ok my idea indeed doesn’t work but then they should make it clear the trial will cost U$ 1 and not “free”!

It doesn’t cost $1. Your $1 will be returned if you cancel before the end of the demo, making it F-R-E-E.