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“First and foremost, Simraceway Online is based on Image Space Incorporated’s gMotor 2 engine”

Damn, I hope they heavily re-work it and replace things like the renderer. With a 7.5 million $ budget they should. The engine as it stands just isn’t modern enough.

¿En qué estás pensando…?

The grass in those screenshots looks very nice for the Gmotor engine.

gMotor 2 engine is the one used for rFactor or for rFactor 2? If is the same as for rFactor 2 I will definately support this. iRacing needs big competetion and this would be very welcomed!

rFactor

I saw a Youtube video somewhere and it looked almost exactly like rFactor. Of course, it’s still a beta – anything could happen.

Grass is good, true. But the car model has too few polygons.

Concept sounds very nice, and gMotor engine is quite suitable for this. Too bad that again we have these totally boring modern crap cars and tracks. Please more vintage stuff and public roads through forests!

Looks great actually.  detailed , and a fine model.  The Gmotor2 engine might be discarted as old, but it has never been used to its full potential in a 2011 hardware  situation. So nothing wrong with that.  Nice to see a new competitor in the sim scene.

However…   The ” Simraceway ” name still makes me a little nervous.
Its like Mr. Jekyll turning in to Mr. Hyde overnight….  i dont know….

Lets hope for the best.

PS: Beating iRacing is not about GFX,Physics or laser scanned tracks. Its the competition where it really stands out. as far as i feel it ,to date its the only Sim that overall feels more then a Sport , instead of a Game.

Looks great actually.  detailed , and a fine model.  The Gmotor2 engine might be discarted as old, but it has never been used to its full potential in a 2011 hardware  situation. So nothing wrong with that.  Nice to see a new competitor in the sim scene.  
 
However…   The ” Simraceway ” name still makes me a little nervous.  
Its like Mr. Jekyll turning in to Mr. Hyde overnight….  i dont know….  
 
Lets hope for the best.  
 
To SBKracer:  Beating iRacing is not about GFX,Physics or laser scanned tracks. Its the competition where it really stands out. as far as i feel it ,to date its the only Sim that overall feels more then a Sport, then of a Game. It seems to me that in the ” League and/or Competition department ” most sims we used to love the last few years are fading away.

:(

They have been turned over to light side for some time already.
Expect much more good things to come in the near future.

like the zandvoord you created

That is one fine looking track! looks very lush green and nice, very nice!

I hope they scan some cool (euro) tracks that we dont have in iracing :)

Mid Ohio looking superb there, car not so. Still free to play sim with Laser Scanned track…yes please!

I’m sure actually that RF2 is also using the GMotor2 engine but modfied with PP etc. So SimRaceWay could also do the same

cmon lets be realistic shall we. finding 7.5m to put into a free sim? investors dont give money away for nothing. someone will pay somehow, there’s not that kind of money in online advertising alone.

if this even gets off the ground, i imagine the free part might be like 1 car and 1 track

call me crazy :)

you are NOT crazy  :)

Yeah, that does look like one fine looking track !  

“ The Gmotor2 engine might be discarted as old, but it has never been used to its full potential in a 2011 hardware  situation”
That’s because the engine itself doesn’t take advantage of 2011 hardware. Unless these guys heavily rework the engine with a new renderer it is still going to look dated.

That’s what free-to-play is. Free to play with some basic content. If you want more cars and tracks you buy them.
Same model SMS is using with C.A.R.S.

But “nice for the Gmotor engine” doesn’t cut it these days. They’re going to have to do better than that.
With rFactor 2, C.A.R.S. and possibly more, this doesn’t look like it stands a chance.

“I’m sure actually that RF2 is also using the GMotor2 engine but modfied with PP etc”
More like heavily reworked into a new engine. Guess they will call it GMotor 3. After all those are the guys that made GMotor.

Looks better than iRacing, any 3D grass would since iRacing is just 2D.

Of course, it also shows that it’s more the quality of the racing and not the graphics that makes a sim desirable. I doubt many people would jump ship to a prettier game if the racing is worse.

Sounds about like what John W Henry is doing for iRacing: he likes the product and wants it to succeed.

Well, looks like they’re taking aim squarely at iRacing. We’ll see how many of the promises they fulfill, but depending on how much of it is free to play it will definitely have at least a decent chance of dragging some people away. It is what the racing genre needs, though, more organized racing through a governing body which hands out punishments. No more of the ‘wild-west’ crap where you just get punted off in the first corner so the wrecker can get by.

If anything, assuming they focus on European content, I can see a split with iRacing continuing to be predominantly American, with SimRaceway picking up the European market.

they’ll probably use basic G-motor2 base, like rfactor1 and GTR2,and that’s just completely useless and waste of money. Rfactor 2 is totally different game and no one would play the game just for laser-scanned tracks when rfactor 2 is out.

I can remember saying in the previous article that VirtualR would not cover it…

Track is looking good though, we’ll see what comes from it

OMG… here is the list of cars =-O all official products!

Megane Trophy Free
McLaren F1 2007 mp4-22 $2.50
Lotus Exige S 240 $0.43
Ariel Atom 500 V8 $ 1.60
Chevrolet Corvette C6.R Free
2010 Indycar Series $4.95
Lola-Aston Martin B09/60 LMP1 $0.43
Honda HSV: GT500 No price yet

I can’t believe the list blows iRacing’s list to Oblivion :)
Megane Trophy

OMG… here is the list of cars =-O all official products!  
 
Megane Trophy Free  
McLaren F1 2007 mp4-22 $2.50  
Lotus Exige S 240 $0.43  
Ariel Atom 500 V8 $ 1.60  
Chevrolet Corvette C6.R Free  
2010 Indycar Series $4.95  
Lola-Aston Martin B09/60 LMP1 $0.43  
Honda HSV: GT500 No price yet  
 
I can’t believe the list blows iRacing’s list to Oblivion and much cheaper!

Tracks confirmed…

Long Beach Free
Longstone Pass Free

OMG… here is the list of cars =-O all official products!    
   
Megane Trophy Free    
McLaren F1 2007 mp4-22 $2.50    
Lotus Exige S 240 $0.43    
Ariel Atom 500 V8 $ 1.60    
Chevrolet Corvette C6.R Free    
2010 Indycar Series $4.95    
Lola-Aston Martin B09/60 LMP1 $0.43    
Honda HSV: GT500 No price yet    
   
I can’t believe the list blows iRacing’s list to Oblivion and much cheaper!  
 
Tracks confirmed…  
 
Long Beach Free  
Longstone Pass Free
Mid-Ohio No price info

Lola Aston and a Atom V8….Yes please!

Btw…where did you find this info?

Simraceway will leverage a client-server model similar to popular online games such as World of Warcraft™, and will contain current and historic licensed content from a variety of auto and racing brands including Bentley™, Bugatti™, Mitsubishi™ and Saleen™. The racing environment will be continually updated and contain street, fantasy and real world tracks – many of which will be laser scanned for millimeter accuracy of the racing surface. 

From below, sounds promising

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/pressreleases/75682/IGNITE_GAME_TECHNOLOGIES_ANNOUNCES_NEW_ONLINE_RACING_GAMEndash_SIMRACEWAYtrade.php

The cheapness of those prices actually makes one skeptical.  It seems like they are -trying- to compete with iRacing here, only their prices are slashed by a massive margin.

A general rule in life, if you pay cheap, you get cheap.

Looking forward to more information about this, though.

somewhere very reliable here some extra pics for the Megane :)

http://postimage.org/image/2rwfuz4g4/
http://postimage.org/image/2rwhiigxw/
http://postimage.org/image/2rwj61tfo/

Ambitious, I’ll give them that.

is that an upgraded vlm mid-ohio? i see their nbc helicopter flying on the same path in the first pc. the indycar in that dan wheldon video looks like the one released for rfactor.

with pc i mean pic

LOL to the blowing iRacing to Oblivion.

Notice the trend?…first publishers start selling DLC packs…now they charge per content…what do you think the next step is?…LMAO…

add… Audi R15 Plus no price yet

Personally I’d like nothing better than a genuine challenger to iRacing which, in my opinion, has done more harm to our hobby than good, in terms of pricing and dividing the community into the haves and have nots.

The pricing seems to be more in line with what one would consider reasonable and is likely to receive widespread support, assuming the “sim” credentials are in place, which does indeed look to be the case.

I wish the project nothing but success and look forward to the effect a successful launch will have on iRacing’s pricing :-)

add… Audi R15 Plus $0.43

Some very good comments there, I think.

There’s definitely room in the marketplace for a serious contender to iRacing.

It’s certainly right now a good time to be a race game fan with this, ACR, C.A.R.S and rF2 in the pipeline, 3 of which are free to play games with extra content paid for through mini transactions. Not sure how close of a competitor it can be to iRacing but i spose the stumbling block with mose sim racers when itr comes to iRacing is the prices which can seem expensive but really it’s not.

But these prices seem far more attractive and are in line with what SMS and their C.A.R.S sim where saying they would be pushing for. Problem is for me personally is the main reason iRacing excels is the MP and just that different feel it has when online, in that it feels more than a game. It’s not that Laser Scanned tracks etc which make it shine, they are just extra candy.

But it’s cool to have all these sims in the pipeline at a time where console racing games are so dominant. Looking forward to it as i am the others mentioned but really want rF2 more than anything. Done with iRacing now and need something else

I said I wouldn’t cover it if it becomes an arcade game… it obviously does not, legitimate sims get covered of course  :)

It’s certainly right now a good time to be a race game fan with this, ACR, C.A.R.S and rF2 in the pipeline, 3 of which are free to play games with extra content paid for through mini transactions. Not sure how close of a competitor it can be to iRacing but i spose the stumbling block with most sim racers when it comes to iRacing is the prices which can seem expensive but really it’s not.   But these prices seem far more attractive and are in line with what SMS and their C.A.R.S sim where saying they would be pushing for. Problem is for me personally is the main reason iRacing excels is the MP and just that different feel it has when online, in that it feels more than a game. It’s not that Laser Scanned tracks etc which make it shine, they are just extra candy.   But it’s cool to have all these sims in the pipeline at a time where console racing games are so dominant. Looking forward to it as i am the others mentioned but really want rF2 more than anything. Done with iRacing now and need something else

It’s certainly right now a good time to be a race game fan with this, ACR, C.A.R.S and rF2 in the pipeline, 3 of which are free to play games with extra content paid for through mini transactions. Not sure how close of a competitor it can be to iRacing but i spose the stumbling block with most sim racers when it comes to iRacing is the prices which can seem expensive but really it’s not.   But these prices seem far more attractive and are in line with what SMS and their C.A.R.S sim where saying they would be pushing for. Problem is for me personally is the main reason iRacing excels is the MP and just that different feel it has when online, in that it feels more than a game. It’s not the Laser Scanned tracks etc which make it shine, they are just extra candy.   But it’s cool to have all these sims in the pipeline at a time where console racing games are so dominant. Looking forward to it as i am the others mentioned but really want rF2 more than anything. Done with iRacing now and need something else

… i feel some MMG in this story.  :)   i might be wrong…

I doubt if they are really some legal contents. I guess some of them are just rip off of modder’s works.

iRacing = Sues Mod teams

Simraceway = profits from Mod teams 

haha

That would be transparently illegal. If they were doing that, I doubt they would be doing it in such a public way!

Personally I’d like nothing better than a genuine challenger to iRacing which, in my opinion, has done more harm to our hobby than good, in terms of pricing and dividing the community into the haves and have nots. ”

i dunno if you can speak for everyone.

If sim-racer1 makes a mod with ripped content and Company2 rips sim-racer1′s work, then who is the bad guy ?  There’s a lot of hipocrasy in this community and the word illegal is thrown around as if it actually means something when a lot of the time it doesn’t.

If sim-racer1 makes a mod with ripped content from a commetcial game and Company2 rips sim-racer1′s work, then who is the bad guy ?  There’s a lot of hipocrasy in this community and the word illegal is thrown around as if it actually means something when a lot of the time it doesn’t.

There are loads of mods out there which are blatant conversions of commercial game content and those modders would complain if someone ripped their conversion.   IMO they have no comback on that at all.
I see mods with car genres what require licenes to legally exist, F1 especially.   Trademarks are ripped off left right and centre.    And how many mods are created with the use of a pirated copy of 3D Max and Photoshop ?     
Lets not go down the legal/illegal route ok ?

This looks promising, if it is not arcad bullshit I am in. :)

John Henry invested big bucks but iRacing aims to make money and support themselves and has broken even recently or is about to.

7.5 million is too much money and no subscriptions plus cheap cars is not going to pay that back, so how will this work? We’re not being told the whole story, simracing is a niche, do these guys believe they can have millions of costumers? Maybe it is actually arcadish? Much like C.A.R.S. there is reason to be skeptical about this. I’ll wait and see.

Sure does look like the MMG Megane model to me!  I hope to god that they aren’t involved…

Again with the pricing, comparing apples to oranges, who will run the servers to have 30+ drivers racing? Simraceway? With micro-transactions to pay for it?! I doubt that.

The subscription model is the only viable one to have server farms running races 24h/7d per week.
So if their isn’t a subscription model, then who pays for the servers to run? The users that can afford to do it. 

ah hahah my bad.

Sounds like these were formerly unofficial mods, and the creators and the license holders have been paid. So, doesn’t make me think high quality content, but if you’re into rFactor racing but want a cleaner environment this is probably for you.

They will make money when they take the company public with thousands of subscribers. That’s how boom and bust companies with investiment money works so the shareholders will pay for your car and track :) and they will think you will be making them money lol.

Oh my god (2x) =-O updated list and some dreams coming true :-P

Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 $2.54
Morgan Aero SuperSports $2.08
2010 Morgan 3 Wheeler $0.45
Palatov DP4 Super Go-Kart $0.50
Simraceway 6XJ4 $0.43
Volkswagen GTI $.043
Bentley SuperSport $2.73
McLaren MP4-12C $2.65
Audi R15 Plus $0.43
E92 M3 GT2 $0.43
Ford GT-RM $0.43
Lola B06/10 $0.43h
2009 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (Type 997) $0.43
Megane Trophy Free      
McLaren F1 2007 mp4-22 $2.50      
Lotus Exige S 240 $0.43      
Ariel Atom 500 V8 $ 1.60      
Chevrolet Corvette C6.R Free      
2010 Indycar Series $4.95      
Lola-Aston Martin B09/60 LMP1 $0.43      
Honda HSV: GT500 No price yet   

I can’t believe the list blows iRacing’s list to Oblivion and much cheaper! (4x)  
   
Tracks confirmed…    
   
Long Beach Free    
Longstone Pass Free  
Mid-Ohio No price info
Zandvoort No price info
***All are official licensed and developed in partnership with these manufactures so to bring the most real sim experience.

Oh my god (2x) =-O updated list and some dreams coming true :-P   
 
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 $2.54  
Morgan Aero SuperSports $2.08  
2010 Morgan 3 Wheeler $0.45  
Palatov DP4 Super Go-Kart $0.50  
Simraceway 6XJ4 $0.43  
Volkswagen GTI $.043  
Bentley SuperSport $2.73  
McLaren MP4-12C $2.65  
Audi R15 Plus $0.43
E92 M3 GT2 $0.43  
Ford GT-RM $0.43  
Lola B06/10 $0.43h  
2009 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (Type 997) $0.43  
Megane Trophy Free    
2010 Audi R15 $0.43   
McLaren F1 2007 mp4-22 $2.50        
Lotus Exige S 240 $0.43        
Ariel Atom 500 V8 $ 1.60        
Chevrolet Corvette C6.R GT2 Free        
2010 Indycar Series $4.95        
Lola-Aston Martin B09/60 LMP1 $0.43        
Honda HSV: GT500 No price yet     
 
I can’t believe the list blows iRacing’s list to Oblivion and much cheaper! (4x)    
     
Tracks confirmed…      
     
Long Beach Free      
Longstone Pass Free    
Mid-Ohio No price info  
Zandvoort No price info
Brno
Brands Hatch
Salzburgring
Watkins Glen
Nordschliefe
Goodwood
Indianapolis

 
***All are official licensed and developed in partnership with these manufactures so to bring the most real sim experience.

Indy screens
http://postimage.org/image/1h1tpu8v8/
http://postimage.org/image/1h1vddld0/
Watkins
http://postimage.org/image/1h1x0wxus/
http://postimage.org/image/1h1yogack/

Logitech’s second biggest market now is Brazil.Europe is not a country it’s a whole region of more than 70 countries I don’t like this one country whole region comparison because it shows nowhere the real picture. No way Simraceway will focus on one region specially when countries like Brazil and Australia are 10x bigger than any country in the european continent (exception Germany).

One thing worth mentionning here is that this must be a montly fee to rent the car. Just like some new mmos. Might seem all of a sudden expensive but if we get bored of a car after a few weeks we can get rid of it and rent new ones so this seems like a more attractive plan to me.

Of course I could be wrong here but I would find hard to believe that a company would be able to survive by selling at such low level their contents.. especially if the game is F2P (free to play).

anyway the more sims the better !

Seems like they blew the millions to licences and laser scanning. 

I’m starting to wonder if ISI is involved in ll this. We know ISI announced the Chevrolet Corvette C6.R GT2 for rFactor 2 so maybe the skeleton will be rFactor 2! Anyway this is gonna be awesome!

I’d be curious on how they’ll make a profit.  Just selling game downloads?

Depends how much they are paying the modders… I’m sure it’s less than a standard working wage. At $25 for all cars, though, that would take 300,000 users buying all the cars and no license fees to make back their $7.5 million in funding. I agree, we’re missing some part of the business plan.

I’m hearing there’s an entry fee to race, and a purse for prize money.