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Will anyone buy the 2010 anyway? The price tag on the classic Mc is actually fair enough, but 19 for something that is really outdated is just not realistic in all honesty.

So much negativity in articles about simraceway here, especially about prices. The game is free! It’s easy to win more then you spend too. By far most cars are below 3$, or even 1$, and considering the (most) prices are a fraction of real price, it makes perfect sense. Of course not everyone is going to buy these 20$ racing cars or super cars, that’s somewhat exclusive.

But what’s the point of buying an ‘exclusive’ sim racing car? You’ll have nobody to race it with…

Right now, the service is poor and sparsely populated, and the pricing of ‘this car has a lot of carbon fiber and magnesium so this digital replica costs you more’ makes no sense.

Of course the pricing makes sense…..at least for the developers. For a virtual replica it doesn´t make any sense since everything is just a bunch of polygons, created in an specific amount of time by an artist and you don´t even know if there is any big difference in license cost for a super race car or a Mercedes C-class. So calculating the prices as a fraction of the real world price makes no big sense.

Considering that Formula One cars are the most impressive racing machines in the world, and that they attract most simracers it does make perfect sense to sell them higher as they expect that people will want them nonewhatsoever. Although, these price tags are quite high indeed, but well…it’s their choice

F1 cars in sims are mostly for prestige, not because the produce good racing. Hell, anything with substantial downforce, added to the wide talent spectrum online, and you get spread out fields.

The lighter touring cars are where sim racing really prospers, they’re just harder to promote to those not driving them. You attract drivers with the F1 machinery, but they stick around because of the formula fords and such.

I think it’s a shame that Simraceway isn’t succeeding in making this project atract alot of people. Fair enough it isn’t not that long a go that there was a modders war going on that wasn’t a good thing for us simmers. The simraceway people saw that combining the forces behind the modders war was gonna a be a benefit too al of us and offcourse for themselve making a profit. I would say win-win situation. You can race alot off cars for reasonable prices and for those who want and can afford it can buy themselve a supercar. I would like 2. See some more respect for the guys behind this. It is sure enough a big efford and especially when things don’t seem too work out. Simmers or better say haters who haven’t driven any of these cars but already state how crappy they feel are just a bunch of childish disrespectfull kind of people. Ones they speak of modders and their mods of almost godlike creations. Now somebody is asking money and suddenly its al crap. Thats just wrong. I would like too thank the man and women behind this project.

 they lost all credibility and respect from me when they started to use free mods to earn money. And now those prices…you can buy rFactor2 for for the price of those last 3 McLaren’s. And I would rather buy a great game with nice amount of contents than only those 3 cars. Their pricing system sounds smart (calculating price for virtual car from price of a real car) but they should have known that there is really very few guys who would be willing to pay 20$ for one car.

Yes, but ‘the community’ is not a charity.   Nor is it easily exploited.  I don’t claim to speak for this supposed community, just stating facts.

I don’t see that SRW has offered anything that wasn’t available before, at less cost (free – once you have rFactor (or GTR, Race, whatever).  

Other than things they’ve obtained through licenses what have they done?  What have they really contributed?   I don’t see anything particularly – they’re middle-men exploiting existing technology.  Nothing wrong with that necessarily, but are they filling their niche with aplomb?  Are they really adding something that makes it a remotely reasonable place to put resources – as compared to ISI, iRacing and Kuoni?

I don’t think so.     Everyone is entitled to their opinion…….

As somebody said, SRW is the trolling of the sim community..

You can feel smug being the only person who owns it?