> I would love if they would release this as a product I could buy

I never understood the online service as a business model, unless
they really over-estimated the number of active subscribers when
they started this. Initially the physics still needed tweaking,
and there wasn't a lot of content (cars and tracks), but
there is enough content now to release a stand alone game, and
given the fact that there aren't any other new sim-oriented racing
games being released now (when is rFactor 2 supposed to happen?),
sales should be good for a sim-oriented racing game.

Who knows what will happen. I recall a few predictions that drastic
changes would happen within 3 years of release, and some of those
drastic changes, mostly price reductions and now the hosted
racing, have already occurred.