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Iracing survey response
I’d appreciate if somebody who’s a current iracing member would re-
post this in their forum: Hi, I just got the survey asking why I didn’t renew my membership when the free period ended, and I do appreciate being asked so I filled it in right away. However I didn’t feel “other” and “none of the above” really did justice to questions 1 & 5 so here’s my expanded answer. 1. What is the number one reason you didn't renew your membership? There was really no one single reason. Cost was a factor, but I wouldn’t want to imply that I’m a cheapskate (in this regard anyway). Maybe “value for money” would be closer. On a lap over lap basis at tracks I enjoy like LRP or Leguna, Iracing is hands down the best simulator of motor vehicle dynamics I’ve tried. However the alternatives (rfactor/gtr2) while not as technically accurate, still give very good cause & effect feedback for driving and setup changes while giving superior “online play” (better idea of where your opponents are, better able to bring the 3D world to a 2D screen, ability to customize your interface etc), for less money and with intimately more flexibility in style/format/venue/scheduling. 5. Which feature, if added to iRacing, would make you want to try iRacing again? “Curiosity” is the closest answer I can come up with and that wasn’t really on the list. I’m sure there’ve been incremental improvements and new tracks/cars/players since I left but it’s hard to know from the outside. Probably the cold winter months will make me curious enough to spend $20 find out for myself. Otherwise I honestly don’t know. I’ve got 2-4 hours available to me a week for sim racing (maybe more in the winter), if I had 10-15 hours then I’d probably want more structure to part of the mix, but as it is I’d have to give up time in other areas in order to spend time in iracing. I have no philosophical objection to the subscription model and I’d by be no means the last hold out in my race group (league, buddies, community, whatever the right word is) to abandon what I drive today and re-subscribe to iracing but at this point I don’t see any compelling reason to break ranks either. I had some really good races within iracing, I had some boring solo runs ahead/behind the packs and I got thumped into the wall unnecessarily. The experience was as good as (but not better then) I’ve had with any other sim. I don’t want to give the impression that I’d come running if private servers were set up, but the ability to run with my buddies (who aren’t all my speed) does have an appeal. I know for the most part if I have contact that puts one of out it’s an accident and we don’t get bent out of shape about how it will affect us 2 weeks from now, at the same time I know I’m not running in a demo-derby. With Iracing I never knew who I was racing against from one day to the next, which gave everybody a certain anonymousness that was not unlike racing against a really good AI car. I respected them enough to not want to take them out, but didn’t really feel any sense of accomplishment by beating them either. |
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