Thread: Sim(bin)raceway.com

Here is the full press release that i found in my email inbox this morning

rFactorcentral.com to launch substantial feature
upgrade and become simraceway.com


Today rfactorcentral.com announced that its sim racing community recently hit a major milestone - 150,000,000 pages viewed, since its launch back in July 2006. In that time its community of sim racers has uploaded and shared 881 car and track mods, 5917 skins, 3002 videos, and argued commented and helped each other in over 50,767 posts .
The site also announced its intention to complete a substantial overhaul and feature upgrade, the details of which will be released at a later date. Whilst the feature upgrade will be significant, and some features will command a fee, all features and services that are currently free, will remain so.

It was also released that the name of the site will be changed to simraceway.com, to reflect support for a wider range of sim racing titles and activities.

This development of the site has been made possible by an acquisition and investment from Ignite Game Technologies.

Pete Walsh, Creator of rfactorcentral.com said of the news;
"It has been an awesomely rewarding experience building rfactorcentral.com but recently the site has gotten to the level where it was simply too large for one man to manage. So it's very exciting that a new team wants to not only join forces, but fund future development. Some of the ideas we've been discussing are really exciting and I look forward to dialoging with the sim community on them.”

Jonathan Haswell, Founder of Ignite said of the news:
Ever since we started looking at the sim racing space we have been blown away by not only the high fidelity physics games in the space but also the incredibly talented and creative modding community. What's even more remarkable about this rich productivity is how it's been achieved with such little resources. So we're very excited about being able to collaborate on this project and can't wait to see what the community does with the new tools and features we'll be providing.

About rFactorcentral.com
rFactorcentral.com is a leading community resource site for rfactor and sim racing enthusiasts. It was launched in July 2006 by Pete Walsh in response to an evident need for a location to share community resources for the game.

About Ignite Game Technologies
Ignite is a Silicon Valley based start up focused on game skill quantification and competitive gaming. It was founded in 2008 and is developing the world's first 100% accurate skill quantification and matching engine. The engine is potentially significant as it provides the key missing link technologies to power competitive video gaming, a sector in its infancy, that to date has been hampered by poor skill matching, player liquidity management challenges and un compelling competition dynamic

Im not liking the sound of having to pay for certain features, the whole point of modding is that its free.

If they start charging for certain downloads I should imagine somewhere will spring up and provide them for free, maybe the fee is unrelated to downloading but RFC has been an excellent resource centre for rFactor.

quoting dis and stopping the shillito train:

all features and services that are currently free, will remain so

but once simracing gets a "professional" look everything will become insanely expensive just like real racing which isnt what we want because the whole point of sim racing is the fact its there for people who aren't insanely rich so therefore cant afford to go real racing.