iRacing Adds More Free Content

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The most expensive service in the motor simulation universe will strengthen its base content with three pieces: one car and two tracks.

iRacing has announced part of its new content for the upcoming update of the new season. Starting next week, users can enjoy a whole new car from Toyota. The GR86 Cup is the latest star on the North America Gazoo Racing schedule and takes place on seven of the most iconic tracks ariybd the country. The car has modifications from its base model, detailed on the GR Cup website.

"The GR86 Cup car modifications include Bosch engine management, custom Borla exhaust, SADEV 6-speed sequential transmission, Alcon brakes, JRI adjustable shocks, OMP safety equipment, roll cage, carbon fiber rear wing, 22-gallon fuel cell, TGRNA designed MacPherson strut, Stratasys custom bodywork, a TGRNA designed splitter, and more."

Virginia International Raceway will get some love as well. The track will be updated with the latest data and technologies and will also be part of the base content. Users who purchased the track in the last three months will have a full refund.

On the Dirt Road category, there is news too. Wild West Motorsports Park will enrich the base content (with a full refund for the last three months' buyers) and two more legacy free tracks will have Dirt Road configurations. Daytona and Phoenix will make the Rookie level much more accessible and coherent eliminating Joker Laps from the rallycross tracks.

iRacing will be deploying these and more S1 2023 updates next week, popularly known as the 13th week when the service tests the new features and content before the official beginning.

What do you think about this release? Let us know in the comments down below!
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Johnr777 said:
No different than Netflix or Amazon Video adding more content... or your gym adding a new piece of equipment for you to use.

Dont like their services? Stay away, simple.
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Not a good comparissons I think, because I can watch all the content available on Netflix with my sub, likewise I can use all the equipment available at the gym. New free movies, or new free equipment, add value to my subscriptions and in the Netflix's case, I get free content every month without having to pay for locked content.

I wouldn't mind paying a sub to get the best multiplayer racing game available atm, but having to purchase content on top of the sub to be able to race a car I like, is what I think most of iRacing detractors are mad with and is why I cancelled my sub a few years ago.
 
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If you think you can afford it and are willing, you will subscribe to the service.
If you think you cannot or do not agree with the system, you will not.

Do we have to go through the same shenanigans every time?
Plenty of other choices in the market otherwise.
I do strongly despise rFactor2, the company behind it (Motorsport Games), the UI, the way you have to install base content on that sim plus the price of that sim DLCs, but I do not go to every and any rFactor 2 related post nagging about it unless a post is directly related to those issues.

To each her own.
 
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Johnr777
nangu said:
Not a good comparissons I think, because I can watch all the content available on Netflix with my sub, likewise I can use all the equipment available at the gym. New free movies, or new free equipment, add value to my subscriptions and in the Netflix's case, I get free content every month without having to pay for locked content.

I wouldn't mind paying a sub to get the best multiplayer racing game available atm, but having to purchase content on top of the sub to be able to race a car I like, is what I think most of iRacing detractors are mad with and is why I cancelled my sub a few years ago.
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Why are they mad? Why are they vocal about something they KNEW was going to happen? Its iRacing's business strategy to charge for new content, plain and simple.

By the way, netflix and prime havent stayed at the same membership pricing either ;)
 
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Also, why some simracers aren't already vocal and enraged about Rennsport?
Rennsport has confirmed their business model will be with a monthly subscription with base content and additional cars and tracks are going to be sold, just like iRacing.

The only difference with iRacing is that they are going to allow mods.
And so far they are going to concentrate on GT3s.
So basically it is like ACC with iRacing business model and mods (AC?).

Yet, in Rennsport official Discord people are incredibly apologetic (maybe it is desperate hope?) about the confirmed business model while... being aggressive and angry at iRacing with a very similar business model.
People never end to amuse me LOL
 
Eckhart von Glan
really looking forward to a VIR update, that track is sooooo good. I just hope they keep the magic tree, even if in real life it hasn't been there for years.
 
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Jim Layee
Blerpa said:
Also, why some simracers aren't already vocal and enraged about Rennsport?
Rennsport has confirmed their business model will be with a monthly subscription with base content and additional cars and tracks are going to be sold, just like iRacing.

The only difference with iRacing is that they are going to allow mods.
And so far they are going to concentrate on GT3s.
So basically it is like ACC with iRacing business model and mods (AC?).

Yet, in Rennsport official Discord people are incredibly apologetic (maybe it is desperate hope?) about the confirmed business model while... being aggressive and angry at iRacing with a very similar business model.
People never end to amuse me LOL
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Maybe Rennsport is deleting anything too negative ? When they announced their business model it did go down like a lead balloon and they have been trying hard to brush it under the carpet.
 
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Tarmac Terrorist said:
Wow, VIR for free, thats great news, one of my favorite tracks! I really wanna try Iracing, its pretty much the only one i've never driven (apart from Codies F1). But im still not keen on renting it all. I don't mind paying a sub for great multiplayer at all, but not having access to even just drive a car i've purchased on a track i've purchased, by myself. What if you lost internet for a couple of months for instance. I really wish they at least had a very small demo just to get a feel for it. I know they have a cheap months sub, but if there was a free limited demo, maybe if I liked it I'd buy the full year sub. I do hear Driver61 saying the MX5 is the closest hes driven to the real thing, and he should know!
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I've put over 2k USD into iRacing, now I don't even use it. It's so darn expensive for what you get
Edit: funny thing, I've started using it again for the A.I. racing with the '79 lotus.
Detail in the mirrors keeps me coming back. So silly
 
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eg01st
Tarmac Terrorist said:
Wow, VIR for free, thats great news, one of my favorite tracks! I really wanna try Iracing, its pretty much the only one i've never driven (apart from Codies F1). But im still not keen on renting it all. I don't mind paying a sub for great multiplayer at all, but not having access to even just drive a car i've purchased on a track i've purchased, by myself. What if you lost internet for a couple of months for instance. I really wish they at least had a very small demo just to get a feel for it. I know they have a cheap months sub, but if there was a free limited demo, maybe if I liked it I'd buy the full year sub. I do hear Driver61 saying the MX5 is the closest hes driven to the real thing, and he should know!
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Try it, it made other sims obsolete for me. Maybe I could still play rF2 for single player and ffb pleasure.
iR physics are better than I expected from stories, almost like rF2, definitely better than ACC. FFB is more like AC, but without that light front lockup feel.
I've been renting it for few months, and already spent 300 euros, so there's that... But online racing is unbelievably close, and apart from wreckfest moments, really rewarding.
 
Catiorro F1
Johnr777 said:
No different than Netflix or Amazon Video adding more content... or your gym adding a new piece of equipment for you to use.

Dont like their services? Stay away, simple.
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i dont think anyone says that netflix added a new free movie or free new series lol
 
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nangu said:
Not a good comparissons I think, because I can watch all the content available on Netflix with my sub, likewise I can use all the equipment available at the gym. New free movies, or new free equipment, add value to my subscriptions and in the Netflix's case, I get free content every month without having to pay for locked content.

I wouldn't mind paying a sub to get the best multiplayer racing game available atm, but having to purchase content on top of the sub to be able to race a car I like, is what I think most of iRacing detractors are mad with and is why I cancelled my sub a few years ago.
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But the Amazon Prime comparison seems to be a good comparison. You get some stuff for the basic membership, but you have to pay for premium content.

At the end of the day, iRacing is completely open about how their pricing works. If it's worth it to you, then go for it. If not, then don't. Nobody is obligated to provide consumers with a product/service at the exact price that the consumer wants.
 
TheRealCeeBee
Are we able to "sell" an iRacing account? I have 18 months of a 24 month subscription left and 800AUD of vehicles, would be able to sell it to someone like a mate for say $200? move the email address and login over to them?
 
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TheRealCeeBee said:
Are we able to "sell" an iRacing account? I have 18 months of a 24 month subscription left and 800AUD of vehicles, would be able to sell it to someone like a mate for say $200? move the email address and login over to them?
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No:

You agree that you have no right or title in or to any such content. iRacing does not recognize any virtual property transfers executed outside of the Service or the purported sale, gift or trade in the "real world" of anything related to the Service. Accordingly, you may not sell items for "real" money or otherwise exchange items for value outside of the Service.
 
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^^^ Same as any videogame store, Steam, GoG, Epic Games Store, Ubisoft, EA, etc.
You cannot transfer anything you bought to another user (unless you buy to gift to someone right at the beginning or you use the lent programme inside Steam, but it is only borrowed).
So, no big deal.

If someone wants to resell their videogames after they are done with them, they can go live back in the past and play with consoles and their physical copies of games.
 
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jonelsorel
Scottt said:
This is the part that I find kind of funny. People seem willing to thousands of dollars on hardware with little complaint, but seem to get upset with spending a hundred or two on the most important part, the software.
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What I find even more funny is that people don't see a difference between a product you buy and you own for good and a service you pay for every month. That one slipped under the radar, eh? :)
 
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