SimBin UK Closes Social Media Accounts

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SimBin UK, the developer behind the supposedly forthcoming GTR3 racing title, has closed their social media accounts.

In what may prove to be the last news we hear about GTR3, developer SimBin UK has pulled the source of the trickle of information we were getting about the upcoming title. The developer closed their Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts Sunday.

GTR3 was first teased in January of 2017. It caught the attention of the sim racing world, as its predecessor GTR2 holds legendary status with many in the community. Our Paul Jeffery interviewed two members of the SimBin team the next month, and things were looking promising. SimBin even hoped to have the title in a playable state the same year.

Things seemed to only get worse from there. Over the succeeding years, information about the title became sporadic, and a few teaser images per year became standard. GT3 class cars seemed to be the sole focus of the title, and though the screenshots looked impressive, some began to question SimBin’s strategy of developing a GT3 title using the Unreal Engine given that Kunos Simulazioni had already established themselves in exactly that market with Assetto Corsa Competizione.

Although most in the sim racing community had since given up on GTR3 ever seeing the light of day, there was a faint hope that one day we’d open Twitter, Instagram or Facebook and see a new post from SimBin with a release date or at least some gameplay footage. But those information channels have now been closed, along with our collective hopes of a sequel to GTR2 in the immediate future.

Closing social media accounts doesn’t preclude GTR3 ever being made, of course, but given the unusually long and vague development process we’ve witnessed, it seems probable that this is the deathblow for SimBin UK’s GTR3 title.
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I have been obsessed with sim racing and racing games since the 1980's. My first taste of live auto racing was in 1988, and I couldn't get enough ever since. Lead writer for RaceDepartment, and owner of SimRacing604 and its YouTube channel. Favourite sims include Assetto Corsa Competizione, Assetto Corsa, rFactor 2, Automobilista 2, DiRT Rally 2 - On Twitter as @simracing604

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Slightly off-topic, but wasn't Race Room meant to be switching to the Unreal engine at some point, or did I dream it?
Would... that even be a good thing? I know they can get some good graphics out of it but i dont think it would be good in terms of physics.
 
Its been ****ing decades by now, same with FeelVR.
Haven't people learn't that "you shouldn't hype people if you dont got **** to show" and "you shouldn't be hyped if you dont have something in your hands"?
 
I knowed it, now im sad, i thought the whole gtr series cames back with a bang, but it was a bang in the opposite direction
 
Couple years back I recall asking fairly basic questions about the state of GTR 3 on here, and one of the high ups from SimBin UK came into the thread bashing me and anyone else who doubted the project as vindictive trolls.

I remember thinking it was quite arrogant for someone who 1) didn't have a game ready to show us, 2) hardly had a staff, and 3) didn't have any licensing deals done.

Now I kind of understand why he had a hard time answering said questions and began to be a bit snarky.

To me it's always come across as a sort of inverted project. It seems like they announced the game, it only existed in their minds or on paper, used the positive chatter on RD to lure in investors, and then hoped to actually hiring staff to build the game once the funds were in the account.

I think the problem they ran into, is they couldn't actually find investors. They then had to spend years saving face pretending the project was in development, when it wasn't. It's likely it existed as this weird secondary arm of Sector 3, a few people here and there tasked with running the Discord or posting on the socials purely for optics, with NDA's and other non-disparagement garbage preventing the truth from getting out.

In the likelihood it did exist - let's be honest crazier stuff has happened - there's no way it would have held a candle to ACC anyways. They were making, for all intents and purposes, the exact same game.
 
Couple years back I recall asking fairly basic questions about the state of GTR 3 on here, and one of the high ups from SimBin UK came into the thread bashing me and anyone else who doubted the project as vindictive trolls.

I remember thinking it was quite arrogant for someone who 1) didn't have a game ready to show us, 2) hardly had a staff, and 3) didn't have any licensing deals done.

Now I kind of understand why he had a hard time answering said questions and began to be a bit snarky.

To me it's always come across as a sort of inverted project. It seems like they announced the game, it only existed in their minds or on paper, used the positive chatter on RD to lure in investors, and then hoped to actually hiring staff to build the game once the funds were in the account.

I think the problem they ran into, is they couldn't actually find investors. They then had to spend years saving face pretending the project was in development, when it wasn't. It's likely it existed as this weird secondary arm of Sector 3, a few people here and there tasked with running the Discord or posting on the socials purely for optics, with NDA's and other non-disparagement garbage preventing the truth from getting out.

In the likelihood it did exist - let's be honest crazier stuff has happened - there's no way it would have held a candle to ACC anyways. They were making, for all intents and purposes, the exact same game.
I'mma keep it 150 on a stack bruh, nobody wanted to work on their game because they all knew, Forza pulls in all the arcade racing game's money. The pictures they kept "teasing" us with were probably rFactor 2 with some custom PP filters.
 
Western societies in general including UK usually enjoy much lower levels of lies and scams than others (not naming names, just say others). It breaks my heart to learn this story about a business faking and lying to people for years.
 

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