DiRT Rally and DiRT 4 Quietly Removed From All Online Storefronts

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EA and Codemasters are on a roll. While announcing the demise of the Project CARS franchise, 2 of Codemaster's titles from the DiRT franchise have been taken down as well. From now on, you officially cannot buy both DiRT 4 as well as DiRT Rally anymore. Newer titles are not affected.

Publisher Electronic Arts seem to be restructuring its racing portfolio quite intensely. Yesterday saw the announcement of Project CARS, developed by Slightly Mad Studios being cancelled and the team reshuffled into other teams. Slightly Mad Studios is, or was, owned by Codemasters, developers of the DiRT franchise, GRID and the F1 Games and owned by EA.

It is unknown whether this restructuring of racing games under the EA umbrella has been sought after by EA itself or Codemasters. What is clear, however, is that major disruptions in the racing genre are currently happening.

If you still want to buy either of the 2 titles unlisted for PC, unfortunately, the only way would be by buying codes online. But if you do, be quick about it. DiRT 2 codes currently sell online for over 300€. So it can be expected that codes for DiRT 4 and DiRT Rally will increase in price too.

Or you can wait for the inevitable DiRT Rally 3.0 title that will be running with the WRC license at some point in the future, probably in 2023 or 2024. DiRT 6 is also expected to release no earlier than 2023.

But with no news on these new titles in the franchise, all we know is that currently, if you want to enter the DiRT scene, you need to do it via either the arcade racer DiRT 5 or the rally simulator DiRT Rally 2.0.

What do you think about this? Let us know in the comments down below!
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Motorsports and Maker-stuff enthusiast. Part time jack-of-all-trades. Owner of tracc.eu, a sim racing-related service provider and its racing community.

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Slapped
RCHeliguy said:
I've got a good profile for my SC2 Pro that works pretty well.
While it's true DR 2.0 doesn't feel as buttoned down as RBR, it's not bad.
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Would you mind sharing that profile? Preferably as a screenshot as the ”Paddock” has never worked properly for me.

Also your DR2 FFB config would help as well

And also the moon on a stick ;)
 
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Slapped said:
Would you mind sharing that profile? Preferably as a screenshot as the ”Paddock” has never worked properly for me.

Also your DR2 FFB config would help as well

And also the moon on a stick ;)
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The cloud profile I used(that I have copied locally) had notes for matching settings in DR 2 to go with it.

Interestingly enough I was just asked to find this for someone else by message, so I needed to do this anyway.
 
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RaceNut
Dirt Rally ffb was better than DR2 imo but, WRC Legends does a bit better than both. WRCL-ffb takes some time to dial in but, it gives more information and detail through ffb.

DR-ffb worked quite nicely when I used an AccuForce wheel as the telemetry-based effects offered some sense of front grip-loss and torque-steer.

DR2 ffb is okay-ish on dirt & gravel but, tarmac lacks any sense of grip / grip-loss transition, torque-steer, etc.

GD (SimuCube) has mentioned the possibility of adding support for some telemetry-driven effects (Like iRffb) to enhance under-steer / over-steer - at least, in some titles. Not sure that would help DR2-ffb for SimuCube users.
 
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Rot Teufel said:
If your intent is sealioning about not preversing legacy of a racing games on a racing game forum wich it's one of the biggest active files repository for modding and preserving the legacy of racing games, why you are here complaining about and have bias against them ('cause the golden rule of an archive is "never get rid of anything (expecially originals) unless it's unavoidable")?
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I don't understand your point. We're speaking about a project of law that seems unuseful because unrealistic, and I've stated that this type of archiving task is a sovereign state thing. And also that we should consider the cost of such an operation in a critical economic context. By the way, I dont think there is any sim in the history that is not available on an abandoware website. So, your archive wish has been done for many years.

The other part of the discussion is who should work in order to make these games working on modern systems. And no company will pay for something it won't gain money from. It left States, and I think taxes should be used for things more useful, and the community, which is the good way imo. For that, indeed, publishers should give the available games tools to the community.

Don't see any trolling there. Have you an obsession with past things or what? Sharing reflexions and opinions is what forums are made for. I've got a golden rule for you : archiving is useful, obsession is the loss of humanity.
 
jgf
What else do you expect from Evil Alliance, the cartel which years ago openly expressed its goal of destroying the market in used games? "every sale of a used game costs us the sale of a new game"
(By this logic we should outlaw used car lots, used book stores, flea markets, yard sales...)

So, with digital distribution now being the norm, the next logical step is to remove all old versions of games so the only option for gamers is to buy the newest version ...whether that is what you want or not. I would like to get the flight sim P3D but the new version will not run on my system and I cannot buy an older version, those devs get no money from me.


"my first true sim (ETS 2 was first...)"
Couldn't let this go by, lol. ETS2 was/is in no way, shape, or form a sim - leave your truck in 1st gear and redline across the continent with no damage, head-on collisions at 60mph and both trucks drive away, "upgrades" to systems that are eye candy only; not to mention a damage model where 20 pts damage to any system, even the body, merely causes the engine to cut out sporadically. A fun game? yes. A sim? no. (A major improvement would be if they ever actually release a finished version so the mod developers could create new content instead of constantly recreating old mods to work with the "latest build" "newest release".)
 
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Problem for a lot of people with the Dirt Rally franchise is they set the AI far to high and the average player had no chance of winning stages as even without mistakes etc you were losing seconds to Ai drivers i played last night for a bit to see if that is still true yeh i was running second on a stage pressed my brakes slightly into a corner and lost 10 seconds straight away lots of people got bored of this
 
FinFan
benannlivi said:
Problem for a lot of people with the Dirt Rally franchise is they set the AI far to high and the average player had no chance of winning stages as even without mistakes etc you were losing seconds to Ai drivers i played last night for a bit to see if that is still true yeh i was running second on a stage pressed my brakes slightly into a corner and lost 10 seconds straight away lots of people got bored of this
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I don't know. In DR I have no problems beating the AI 90% of the time if I don't throw the car off track. :D

What I can't figure out are the guys that are 30 sec to a minute faster than everyone else. And I'm way above the community delta. But I loose 5-10 secs per km on some stages. I've watched videos where cars drive like on rails with zero correction through corners. That seems wrong.

I mean, I drive for the fun of it and try to beat my own times but it's weird.
 
RCHeliguy
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Slapped said:
Would you mind sharing that profile? Preferably as a screenshot as the ”Paddock” has never worked properly for me.

Also your DR2 FFB config would help as well

And also the moon on a stick ;)
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I've been using the Dirt Rally 2 0 profile by Zeroselect in the cloud profiles.

There are instruction in the profile for Dirt Rally 2.0 in game setup that go with the profile.

It only has a mixed rating, but I like it. There are other higher rated profiles that you might want to try as well.

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Although no longer available for purchase on Steam, is there any way to still re-install Dirt 4 if you purchased it from Steam a few years ago, but subsequently removed it from your Steam library?

If so, how is that done?

Thanks!
 
David Peres
newbert said:
Although no longer available for purchase on Steam, is there any way to still re-install Dirt 4 if you purchased it from Steam a few years ago, but subsequently removed it from your Steam library?

If so, how is that done?

Thanks!
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When you say you removed it from your Steam library do you mean you've used the Steam Support function where is says "I want to permanently remove this game from my account"? I assume so because this is the only way to actually remove a game from Steam.

If so then all you have to do is go back to Steam Support (on the top where it says "Help"), then search for Dirt 4 on the bottom and choose the option "It's Not in my library" and then choose "Restore the previously removed package to my account".

Unless you just hid the game in your library instead of removing it... if so on the top of the Steam app select View > Hidden Games. The games that you've hid from your library will be here and you right click them and remove them from the hidden section, which puts them back on your visible library.
 
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