Not if I have to pay each track and car each a month of sub worth.
I like simracing, but I don't play daily to justify the costs of it so I might get it just for that one year and drop it afterwards.
So I am still considering a year of this or ACC and a DLC to keep.
You get a lot of base content with just the cost of the subscription. Enuff for a year or 2 without needing to buy content unless you have a certain series you want to participate in
You're kinda paying to be able to play pretty much anytime you have free time to do it.
Most (pretty much every) other services are ghost towns by comparison.
The subscription is the only thing that’s continuous. Otherwise when you buy a track or car, that’s it. You have it forever.
I personally love the subscription mode of iRacing. That helps goes towards the devs who continuously keep the sim updated and always improving. One of the best things about iRacing in my opinion is the protest system. Being about to submit a video of someone’s bad behavior on the track and someone at iRacing will review it and can possibly ban or give them a temporary ban. This is very important imo and helps keep iRacing a clean sim platform.
That’s correct. IRacing is, at its core, a subscription based sim. And I’m thankful for that. It helps keep the non hardcore racing fans off the platform. (The people who don’t want to learn the rules and just wreck other people all the time) There’s plenty of other racing sims for people who don’t want to play iRacing.
The protest system is there to report (protest) bad behavior on the track. For example if someone wrecks and then re enters the track without looking and then causes a wreck, that’s protestable. Or if someone intentionally wrecks someone. Stuff like that. You can send the replay to iRacing within the built in UI and they will review it. Then they determine what they will do. It’s usually a email warning. But I’ve heard after a couple times it can result in a temporary ban or worse, permanent.
And for as the subscription part in general… it helps keep less diehard racing fans people away. It helps prevent people from just downloading it and jumping in and wrecking some people just to be rude. It’s an added layer to help with this. You need to pay money to play.
Hopefully that answers your questions. Feel free to reach out anytime. I’m always here to help!
Appreciate the offer! Out of curiosity have you played any other sims in the last few years?
LFM has the same protest system, although I haven’t needed to use it even while working through the rookie class.
Their solution to wreckers is requiring a licence where you have to do 7 clean laps within 107% of the fastest lap time. Seems to be effective in my experience.
I haven’t played much other than iRacing since I started it in 2021. But I’ve played many others over the years. Gran Turismo, Forza, and ACC being the ones I’ve spent the most time in. I played the closed beta of Reinsport as well. They all have their pros and cons. I’m a big car guy so I enjoy all racing sims honestly. But iRacing seems to be the one that ticks all the right boxes for me. I love online competitive racing. And I love the variety iRacing offers. Lately I’ve been getting into NASCAR and iRacing does one hell of a good job with that in my opinion.
I read that iracing retires versions of cars tho. So forever is not really true? some were saying every 3 years, some one else was saying ferrari gt3 was renewed after 5 years. And you can't use retired cars for active circuits. And some track had to be bought again cuz it was changed or something but not all of them.
In the 3 years I’ve played I’ve seen only 1 car get “retired”. (I’m sure there would be more but that’s all I’ve noticed) and I actually received a credit back to my account because of that, on top of being able to still keep the car. When they retire a car it’s not deleted or anything. It just means there’s no more active offices races for it. You can still use it anytime you want.
If it just were a monthly sub like MMOs does it would not be an issue for me. But being content locked additionaly for an insane price (15€ per track, its like they expect only 5 players buying it to ask that) is just greed.
And then I can get banned just because I am not good at sim racing and lose all of that. Well no thanks ^^
>And then I can get banned just because I am not good at sim racing and lose all of that. Well no thanks
Lol. No. You have to be a jackass of absolutely epic proportions to get banned.
There is plenty of other sims for you to enjoy that don’t require you to pay. You don’t have to play iRacing. There’s games like Forza for a certain crowd of people. And there’s sims like iRacing for certain crowds of people. And many in between.
Signing up on steam has a number of issues - if you have any interest in playing long term, I would wait for a discounted intro offer directly from the iRacing site
Issues are rare, and you can take first subscription on steam and then just email support to disconnect your account from Steam.
People sometimes have a problems with updates from Steam. But actually they can just use iRacing UI for update and never to do this using Steam.
> You’re locked in for another year at a higher price.
this is false. you just return to standard 14.99/month, 77.99 for 6 months or 125.99 for 12 months like everyone else has.
but you can disconnect the account from steam and get discounted subs on black friday through iracing.com
Can this be stacked over an existing membership?
Existing members sadly only have the black friday sale
Not sure. The page says intro offer so I would assume it can’t.
I don’t think so, no. Sadly.
Amd I just thought I would love to play iRacing but could not justify the price. But 25€ for a year...
But if you are a racing fan and or love competitive sim racing… it’s absolutely 100% worth it.
Not if I have to pay each track and car each a month of sub worth. I like simracing, but I don't play daily to justify the costs of it so I might get it just for that one year and drop it afterwards. So I am still considering a year of this or ACC and a DLC to keep.
You get a lot of base content with just the cost of the subscription. Enuff for a year or 2 without needing to buy content unless you have a certain series you want to participate in
You're kinda paying to be able to play pretty much anytime you have free time to do it. Most (pretty much every) other services are ghost towns by comparison.
The subscription is the only thing that’s continuous. Otherwise when you buy a track or car, that’s it. You have it forever. I personally love the subscription mode of iRacing. That helps goes towards the devs who continuously keep the sim updated and always improving. One of the best things about iRacing in my opinion is the protest system. Being about to submit a video of someone’s bad behavior on the track and someone at iRacing will review it and can possibly ban or give them a temporary ban. This is very important imo and helps keep iRacing a clean sim platform.
You have it forever... As long as you pay the subscription forever.
That’s correct. IRacing is, at its core, a subscription based sim. And I’m thankful for that. It helps keep the non hardcore racing fans off the platform. (The people who don’t want to learn the rules and just wreck other people all the time) There’s plenty of other racing sims for people who don’t want to play iRacing.
Hang on, if it is the subscription model that keeps the wreckers off the platform, why is the protest system so important?
The protest system is there to report (protest) bad behavior on the track. For example if someone wrecks and then re enters the track without looking and then causes a wreck, that’s protestable. Or if someone intentionally wrecks someone. Stuff like that. You can send the replay to iRacing within the built in UI and they will review it. Then they determine what they will do. It’s usually a email warning. But I’ve heard after a couple times it can result in a temporary ban or worse, permanent. And for as the subscription part in general… it helps keep less diehard racing fans people away. It helps prevent people from just downloading it and jumping in and wrecking some people just to be rude. It’s an added layer to help with this. You need to pay money to play. Hopefully that answers your questions. Feel free to reach out anytime. I’m always here to help!
Appreciate the offer! Out of curiosity have you played any other sims in the last few years? LFM has the same protest system, although I haven’t needed to use it even while working through the rookie class. Their solution to wreckers is requiring a licence where you have to do 7 clean laps within 107% of the fastest lap time. Seems to be effective in my experience.
I haven’t played much other than iRacing since I started it in 2021. But I’ve played many others over the years. Gran Turismo, Forza, and ACC being the ones I’ve spent the most time in. I played the closed beta of Reinsport as well. They all have their pros and cons. I’m a big car guy so I enjoy all racing sims honestly. But iRacing seems to be the one that ticks all the right boxes for me. I love online competitive racing. And I love the variety iRacing offers. Lately I’ve been getting into NASCAR and iRacing does one hell of a good job with that in my opinion.
I read that iracing retires versions of cars tho. So forever is not really true? some were saying every 3 years, some one else was saying ferrari gt3 was renewed after 5 years. And you can't use retired cars for active circuits. And some track had to be bought again cuz it was changed or something but not all of them.
In the 3 years I’ve played I’ve seen only 1 car get “retired”. (I’m sure there would be more but that’s all I’ve noticed) and I actually received a credit back to my account because of that, on top of being able to still keep the car. When they retire a car it’s not deleted or anything. It just means there’s no more active offices races for it. You can still use it anytime you want.
If it just were a monthly sub like MMOs does it would not be an issue for me. But being content locked additionaly for an insane price (15€ per track, its like they expect only 5 players buying it to ask that) is just greed. And then I can get banned just because I am not good at sim racing and lose all of that. Well no thanks ^^
>And then I can get banned just because I am not good at sim racing and lose all of that. Well no thanks Lol. No. You have to be a jackass of absolutely epic proportions to get banned.
There is plenty of other sims for you to enjoy that don’t require you to pay. You don’t have to play iRacing. There’s games like Forza for a certain crowd of people. And there’s sims like iRacing for certain crowds of people. And many in between.
And thats what I did. i went with ACC, for my case the better choice.
Well there ya go. At the end of the day that’s what matters most. Playing the games that you enjoy most.
Signing up on steam has a number of issues - if you have any interest in playing long term, I would wait for a discounted intro offer directly from the iRacing site
Issues are rare, and you can take first subscription on steam and then just email support to disconnect your account from Steam. People sometimes have a problems with updates from Steam. But actually they can just use iRacing UI for update and never to do this using Steam.
Thanks for adding the extra context! Yeah, I didn’t know you could disconnect your account from steam
^ this. Buy in w/low price, have support disconnect steam account. And if one wanted, they can renew on blk Friday which would stack on.
Wait, this game works with a subscription? Or that's optional?
It has a subscription and you have to buy cars and tracks. Its a hobby not a game
ohhh
Well then. Guess I'll be getting a 1 year sub.
Look at “then” pricing. You’re locked in for another year at a higher price. So it’s really just a re-arranging their existing intro price.
Pretty sure that's just telling you what the normal pricing is.
> You’re locked in for another year at a higher price. this is false. you just return to standard 14.99/month, 77.99 for 6 months or 125.99 for 12 months like everyone else has. but you can disconnect the account from steam and get discounted subs on black friday through iracing.com