ACC is good, but it absolutely should not be the benchmark for a mainstream, and highly popular, Motorsport franchise. It would alienate an enormous part of the player base for F1 games. Sales would be hurt, the next game would need to he a repair job, faith lost from the mainstream, series goes down the pan.
As they aren't part of the 2022 season then yes your assumption is probably correct.
You know how pretty much every sports game on console/PC (well, at least the mainstream ones like FIFA, Madden, 2K, and The Show) are supposed to make anybody feel like they’re a pro athlete so they can sell the games to millions of people every year? That’s what the F1 games have been from the start, and that’s not going to change.
F1 is about as serious a simulation as anyone would want to put in a game directed towards a casual audience. It's not ACC, but it's probably a better sim than GT and FM. Add in that an F1 car is substantially more difficult to drive than a GT3 or GT4 car, and there's sensible reasons why the game is the way it is. They want to sell copies to people and for them to have fun playing it.
There's absolutely no evidence to suggest this game will have more EA influence than past games. It's still being developed by Codemasters and aside from a light rebrand, there is no reason to suggest it will structure any different to the already existing MTX/mild battle pass system Codemasters already had in place.
Filmsy excuse. There are no limits on what cars/contents to be added in a game. Why not just add both supercars (as useless as it sounds) and classic cars.
It's specifically an F1 game. Of course there are limits on what cars and content is added.
I wouldn't hope for too much from Codemasters, they don't usually 'finish' the game until half a year after release and even then I would be surprised if they had every circuit. It's still an improvement over their world rallycross games though where after 4 attempts they've still failed to get some of the championship contending cars in.
