F1 26 Revealed as Paid Expansion for F1 25, Next New Game in 2027

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Really doesn’t make any sense to not do this approach across the board, with how much of a “live service” everything is becoming now. Not sure why the sports game genre is clinging to its old business model even as loyal fans are demanding they become live services.
 
I mean, we kinda know why sports games love re-releasing "expansions" wrapped up as new games: $$$

The question will be how much this expansion will cost. Last time something like this happened was 15 with the 14 season included with the game (though, and I might be way off base, I think that only exists because of how terrible 14 was).

Gotta be honest, it's personally somewhat odd that they're decided to do this now with F1 25 instead of with 26 considering the new regulation changes that year. Wouldn't it make more sense to use 26 as the basis for future games? But I can also see that maybe they didn't have enough time to create the F1 27 "experience" in 26. I just hope it's not like the NASCAR games that were released around the time they switched to the Next-Gen car and both Ignition AND Heat 5 had half-baked versions of that expansion.
 
Gerarghini
I mean, we kinda know why sports games love re-releasing "expansions" wrapped up as new games: $$$

The question will be how much this expansion will cost. Last time something like this happened was 15 with the 14 season included with the game (though, and I might be way off base, I think that only exists because of how terrible 14 was).

Gotta be honest, it's personally somewhat odd that they're decided to do this now with F1 25 instead of with 26 considering the new regulation changes that year. Wouldn't it make more sense to use 26 as the basis for future games? But I can also see that maybe they didn't have enough time to create the F1 27 "experience" in 26. I just hope it's not like the NASCAR games that were released around the time they switched to the Next-Gen car and both Ignition AND Heat 5 had half-baked versions of that expansion.
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Answered it yourself there really as to why, time.
 
Gerarghini
I mean, we kinda know why sports games love re-releasing "expansions" wrapped up as new games: $$$

The question will be how much this expansion will cost. Last time something like this happened was 15 with the 14 season included with the game (though, and I might be way off base, I think that only exists because of how terrible 14 was).

Gotta be honest, it's personally somewhat odd that they're decided to do this now with F1 25 instead of with 26 considering the new regulation changes that year. Wouldn't it make more sense to use 26 as the basis for future games? But I can also see that maybe they didn't have enough time to create the F1 27 "experience" in 26. I just hope it's not like the NASCAR games that were released around the time they switched to the Next-Gen car and both Ignition AND Heat 5 had half-baked versions of that expansion.
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Much better to do it now.

Just like how F1 2014 was done as a fill gap for F1 2015 new engine on a big new reg era, the game was developed before real F1 2014 were on track. Engine sound was computer generated, physics had nothing to do with how the car behaved in race and steering wheel with display used a generic display.

Because they had no real data to base the game of, so it was mostly guesses from Codemaster pov.

Same happens with F1 26, better just do that "guess" season as a dlc and then use 2026 data to do a real 2027 engine with realistic behavior
 
I wonder how late in the year it would be. I would think they would need to collect data on the new cars before just throwing them out there. Late summer to early fall maybe?
 
Jezza819
I wonder how late in the year it would be. I would think they would need to collect data on the new cars before just throwing them out there. Late summer to early fall maybe?
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That would be too late I think. They'll get some data from the teams from the simulators they're running the 2026 development on, they'll also probably get livery data and whatnot ahead of time as well. They also have a circuit to make for the game.

I wouldn't expect it later than June personally.
 
I remember I had this idea a couple of weeks ago. Rather than releasing an entirely new £60-70 game every year, just release one game per big regulation change. Good to see that EA might be doing this in the future.
 
This is absolutely fantastic news and something us football fans have been crying out for for a long time time and defo the right direction for Sports games to give new iterations that extra year in the oven.
 
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Wow didn’t see that coming. But people have been asking for this. This and Battlefield 6 EA finally listening to the fans to an extent anyways.
 
Wait until the DLC price is £50. And with it being DLC only they can fix the price to whatever they want i.e no cheap second hand sales on disc.
 
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They should do 2027 as a DLC too.

Annual sportgame releases with minimal differences between them are just a blatent cashgrab for suckers.

I like the idea of a generational foundation game with each year adding to it. Up until the next generation.
 
pizza93878
I remember I had this idea a couple of weeks ago. Rather than releasing an entirely new £60-70 game every year, just release one game per big regulation change. Good to see that EA might be doing this in the future.
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Yeah this has been posted numerous time on the EA forums - its never been made clear if there were licensing constraints requiring a full release or just EA wanting to get the max $$ on price. I think this is likely just a one off again like @kakauiyt said above for 2014 but it would be a better way going forward

But glad to hear its going to continue - hopefully the added F1 involvement will be more focused on racing, less Drive to Survive drama and crazy game modes

The whole engine desparately needs a rewrite - forever bugs, tired UI, constant network waits etc so 2027 needs to be more than just DLC
 
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I guess I’ll be the first here to mention that WRC was going for this exact strategy last year.

Even though WRC met an untimely end I guess the Seasonal DLC experiment was successful enough for EA to consider replicating it on F1.
 
PJTierney
I guess I’ll be the first here to mention that WRC was going for this exact strategy last year.

Even though WRC met an untimely end I guess the Seasonal DLC experiment was successful enough for EA to consider replicating it on F1.
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Are Codies enjoying AC Rally? Must be a real eye opener for them.
 
I guess that makes sense with the 2027 WRC Regulations(?, I'm not well versed in WRC lore but I've heard that was the case).
 

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