Fanatec can not force a game developer to support such feature(s) but when the game developers listen to the community then it is obvious what they will do.
All the CSL elite PS4 features are supported in Assetto Corsa on PS4, why is that?
Back to GTS and PS4, for any wheel to be compatible with a game on Sony PS4, any company has to go through a process via sony to make this happen.
Legal contract in place, sdk to purschase and make it happen and then probably submit the work done to sony to approve it and then bam you are “officially licnesed”.
So is Fanatec at fault here? Or did PD choose to ignore fanatec because of the official thrustmaster wheel (which is way expensive than Fanatec for once?)
I blame PD when i put it this way...
it is a fact that PS4 has now three officially licensed wheel companies and Fanatec is one of them whichever way you want to see it.
when a developer chooses to ignore that FACT then it is not a smart move but it is all about making money which means not giving people choices...
It is a fact that all the officially licensed wheel companies for the PS4 that their products function and provide the basic functions to be operational on the PS4 therefore fulfilling the compatibility license requirements.
Regardless of what we as gamer's want to believe these companies making games or control products to use within these games are in this to make a profit for their company and in the case of competing wheel companies it was Thrust Master that was the company successful in negotiating a contract to be the "official" wheel of GTS and it is very likely that agreement and legal contract had specific wording regarding PD in having the freedom or ability to optimize the game for a competing wheel/pedal controller product.
Such an agreement would be in the best interest to both Thrust Master and PD as far as a profit generating action for both companies as many consumers would in fact choose an optimized product with advanced functions over a competing product that only offered basic control functions. Without such restrictions why enter into any contract to be the "official" exclusive product?
From just a business perspective as a company if I have an agreement with a company giving me say a percentage of the profit for every "official" wheel sold why would I willingly without a legal obligation optimize a competing product that may reduce the sales of a product that generates a profit for my company for a company that all of its profits goes into that companies pocket?
In my opinion I still say the original problem was due to Fanatec overselling and falsely advertising their products capabilities and advanced functions within certain games without having the proper legal agreements or contracts in place in advance of placing their advertisements guaranteeing the products to function within the games at the levels they claimed they would as the advertisements originally claimed.
Now those advertisements have been reworded and the original claims are no longer being made but how do you place blame on PD for Fanatec originally making false claims that apparently they had no legal binding rights to make to sell their products to customers that paid their money buying a product that they were fully led to believe would offer all advanced functions for all future PS4 games.
The actual facts are that the Fanatec companies product to offer more than the most basic functions with the PS4 exclusive driving franchise game has to operate in a PS3 mode and emulate a several year old competing product to have any ffb functions at all.
Sorry to say but the facts say the company falsely advertised it products ability and compatibility with all games present and future on the PS4 platform and to this day has never actually admitted to that fact publicly to my knowledge.
Regardless the "fix" or bandaid and how it works shows who was responsible. If Fanatec had any type of legal binding contract or agreement with PD that would have supported its original advertising claims this would be a non issue and the Fanatec wheel would be optimized and listed on the contoller option page within the GTS game itself rather than emulating an aged competitors product outside of the game itself.
I do not understand how some consumers are standing behind and supporting a company that has flat out lied to them and apparently intentionally still continues to do so by trying to place the blame on someone else when it is pretty apparent by the companies actions that they legally could not ever make the claims they were originally making.
When i received GTS closed beta, i had to dig my old T300rs pedals from the basement (i literally wanted to throw them out) but this was the only way to play the closed beta. 
