with the seemly confirmation that T10 seems relegated to horizon support studio, it will be my last non-reply post in this thread and area of forum, unless some big update happens or a new motorsport game comes out
i also want to make a symbolical goodbye letter for FM as game and as series:
the only people that i blame for the situation of the game and series is the marketing departament, for lack of highsight, and the players, for lack of pacience and, motivated by ragebait videos, pushing the game down to the point it never comes back
now, my biggest fears has happened, market concenration is now more than realiy for racing games, the last bridge between arcade and sim outside of gran turismo has fallen, and with those, the split is hardned, the idea that gets sim and arcade together gets more and more impossible to happen again, outside of the niche indie scene
sim elitists will continue push racing games far away from the mainstream, while promoting the false idea to mainstream gaming devs that extreme difficulty disguised and falsely named as "realism" is what brings the money. fun and accessibility are for (in their words) for "babies or for people that never touched a car in their lifes", if your game doesnt support a G29 at launch or dont drives the most impossible way unless you have a ffb wheel, your game is DOA, they will say. fill the game wittht some exotic gt3 instead of cheapboxes or we will boycott your game, they will claim.
Even the few remaining sim-cade series like Horizon or wreckfest will, eventually, be thrown into this dillema, and, if they do a step seem as misteep for the community, it will also risk the same fate as motorsport had been. eventually, all racing games in mainstream space will be overtly sims or overtly arcade, no more middle-ground
In a time we need more and more games to show the average person why cars are cool, it seems that the most vocal parts of community seems more intrested in doing the exactly opposite, outside of Horizon and The Crew, the only mainstream arcade games are kart racers, the two more talked games of mainstream right now are mario kart and sonic racing, both games feature no real car whatsoever and those will be the racing games the avg gamer will play, not Asseto Corsa or Project Motor Racing
I dare to say that in the next years or so, that outside of Horizon and The Crew, we wont see any mainstream sim-cade or arcade racing game feauring real cars, some indie games like tokyo extreme, may pop out and be really good games, but they wont be big enough to get public attention and thus breaking this bad cycle
it saddens me tha a space filled with so many racing games in 2000s-2010s was now reduced to it...
I hope those continue being ramblings instead of a dystopic prophecy about the racing game space, butm sadly, i see those becoming more and more reality, and the death of motorsport is just proof of that...
