Ah, but you said racing or driving. And although drifting it's not strictly "racing" it sure is driving and requires serious driving skills.
Well, yeah, I said driving and racing, to differentiate from drifting. Like, I sincerely doubt you'll learn a thing about how to be either a good racer
or drifter at driving school.
Yes you are right, personalization, if it comes, will probably be off-limits on-line so you don't have to DL download everyones car.
This is what you don't understand, because of your anti-livery bias. The whole crux of online clubs, teams and racing leagues in Forza and numerous PC games such as Live For Speed is in customizing race cars with identifiable liveries. Or even single racers running without a team mate. All are encouraged to create some kind of unique livery including main and secondary sponsors different from other drivers, and they sort this out so that no two cars look identical or have the same sponsors unless on an identified team. I recall that one league even had a rule that the rear view mirror housing had to be painted a different color in contrast to the color beside or below it. And of course all were either assigned or allowed to chose unique numbers, and the number plaques included race specific sponsor decals.
These are not dumb rules. They are cool. This is what real racers do in the real world, just like meeting performance and part requirements. It's a part of what makes you a member of the league and identifies your car to your fans. And yeah, these guys even have fans and groupies after a fashion.
You seem to not have a clue how much we racing - and drifting - fans enjoy seeing the liveries of our fave race heroes unveiled each year when there are changes, and how this is a very cool part of PC games and games like Forza, where we can have that same capability. To create a unique race car with a unique identity.
Our car, with
our name and
our number on the door, hood and possibly window, and
our unique paint job. Not someone else's.
I don't think you can foresee how much disappointment and then chaos is going to erupt if we don't have liveries in GT5, when either leagues fight over race cars in the game to choose as their online racing identities, or perhaps even kill the whole idea of any kind of online groups or leagues, save for a stubborn remainder who insist on making
something work. And that's something I at least want to see, even if I don't participate in because I just don't have the time to devote to an online club. The online groups are just what I'm looking forward to, as they work on league rules, and develop team colors and select sponsors. And you know it has to be a huge boost to a guy's ego for one of these groups impressed with the work of alba, Loon, me, or any of the guys creating awesome liveries now in the Forza section to design a scheme for their cars.
A Gran Turismo 5 without this aspect of real life racing online will be very disappointing.
Yeah, I can paint up my model cars in Forza 3 and admire them once in a while, but that'll be a pretty shoddy door prize.
