Comments on: Codemasters barred from creating blog about their F1 game

By: eladkse

eladkse — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:40:31 +0000

The only reason the cost for the gamne licence is so high is so the FOM can keep Bernie’s bank manager happy.

By: Vettel the next Schumacher

Vettel the next Schumacher — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:30:51 +0000

I guarantee that its a time/money concern for top brass… either that, or this is some sort of hip marketing BS.
I don’t like it and they are just irritating fans. There is NO CONSPIRACY. It’s all just a joke. I’d be more optimistic but I understand they aren’t releasing the game until October of this year. Other than the cars, the game should be ready by now and it shouldn’t take a 300 member team 7 months to draw up the cars. All I can say for certain is that Codemasters better deliver in a big big way if they are going to do F1 any justice.

Additionally, I realize that they probably weren’t sure 2 years ago that the economy was going to continue down down down, but by the time they release the game, its possible nobody will either have the money or want to pay the few dollars they have to buy a $60 game(crappy USD). They’d do better to release it mid-season if they want to capitalize on it.

Dear Codemasters, I am not a fan of yours at all lately and I hope that the few of you who read any of these posts will take the information to your bosses and let them know how angry/irritated the fans are with all of the stupid moves you’ve made in this process. No blog? Really? Really? There is no reason developers couldn’t post a few comments on the process or release some more screen shots. Let me say this again in case one of you post… There is NO REASON period. Start handling your affairs properly or expect sales to be low and NOBODY wants to lose their jobs in this market where whole companies are going to start disappearing. Start respecting your consumers interests.

By: Tom Davies

Tom Davies — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:00:51 +0000

Anonymouse, what happened to Geoff Crammond?

Grand Prix 4 was by far my favourite racing game. Still is actually. Just… the sheer randomness of it. And being able to save half way through a race, when doing the full race distance if you needed to, like, go to work or something haha.

By: Jonathan Pulliam

Jonathan Pulliam — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:24:29 +0000

You guys just don’t get it. The “license” to use “F1″ isn’t worth 30 cents, much less 30 million dollars, to any true racing sim enthusiast. The features that are historically “missing” from these games (except for driving handling and driving physics ) are UN-SUPPLIABLE in the context of what F1 is courageous enough to license. Unobtanium. “Ain’t gonna happen”.

Make the cars & tracks LIKE F1, but NOT NOT NOT F1. Do you know what verisimilitude means??

Codemaster’s arrogance on this subject just takes the god damn cake!! You’re very naive to think they give so much as a a rat’s snotball about your suggestions. EVERY software corporate counsel who ever drew his invertebrate, slime covered form into vertical says NO to BLOGS. That’s one major reason why the products their clients produce so consistently underwhelm their customer base.

Codemaster’s final F1 2009 product is VIRTUALLY GUARANTEED TO SUCK. It’s on a so-called “suckage trajectory”. I’ve already explained why in a separate post. You dopes are such RUBES!!! Half the features you ask for are preposterously NON-FEASIBLE.

Be honest. Of the SEVERAL HUNDRED racing games out there, are ANY OF THEM really stand-out great? The answer is NO. NOT ONE. So what are the odds that this purported “sim” is anything but the same old disappointment-in-the-making?
Answer: ASTRONOMICAL against.

You F1 guys have gotten as brand-conscious as a 14-year old girl. Like some half-inbred NASCAR hickster. You deserve what codemasters’ is gonna give you, and that ain’t much.

By: cgmasson

cgmasson — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:49:58 +0000

Perhaps it would be seen as conflicting with the FOM agreement with the BBC on coverage?

By: Dan Brunell

Dan Brunell — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:36:18 +0000

Just to back up what “Anynonimouse” was saying, about 4 years ago, I was at a software conference in Seattle where there were some people there from EA. Being a quizitive F1 fan and business reporter, I asked about why they stop making their F1 game. The response from one of them was “Formula One’s management was by far the most difficult sporting body we ever had to deal with… They restricted our creativity (like a interactive manager mode and other features that they wanted to add but was killed by FOM) and what we had to pay for a license made it not worth it… We will never work with them again.”

I really think that F1 is hurting itself by being so restrictive about their licenses and agreements. I really hoped that they would of learned their lesson, but apparently they have not.

By: ajokay

ajokay — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:39:29 +0000

Because the damage modelling was always so incredible in the Grand Prix games, I’d most often use them as a ‘most awesome first-corner crash simulator’. I had some doozies.

Hopefully the new Codies game will have a good damage and car failure model. I know GRID does, it’s a beautiful looking game, now if it just wern’t so damned awful to play.

By: Anonymouse

Anonymouse — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:51:24 +0000

“Many thanks to Anynonimouse for his insights, got any more???”

Yeah, I could tell you a few. lol.

Like the subcontractor who let us down with 5 months to go, leaving us with 14 track sceneries outstanding, resulting in yours truely sleeping on the office floor for a few months…….Ever been so tired that you dream…when you blink?……I’d never felt it before or since, but I felt it then…most weird…..lol.

S’good fun though…but hard hard work……Neil Duffield said it best. “We get paid to sit on our ass, and think for a living”……

By: SoLiD

SoLiD — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:57:40 +0000

It’s probably a contract issue with sony who owns the f1 game rights till the end of the year or somthing…
My money is on that

By: Smitty

Smitty — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:08:10 +0000

I won’t be buying it unless it gets good reviews and the reviews say that the game has good realism. I’ve been screwed over with unsatisfying F1 games for too long.