Annual release?

[Sarieghost]

All evidence (50% off within a couple months, general feeling that the game is abandoned based on what I've heard other players say, season 5 ending sometime in 2024) points to it, but I can't seem to find any confirmation.

Am I better off just sticking to DR2?

[Morethan2Letters]

The games 25 bucks, why you complaining?

[stburr91]

This game is still quite crude, and needs a lot of refinement, I would just stick with DR2.

[Sarieghost]

Originally posted by stburr91:

This game is still quite crude, and needs a lot of refinement, I would just stick with DR2.

Thanks for actually replying to my question. A rare sight these days for sure.

[Morethan2Letters]

Originally posted by hbu4ti:

Originally posted by 8d3:

The games 25 bucks, why you complaining?

Who's complaining? And why is your profile private?

The games worth $25 bucks, and because.

[Frey]

yes wrc 24 soon announced.

[Werner]

WRC still has some problems, yes. But i have a lot of fun with it. More then with DR 2.0

[Morethan2Letters]

Even at 49.99 it was worth it as it also included DR 2.0 when it first released.

[HΞNRiK]

What actually would be kinda neat is if they kept pushing updates for the game to always reflect the current season by adding, never removing, tracks and cars ... at least until they do a major update because of revisions to the Unreal Engine. Obviously you'd pay for a yearly DLC and Codemasters has secured the WRC license until 2027.

Will you be running low on hard drive space? :P

[Morethan2Letters]

Originally posted by HΞNRiK:

What actually would be kinda neat is if they kept pushing updates for the game to always reflect the current season by adding, never removing, tracks and cars ... at least until they do a major update because of revisions to the Unreal Engine. Obviously you'd pay for a yearly DLC and Codemasters has secured the WRC license until 2027.

Will you be running low on hard drive space? :P

That sounds like a Live Service game, and those always fail with maybe the exception of Fortnite.

[Alice Cooper]

Originally posted by aitorgg94:

All evidence (50% off within a couple months, general feeling that the game is abandoned based on what I've heard other players say, season 5 ending sometime in 2024) points to it, but I can't seem to find any confirmation.

Am I better off just sticking to DR2?

Yes.

[ZeroAffex]

EAWRC FTW

[Geth Android]

They know the community is very much against this franchise becoming an annual release title like F1 is. If it wasn't going to be an annual release they surely would have mentioned it by now to avoid even more hate towards the game. Saying that decision was still up in the air at launch was complete bollocks as they'd already be working on this years game around that time.

[ZeroAffex]

Lets see. EA WRC has more content than DR2.0, isn't always online and is at mixed ratings. Why on Earth would EA think doing a new release in 6 months is going to make people trust this company/franchise anymore now than it does now?

There's still a lot of DR2.0 players they can win over according to SteamDB. Yearly releases certainty won't do them any good and would only further alienate and divide this polarized community.

Plus, because EA WRC is so thick in content, they will need to deliver a bunch of new features and goodies to get people to buy another copy of WRC. People who've given this game a fair shake know there is a ton of replay value to be had and an abundance of content to chew on.

There was like 3-4 driver changes this season, a few new liveries and a couple new locations. Hardly enough to warrant a new release for.

Least if people are pushing back on a $25 WRC rally game now with all the bells and whistles it has. There's zero hope of a new release in 6 months doing much better. Codies fanbase is very tough to please. It would go over like a lead brick am sure.

They spent a lot of money for the WRC licensing. I doubt they are going to throw everything out the window now. Codies has always been known for post launch support for their titles. I don't see this going yearly.

If the ratings were better, I might see it. But at mixed, it would be career suicide for EA/Codies. They don't have the numbers to do yearly like they can with F1. Plain and simple. The dev work, marketing, licensings and all the other expenses would be more than what they would earn in dismal sales and even more bad PR.

[Geth Android]

This is EA we're talking about. They don't give a toss about releasing quality titles. They've been pushing out mediocre 6/10 games for years now. They have strong market share in the casual and simcade racing scene. Killed off Project Cars, after the flop that was the 3rd title, and have F1, WRC, NFS, GRID and maybe a few others I'm forgetting. None of those franchises are a shred of what they used to be yet people still buy them so they have no incentive to change the status quo.

WRC isn't going to have dramatic changes year on year; heck even a few years apart so waiting isn't going to dramatically change the scope of the game aside from a few new rallies here and there.

But yeah as you alluded to there's a lot of content in the current game so if they do release a game later this year I'm not budging. Got plenty of rallies to have fun with in time trials and club events to last me a long while. Unless the next game is a strong turnaround technically and runs smooth with much improved graphics on the level of DR2 or better I'm good.

[stburr91]

Originally posted by Geth Android:

But yeah as you alluded to there's a lot of content in the current game so if they do release a game later this year I'm not budging. Got plenty of rallies to have fun with in time trials and club events to last me a long while. Unless the next game is a strong turnaround technically and runs smooth with much improved graphics on the level of DR2 or better I'm good.

Yes, there isn't much incentive to buy an all new game later this year.

If you like this game, there's plenty in it to keep people playing for a while, or if you're like me, and find the driving very lackluster, there's no reason to buy more of this.