Leaderboard filter, please?

[Adam Beckett]

... if you HAVE to force 'online' EA-style, even for Single-Player, at least allow me - and all of us - to filter the fastest laps by actual comparable criteria, instead putting everyone in one basket and declaring players using all assists above players who play with no assists.

Otherwise, you are just stealing everyone's bandwidth (up-downstream syncing all the time) for your pleasure of pretending that there is a 'thrilling competition' going on ... which there is not.

I do not mind being worse than other players. i do mind being shown how 'cheating' players are valued on leaderboards above 'proper' racers.

To be clear, I have nothing against players using assists! You use all the assists you want or even need (impaired players!). I just would appreciate to filter the leaderboards by "this guy used the same settings as I did and is faster/slower than me".

You have all the data from players due to your enforced analytics. You just chose not to share, so the leaderboards look ... full? "Everyone is a winner?". EA psychologists telling you to do so? Why?

[Andrei STAMA]

Leaving the conspiracy theory aside, yes, I wish they implement filters for the TT list. Much more fun to practice and better understanding of my results. Minimum filters for me: keyboard/gamepad versus wheel, cockpit camera versus Tcam (or any other view), zero assists versus any/all assists, default setup versus custom setup, equal versus realistic car performance. I only use cockpit view (calculated display+wheel+seat position and in-game realistic POV, with halo), zero assists, realistic cars, custom setups. I'm not Max Verstappen, but I am somewhere in the first 25-30% in that list. Where I actually see a lot of assists and maybe Tcam... so that's not relevant. Yeah, some filters would be nice. But I'm sure this is not a priority for them.

[Adam Beckett]

I do not know why Codemasters, EA or both do not see the additional 'value'. It is a selling point for me.

Being able to compare your actual performance with someone else - isn't that the reason why 'leaderboards' and 'ranking' exists in online games, in the first place?

I remember racing games in arcades. You wanted to beat the guy ahead of you. In those times. There was never a question, if you beat him fair and square. There was no other way.

Not sure, if they will ever change this. They clearly had meetings in which they decided against this ... for whatever reasons.

I do always imagine people in suits, in those meetings, with maybe a single ex-developer (now producer) present. Everyone else has a business degree in marketing and is running around with spreadsheets, doing powerpoint 'retention' analysis.