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About 5 pages worth of people on the forums disagreed with you. [or 3. Someone asked about this on the forums. No one cares. It's week 13. It's unimportant. Most serious iRacers (about 70% of series participants) treat this as a goof-off week, they mostly stick around to test out the new game features, but a lot of people just go away for a week to get a break. Between them paying out Participation Credits for racing, the constant specials (black friday, etc), no one sees a few cents (13.8~ cents to be exact if you buy the Black Friday $50 for a year special) to be worth the hassle of getting an extra day when they already give us plenty of credits just for racing anyways. We'd rather them just take the money to make the sim better rather than ♥♥♥♥♥ about 60,000 players getting something worth 13.8 cents, requiring them to be paying some poor bloke to override their system to give them that extra... etc.
You're gonna fight a losing battle with that argument. (It's not going to happen, likely. If not because the devs won't want to, because the community already agreed for the most part they don't want it.)
Hope the damage is not too big and they can fix it soon. Very tempted to the new content ;D Not only me, i guess ;D So far patience and stay calm m8s!
Question:
Thinking here to add my iR account to steam. Can I use the old way over the browser to log in also or I am after the add limited to steam only log in? Dont want to be dependent to steam.
You can login via both. I do :)
Just go into your "My Account" (when the service is up) and get your key, then get it setup in steam. Note that there are some extra steps to copy your existing files to the new installation folder for steam. But once you do, you can have the steam overlay in game and etc. I find it useful to access my web programs for detailing setup changes :)
Edit: Also, there's an extra step to enable the steam overlay on the iRacing homepage. I forget where it is but I'll find the guide :D
Copy...? so you have 2x iR on disk? ;D Steam and nomal? Its no prob, place enogh... ;D
Yep, I know. here the guide:
"You can get the Steam overlay without adding iRacing to your library. Just go to the root of your iRacing installation (Default - C:\Program Files (x86)\iRacing), open "_useSteam.txt", and change the 0 to a 1. Of course, Steam won't log your hours for iRacing and it won't show up as in-game to your friends, but it's a good way to get the overlay without needing to add the game to Steam."
They also didn't purchase all the cars and all the tracks for me, for my account. I did.
When you put it all together and add everything up, iRacing comes off as a money hungry company, and then asks us to be patient to boot. Which I am for the most part, but when something I am paying for goes down, i expect to be compensated for it.
You don't go into a gas station, buy gas and then let the guy behind the counter borrow some of it back do you? No. Why should iRacing be any different?
Just because you pay for differents things : You have to understand the difference between a product (gas) and a service (iracing)
Have you ever had ISP outage, electricity outage, water outage, etc... ? did they give you money back ? have you ever been in front of a broken ATM ? did you request your bank some money back cause you were unable to use your card and you pay to have a card ?
When you pay for a service (instead of a product), you have no garantee (or it has to be stated in the contract as a SLA - Service Level Agreement) that the service will be available 100% of the time.
I used to work in payment solutions in banking, a serious business, our SLA allowed us to have 8hours of downtime in a single year. more than that and we had to pay financials penalties to our customers...
This is how the wolrd works, the gas station is absolutely not a business paradigm....
Agreed with Jeje here. If you want your $0.13 worth of a day back (one you'll probably be at work or etc anyways), you should contact the staff and ask them about it.
As far as I'm concerned, this is game-changing, pioneering racing sim stuff that's going on, so like in Apollo 13, work the problem guys and good luck!
Can't wait to give the ring a go!
What I do, is what every other diehard sim racer does, I'll file this as iRacing ♥♥♥♥♥♥ me again, and when I get fed up with it, I'll be done. Its up to them to decide if they want their service to have customers or not.