Did they abonded updates for Dirt Rally 2.0 and will there be 3.0

[MadZec]

As title said, did they abandoned for Dirt Rally 2.0 totally and updates and hotfixes totally?
And did anyone heard any mention on some Dirt Rally 3.0 I mean this game is legend in Rally games so why would they abandone a proper great model for a game (I never loved or played WRC games)

[turtleCZ]

What? It's released game and it's complete already.

[MadZec]

It is but it is never enough maps and cars....

[Imo]

Enough cars for me but could get more maps to rally indeed!

[Hoksu]

They stopped updating DR2.0 a year ago. Imo they could at least have fixed some of the most glaring problem first, like the broken rallycross AI and Finland in daytime looking terrible due to a horrifically botched visual update.

There will not be a Dirt Rally 3 but there will be EA Sports WRC annually re-released the same way like F1 and FIFA and such. And probably including gross microtransactions

[MadZec]

Originally posted by Hoksu:

They stopped updating DR2.0 a year ago. Imo they could at least have fixed some of the most glaring problem first, like the broken rallycross AI and Finland in daytime looking terrible due to a horrifically botched visual update.

There will not be a Dirt Rally 3 but there will be EA Sports WRC annually re-released the same way like F1 and FIFA and such. And probably including gross microtransactions

You do have some source to confirm on that? If so put link please.
I mean EA making some sport yearly released game would not be surprising at all. But nobody making some other good game on it, or maybe continuing franchize would be silly.

[Ochso]

Many posts and press releases on the matter.
Patch notes state quite simply that the game was classed as ' content complete' well over a year ago. the key phrase in them being "This is the game's final update;" ( took them a couple of patches to reach it but thats it.)

As for the easily accessed history: a brief synopsis

Dirt rally 3 development began being hinted at by directors May 2020 .
(Cynical view - roughly the same time as tenders for the WRC franchise were being studied and initial interest noted from Take 2 interactive)

June 2020 they (CM) secured the WRC series development deal. from 2023

Take 2 interactive allegedly secured a deal to buy CM for circa $980M Nov 2020

Codemasters sold out / was bought by EA for circa $1.2B the deal being accepted by CMs board Dec 2020 and finalised in Feb 2021.
No official statements regarding further DR3.0 development .
The last director of CM left July 2021 .

CM are now for all intents and purposes just a department of EA and are subject to EAs game release policy ( currently 1 racing title developed per year) having next to no say in what they are allowed to release or develop.

Personal inferences on the EA WRC game:

WRC 2023 release is 99% certainly based on the UE engine . So expect great graphics but questionable as to whether the physics data can be carried onto the mesh in the density required for rally especially more so for console.

It will be developed and paid for as per the contract with the FIA (WRC).
How its developed is subject to CM ( with EA approval), content will as per contract with additional content subject to agreements.
How the game "drives" (ie 'Sim' or Arcade ) and its target audience age - subject to the contract.
Annual release date usually 1st week Sept. with no doubt a 6-12 week 'bug fix' support window .

All main current WRC named competitors and cars . As will the countries involved for that season. with minimal historic content.

Origin account required with early exclusivity a probability for PC.

So not looking promising. But as always, hope to be proven wrong after all what the contract content limitations contains will remain an unknown until its release.

Where as the Dirt Rally series was based on the "Generations of Rally" the WRC title will be to promote that Current years' WRC season.
If CM had not secured the WRC franchise then DR3.0 would no doubt ,have been released by now.

On the plus side OP Looking on the bright side with your 155 hours of in game play you will have barely scratched the surface of what the game can offer.

Assuming you have GOTY and not including Rally cross
with 56 or so rally cars breaks down to less than 3 hours per car
Circa 12 hours per 13 countries which is 3 hours per long stage in perfect conditions.. add weather and time and you luckily still have an awful lot of driving ( and if you are like me crashing) to do ..

[jonnie2bad]

An Origin exclusivity deal will be a hard pass with no intentions of buying in the future from me. I'm already at a low percentage of buying it based on it being an EA project now. I can see the cover already, Seb Ogier with his arms folded and his best grumpy face on with his car coming over a crest behind him front wheels off the ground slightly. This is a predictable disaster of a game.

[MadZec]

Originally posted by jonnie2bad:

An Origin exclusivity deal will be a hard pass with no intentions of buying in the future from me. I'm already at a low percentage of buying it based on it being an EA project now. I can see the cover already, Seb Ogier with his arms folded and his best grumpy face on with his car coming over a crest behind him front wheels off the ground slightly. This is a predictable disaster of a game.

Last Origin game was Star Wars Fallen Order (only because it was on Steam) and I was bit sceptical on it but it was good one..
But if they make it locked for Origin only (though I doubt that they will do it since even Fifa is released on Steam too...... but I will wait for a good time after release to see how it will go...

[Jon the VGNerd]

Originally posted by turtleCZ:

What? It's released game and it's complete already.

And yet the lagging/stuttering issues still persist so... pretty far from complete if it's still unoptimized.

[turtleCZ]

Originally posted by Jon the VGNerd:

Originally posted by turtleCZ:

What? It's released game and it's complete already.

And yet the lagging/stuttering issues still persist so... pretty far from complete if it's still unoptimized.

It's complete from their side.

[cyäegha]

Originally posted by Jon the VGNerd:

And yet the lagging/stuttering issues still persist so... pretty far from complete if it's still unoptimized.

the game being "feature complete" and being an unstable, hot mess beholden to an online authentication system that is equally unstable are not necessarily the same thing