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Sega probably still is if this deal goes through (it won’t) and I’d bet money on them going for EA and/or Ubisoft too.

After all they gotta get the games for IndiePass somehow. After all Microsoft doesn’t know how to make a successful game. All they know how to do is get the cheque book out and buy games for Xbox.

🐂💩. It allows them a larger profit margin. It’s pure greed plain and simple. There is absolutely no reason a physical version can’t be just as polished. Even if it means waiting an extra few months for the physical version. I refuse to buy digital games so I’ll be giving this a miss until it comes to PS Plus. Or I’ll just give it a miss altogether if it never does.

@LiamCroft only season 1 offers a free premium battle pass as it’s “included” with the base game. Season 2 will have paid battle passes and cosmetics.

Did you read anything about this game? I guess not.

It’s a paid live service game that WILL go away in a few years and be unplayable. So would we get our money back? Of course not. It’s why live service games should be free with in game purchases. But this blatant cash grab is a paid game WITH in game purchases. That’s a hard pass.

£49.99 is NOT a budget game.

A. It’s £49.99 not £59.99.
B. It’s still £40 too much.

I’m sure the length of time between an EA games release and it coming to EA Play gets shorter every year. I’ll look forward to playing F1 23 in November on EA Play. After all it’s not worth any actual money.

@Northern_munkey I recommend you try F1 2020 or 2021. Probably the best since Codies got the licence.

300MB is fine. Unlike some games where the day one patch is larger than the actual game.

Hope it’s longer than the first one. Only complaint was it’s way too short.

Never pre-order.

Would you buy a car without looking at it?

I played it during the last beta. It’s terrible. You’re not missing much.

That blows. I was kinda hoping for a native PS5 version of Part II.

@Dloki if you didn’t like 22 you won’t find 23 a lot different with a pad. It seemed marginally better with a wheel but still not great.

@Dloki not joking or bs’g. It’s just my personal opinion of the game and the handling of the cars. I liked the way the cars handle in F1 2021 but F1 22 was terrible. 23 is a small improvement on the physics but still feel inferior to me.

This is the first F1 game to be developed in its entirety since EA bought Codemasters and boy does it show. There are microtransactions galore, £3 for a pair of digital trainers, really?

As for the game itself Codemasters have brought absolutely nothing new to the table. The cars still feel terrible to drive with no feel to them at all and the audio is absolutely terrible. The helicopters that fly around the track are so loud they drown out the car noise and even the engineer.

Your headline “FIFA experience for F1 fans” is very accurate though. Another annual sports title that is functionally identical to its predecessor with some very minor updates. Even the bugs from F1 22 have somehow carried over to F1 23 as further proof of the copy/paste dev cycle of annual sports games.

Avoid this one if it’s not already too late. Fortunately I didn’t have to pay for my copy or I’d be furious.