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Im not saying this just to sound like Im defending the DF stuff, but I would not say the "lack" of people by any means. The number of people running all the various dirt mods, from SimWizards, SBS, KiwiDirt, HAR, 321, etc.... I would say for being mid to late summer the numbers are rather impressive. The daily growth and downloads on the SWR site really show just this. I think that is the key though more than anything is the time of the year.
I had someone ask me about the forum being slow and I showed them the forum from the old sites during various years at this same time and a lot of the activity does ten to slow. You don't see as many leagues, you dont see people painting as much. The interest is there but people are just doing other things.
As for the iRacing thing, its a decent concept from the business side of things, but looking from the fan side in, it really kind of sucks. Granted you get awesome quality when you want new tracks or types of cars because you are getting pro level development and not something thrown together overnight. Heck they need to do all they can with the money they have invested in their laser point system they are using to put tracks and cars in the game. VERY little is done by hand and that is where they get the immense amount of detail and virtual perfection in the scale of the models. I just don't know if it is going to pan out for them if they don't get some major form of racing that will draw big numbers of people in. However, they do have some MAJOR money behind them. Put it this way, the money behind them makes EA Sports seem tiny. They are working off of one of the best ever game engines, and with the core group being the core group of the former Papyrus team. They have some time to get this all up and running, but I just question how long do they have before the money that is backing them says "ok enough is enough". My opinion is that they are focusing their efforts on forms of racing that are not really drawing in the big numbers of drivers right now and that is what could ultimately hurt them even more than the pay to play idea.
As for the Planetwide Games deal, their contract/license with WRG expired if Im not mistaken in May and they did not reup on it.
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