Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-28169398-20180928162210

Matt Edmondson stated this on Reddit.

Those affected cars will not be offered at a discount, or feature in new events or flashbacks before their retirement. Their prices will remain the same until they expire. This is part of our agreement with the licencors.

Thinking through why this might be the case, it occurred to me that it is possible that Firemonkeys and EA pay the licensors (so the France family and whoever owns the rights to Australian Supercars) on a per car basis.

For every car unit, there must be fixed fee that gets paid to the licensors. So if I buy one of the 2015 Ford Fusion, the licensor gets a royalty for that. If I then get the 2015 Camry, they get another royalty for that.

This would seem to explain why FM and EA do not have control over the pricing and how they can offer the game to players.

I think that the licensing agreements with the car manufactures is likely different, FM more control about the pricing and usage in the game, and likely why you see cars that repeat often in TTs and OMP, but not others.

This would suggest that Manufacturer licensing is based on a flat fee paid for the rights to use the car, and it is FMEA that pursued these licenses.

For the "seasonal motorsport content," it would appear that the the licensors approached FMEA, likely for promotional reasons, and FMEA only pays them if players purchase the cars. 