Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26388545-20160211200853/@comment-26715739-20160212165359

Prometheus21 wrote: I don't understand why they would do Nascar again. It didn't seem to be a popular move last time around, which was not that long ago. F1 cars were added more than a year ago, in a popular and generally well received update. Now they add more Nascar, less than what, 6 months after the first Nascar update? Shame.

Some theories...


 * F1 may have been popular with fans, but maybe it wasn't as popular with the sort of people who pay money to play. Maybe NASCAR was popular. And so we ask: do whales love NASCAR?
 * It has been suggested that NASCAR have teamed up with RR3 in some way - some suggest they paid EA/FM to place their product, but it could be as simple as waiving licensing fees on tracks and cars (they may also get supplemental income due to the extra advertising exposure from car and track sponsors) - making it an easy path of least resistance which subsidises getting licensing for more interesting content later (or you know, just goes straight to the bottom line)
 * Someone high up in EA (or FM) might love NASCAR. It's amazing what gets done (and/or doesn't get done) in organisations with sufficiently high level buy-in (irrespective of the objective merits). Maybe an exec/manager somewhere saw this as a way to get free tickets to the paddock and do some meet and greet some of their heroes. I'd see this as more likely someone from EA given FM are based out of Australia.

Puts more pressure on the next release that's for sure. Especially if it's as expensive to hit 100% again as the last NASCAR release (given that the last 2 releases have essentially reduced the amount of extra gold required).