Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31600610-20190829230631/@comment-27504831-20190904100012

Sergent Pepper wrote: No confusion from me, I know all that.

The competition is bad designed (in my opinion of corse) for different reasons, the one you pointed out being just one.

Is bad designed within real racing because of the FU vs standard cars. It is also bad designed for the fact that mix different sims and games and drive experience.

Qualifying player for the same competition from different platform is as bad as qualifying snowboarder for a skateboard competition because "hey, that's a board!" I don't agree at all that it's bad because it's a mix of games. All they are doing is expanding the talent pool. The final will be played on one game (probably rFactor 2), and the winner will have to be fastest at that game. So what's the downside for them, and how does it hurt finding the fastest driver? Yes, RR3 qualifying is unfair, but I don't think they expect the winner to come from RR3. I'm guessing that they expect the winner to come from rFactor 2, iRacing, or Project Cars 2 (the "real" sims), but these games have a much smaller player base. Forza, GT Sport, and RR3 (the "arcade" games) have much, much larger player bases, and that helps with promotion. I could be wrong, but that's what I think.

EDIT

Besides all of that, I'm genuinely curious. In your first post, you stated:

"McLaren is looking for the fastest gamer, and they weed out a huge percentage of players right off the bat. I wonder if anyone at McLaren even understands it works this way."

They in fact weed out lots of player. If you don't agree with me, what is the reason you find convincing? Mclaren being dumb and throwing thousands of dollars through the window in a game they don't even download once? I don't really understand what you're asking here. I meant that they are weeding out players because the RR3 winner will definitely have a FU'd car. That means the majority of players that set a lap time have a 0% chance of winning. We are only playing for gold. But, again, McLaren are probably assuming the ultimate winner will come from one of the sims, not RR3, so they don't even know or care about the unfair RR3 qualifiers.