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Why not release the game at the start of the season?

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Just like NFL, NBA, etc, games, Codemasters couls release the game closer to the start of the season. Otherwise, things like Force India and driver changes will always happen. And everybody will start the game with a not updated version from day 1. I know it’s hard because there is the performance of the teams/drivers, etc. And also it would “shorthand” from one release to the other. But I’d be fine with a simpler version of F1 2019 for example, as long as it means that the game will always be released at the beggining of the season like april or may. Take FIFA for example.

Anyway, I will get my F1 2018 copy tomorrow knowing that it is already not up to date.

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The biggest problem with doing it that early is they'd have no time to actually create the cars in game. They only see the cars at pre season testing like everyone else. I think the general quality of the game would suffer as well with a shorter development window.

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Anyway, I will get my F1 2018 copy tomorrow knowing that it is already not up to date.
Another pointless post. Licensing issues and car designs vary from team to team meaning it takes time to get everything spot on and could never be achieved in the space of a month. F1 2015 was released early and we saw what a car crash that was. I’d rather wait for a decent game than have a beta version of the game released early.

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Just copy pasting what I said last time.

5 years ago - Just saying these exist

"You would think Codies would release the game during the summer break so we can play along the rest of the season."
HattaCM: "Unfortunately we can't. The info just isn't there at the time"

"Honestly? Release it near the beginning of the season so we can play along with the Championship."
HattaCM: "As perfect as it would be, it just isn't possible right now. We find out the majority of new info the same time as you do. For example, we don't know the TBC Grand Prix location, so if we shipped the game next week it would be missing an entire Grand Prix. :P"

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