I won't let it go because you keep calling me stupid for no apparent reason at all. I've made many points to which "you're a bit stupid aren't you" is not an answer. It's hardly my fault that I have some media reading skills is it? What I see here (I feel like I'm repeating myself) is a few simple marketing tricks designed to deceive a potential customer to think iracing is cheaper than it actually is. If you fail to see that, well my caring is beyond imagination, but please refrain from calling people stupid just because they are critical towards salesmen.
No. I figure it took me, or would have taken about 10 clicks or so to find that all out. I admit I started from the wrong end and went from left to right when looking through the nav menu (but hey, I'm not arabian so you can't really blame me.)
My point is, the site is done deliberately in a way that info is hard to find. The simplest trick here is the one where it isn't said how much it would set you back if you bought all of the content. To make matters worse it doesn't actually say anywhere what the additional content costs (remember my quote? Cars and tracks cost either 11.95 or 14.95 ) so you cannot even figure it out yourself. Of course the insanely complicated discount system has some effect on this as well but I can't pin the blame entirely on it as I can understand the point behind a discount when you subscribe for a longer period of time. Volume discounts I'm not too certain about.
The fact is, you've often seen a car review irl where the reviewer complains about the ridiculously expensive optional extras, and how the "as low as" price is so deceiving. iRacing is doing exactly the same. I can't say I blame them because it is quite frankly extortion. You could argue that LFS in comparison is equally expensive if you take in to account all the services included but in reality iracing should be cheaper because they should get savings from having everything centered in one place (eg everyone not having to buy their servers individually).
I still doesn't say what it costs. Except for the basic package. If someone is stupid enough to buy that load of marketing bullshit, well quite frankly they deserve to be ripped off. Again, it's not that hard to write a price list for all the extra content you will undoubtedly buy. Or actually list all the content you can buy, it is after all close enough to say it'll cost either 12 or 15$...
A potential customer is quite likely to buy something eventually... so what else is there?
Besides, LFS isn't something you'd pick up as a spur of the moment from the shop. So if you were referring to those type of potential customers I fail to see your point. You can hardly argue a person looking for a simrace title would just walk away not buying anything? Or am I not getting the point (again) ?
I'm not too certain about that. I was just browsing the iracing site and the thing is I would never pay those prices for a game. Ever. 15 $ a month, and my educated guess is that you'd have to buy more content (I don't know because I couldn't find any info on that at the site... which is another reason why I wouldn't buy iracing. It's not that hard to clearly state your pricing and what it includes, bloody morons).
So with only 3 developers LFS could never climb up to the absurdity of iracing's pricing. And that's a huge plus side.
This isn't rfactor/gtr2. In other words, no, you cannot as I accidentally it.
You have to manually save the replay (=press 2). The point of the hotlapping mode is that you can upload the replay to lfsworld and then everyone can see your awesome laptime and you can show off because you're 1337.