i think we, as a community need to pull some strings and get the sim more organized, maybe if Schawen (can't spell his name to save my life) sees a spike in S2 signups and purchases, he might come out and say something.
i think the problem is (it says i joined in 2012, but i have played with the demo for years prior) is that as they said, content, sim racers are a niche market, so if you keep giving them the same content over and over they get bored and move on.
i think the main problem with iRacing becomming a self-imposed "top of the food chain" of sort in sim racing is that people will eat up anything. i mean, they recently released long beach, one that is 25% done, yet the community over there is so impatient that they demanded this stuff come out, even though the company had 3 years to do it. yet they got kansas done in...under 10 months.
i'm doing a complete 180 here, a year ago i said "Sanctioned series is good for sim racing" when truth is...it is not, because what happens is you will have focus shifted to that specific side of things, and in iRacing's case, it is NASCAR and GrandAM
while i am all for progress, i am glad this sim has content already there, i mean, i'm happy with what we have, i'd rather have problems fixed and adressed with what already exists rather then pushing out new content.
i'm not saying LFS is dead, i just think it needs a revival. people say nr2003 is dead yet there is leagues racing on it almost every day of the week 24/7. when you take one method to race online away from the dedicated racers, we will find another way and make it work.
iRacing doesn't need to charge for content after you already payed for the month-to-month subscription, but that is just me.
or they can adopt an LFS method, anything below class D is free-to-play, the rookie races are a wreckfest anyway so it won't change anything. And i guess as time passes and i'm disconnecting with iRacing (mainly because i cut ties with the people who were the primary reason i was on that sim to begin with) i'm starting to see the redundancy of their business model. they charge you to get started, they charge you to move up into another level of racing, they charge you to host servers (which really are still owned by iRacing, there is no dedicated servers, you just "rent rooms" so to speak for a handfull of hours) for anywhere from 2 bucks to 8 dollars, the charge you to start a league.
and as far as voice chat, you can get banned for saying the f-word over chat, but the guy who plowed you over in the mx-5 turn 1 lap 1 gets off scott free under a "Racing incident" that just boggles my mind, i'm sorry