EA Announces No F1 26 Next Year, F1 25 Will Get a Major Expansion Instead

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• rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wonder if they’ve figured out that because they just release essentially the same game every year (for this franchise and other sports franchises like FIFA) with different content, it’ll be cheaper for them to just basically sell a patch?

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  Just read the article to confirm - yup, it’s a paid “expansion”. God, that’s so funny.

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  • brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They litterally did 4 years of re-releasing the exact same FIFA on Switch with only a roster update, just slapping a “legacy edition” on them for good measure. If it’s the same game, by comparison, making it a DLC of the previous edition is slightly more honest.

    Annual sports game editions are just a wet dream a marketing genius had back in the 90s. A shame that it must still work on a significant part of their audience.

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    • Pringles@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Initially it made a lot of sense though. The differences between each fifa version between the first one and 2003 were massive with each iteration. But as the graphics got better and better and the gameplay was more or less settled, it became less sensible to have a new edition each year. After fifa 2003 there were noticeably less differences between the iterations.

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  • AlexisFR@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Releasing a new game every 5 years with paid expansion every year is exactly what they should be doing.

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• villainy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  2026 is a new regulations year for F1 so the cars are very different, racing rules are different, there’s even an 11th team joining the fray. Yearly sports game expansions instead of whole new games is the obvious choice but for F1 specifically, this seems like the worst possible year to switch?

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  • OrgunDonor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I feel like this is also the best time to do this.

    F1 25 is not great, the game needs to be sorted out and revamped for it to prosper again in my opinion. The best time for them to have done this was last year, so they could come out swinging for 2026.

    But I think coming out next year with a new game that has had time for the 2026 cars to be worked on and settled in is a good choice as well. They just need to get their shit together and put out a good game… Which for racing games seems to be almost impossible

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    • EarMaster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But it also means that 2025 most likely will not get patches anymore.

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  • Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    All of those changes are minor as far as a game goes on the backend. They aren’t building brand new mechanics for these cars year after year.

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• Vinny_93@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Really don’t quite get why these sports games need a ‘new’ version each year anyway. All they really used to change were driver line-ups and some minute details about how cars handled on controllers. If you were to play with a wheel you’d not have noticed much difference since F1 2018 but they’ll expect you to buy it again and again.

  Just sell the game at 70, yearly content updates at 20 and stop pretending you’re actually doing anything about issues in the game.

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  • mlg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• msage@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fuck EA

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  • Linktank@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also fuck F1.

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    • hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s more like fuck the FIA then F1.

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• B0NK3RS@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  With the significant rule changes I can see why they would do it this way.

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