Splošna debata - iRacing

[markop 702]

@silicijeva dolina: V kateri seriji se vozi tale C7 ? Če se en motim IMSA in GT Prototype challange, kajne ? Ali boš kakšno privatno ligo šibal ?

[silicijeva dolina 1 254]

Ja,IMSA mi je najbolj pri srcu za to bom kar to vozil. Seveda bom sodeloval tudi v BES. Sem nabavil še nekaj dirkališč in mi recimo za BES manjkata samo zadnji dve,ki sta na kolendarju(Canadian Tire Motosport park in Suzuka) za IMSA serijo pa samo Canadian Tire. Ampak za začetek sezone imam vse kar potrebujem. Seveda bi se pridružil kakšni privat ligi,ampak to je ponavadi spet povezano z dodatnimi stroški( host je potrebno plačati),jaz pa sem že  itak preveč zapravil za ta "špas". 

[Patrik Flis 28]

Torej lep pozdrav  sem rekel da se bom malo predstavu: Sem Patrik Flis, star 21 let in oktobra 2014 sem po naključju našel Iracing. Zelo mi je bil všeč "safety rating system" (anti troll system) in vse ostalo, zato sem si takoj rekel, da to moram met. Kupil sem G27 volan (prej nisem nikoli imel volana, le nekajkrat sem igral need for speed na tipkovnico hah). Postal sem obseden z Iracing in trenutno sem na 5864 IR in A 3.6 SR. Dirkam kakšnih 10 različnih avtov, "najhitrejši" pa sem v MX5, Skip Barber in v Mustangu.

[123 91]

Jo Patrik, dobrodošel tuki

 

 

[Patrik Flis 28]

Hvala

[mancSLO 1 945]

Hoj in dobrodošel. Sploh nisem vedel, da je IR možen toliko veliko. Bravo...

[Patrik Flis 28]

Hehe hvala  Sem zadnjič dosegel 6k, potem pa sem se vpisal v eno mustang dirko in na njo pozabil, tako da sem izgubil 170 IR hahaha

[silicijeva dolina 1 254]

Zdravo Patrik. No,sedaj bova lahko tudi tukaj kakšno debato razvila  

[urhpi 5]

Pred 11 urami , MarkoP je napisal:

@silicijeva dolina: V kateri seriji se vozi tale C7 ? Če se en motim IMSA in GT Prototype challange, kajne ? Ali boš kakšno privatno ligo šibal ?

V IMSA se vozi C7 + Gt3 + Ruf C spec. ProtoGT pa HPD + Gt1 + Gt2 . Jaz se nagibam da bi vozil tole protogt z hpd ali pa v8, če bo kaj interesa za EU timeslot.

Uredil June 13, 2016 - urhpi

[markop 702]

@Patrik Flis: Pozdravljen. Spomnem se te iz IR. Sem takoj opazil "tega" letečega Slovenca, ki mu IR raste nenormalno hitro  Lepo, da si se oglasil.

[silicijeva dolina 1 254]

Treniram z Corvette C7 DP za nočno dirko v Sebring-u in lahko rečem,da je izkušnja noro dobra. Če ne poznaš dirkališča v nulo si ga v temi,kjer se vse nekaj blešči na*ebal na kvadrat  

[markop 702]

Pa je prisel tisti dan. IR z 1.avgustom rahlo dviguje ceno narocnine in zmanjsuje nekatere popuste.  

[B_U_R_I 3 290]

That's a joke, right? 

Prej bi pričakoval, da bi kej pocenil, ne pa da bojo podražl ...

[Tomaž Eržen 1 083]

glih ko sem se začel mentalno in finančno pripravljat na 24h Spa...

se ve koliko bo dejansko dražje?

[markop 702]

Dražje bo za cca 1$ na mesec.

 

Good day,

Our never-ending goal here at iRacing is to keep improving our racing simulation and multi-player service.

Over a decade into it and eight years since we launched in the summer of 2008, our endeavor has become larger and more comprehensive than even we envisioned. It took us three plus years of hard work and investment to get the basic structure in place and the foundations of the realistic sim we wanted. To this day, what we launched in 2008 is still very unique and we have come a long way since then. It sure took a lot of everything to get here including time and money.

However, we quickly learned all of our initial plans and work wasn’t going to be near enough. We had to do more, a lot more if we were going to make a go at this in the long run. I suspect that will always be the case but at least the journey has been a true labor of love and we are having as much fun as ever.

We have kept adding high-end technical talent as the years have gone on and the sim and centralized service has become bigger, richer in features and more complex. In fact we have a much larger technical staff than we have ever had in our 10+ years here and are still looking to hire more people. We need a large, talented, professional staff with very diverse technical skill sets at this point. Not to mention, just the sheer volume of work is staggering.

Long story short, we are bigger, moving faster (believe it or not) and more complex than ever. We have over one-hundred licenses and partnerships and growing. Additionally, just like everything else, our costs have just kept increasing over the years. Running a service such as this is very expensive. Although we try to be efficient and smart with our spending, we don’t take shortcuts when it comes to certain things and we hope you notice it.

Every company has costs and their own business issues. We are not unique. Every company is trying to figure out the best way to provide the most value and best experience or product to their customers.

In order to keep doing what we are doing and continue to evolve we obviously need our revenue to at least get close to matching our costs. I’m glad we have grown each year in customer numbers as we have been able to cover most of our increasing investment and rising costs by doing that. However, after eight years it is also time to look at pricing in relation to our increasing yearly investment and our rising costs. We have never raised the prices of iRacing in the eight years that we have been open for business. In fact, the only price adjustment we ever made was to decrease the prices. On top of that, we have added many member discount programs and ways to earn credits over the years. We also have membership promotional deals/sales each year. If you took advantage of all these programs and sales, your membership would be almost free as many members have discovered and your content deeply discounted.

This is not an easy decision but ultimately we have decided for the good of the overall business it is time to have a minor price increase to compensate for just a fraction of the inflation experienced over the 8 years. The price increase will take place on or around August 1, 2016. We will simply increase our subscription rates by $1 per month for our monthly subscription and less than $1 per month on our three, twelve month and two year subscriptions. Additionally, we are going to modify our bulk content purchasing discount program slightly. We are going to reduce our six piece bulk purchase discount from a 20% to 15% discount. We are going to reduce our 25% 40 piece loyalty program from a 25% to a 20% discount. That is it. That is the price change.

There will be no change to our 3 piece bulk purchase discount. That will stay at 10%. Same with our 100% content discount, that will stay at a 30% discount. We will make no changes to the price of our content (cars and tracks), prices will stay at the current prices! We are not making any changes to our official series participation program in which you can earn $40 in credits per year or our referral program in which you can earn unlimited credits by referring a friend at $10 per friend. Hosted session pricing and discounts will also not change.

We tried to make the price change very minor. We want iRacing to be a great value and very importantly grow the membership. As important, we want to continue to invest heavily in the development and improvement of iRacing and be here for a very long time. We know a lot of people do not have much disposable income and we definitely know we have to earn your loyalty. There are many things you can do with your free time and money and appreciate that you have chosen iRacing.

Even with these changes an iRacing membership costs only pocket change per day for any type of membership. A two year membership at full price without applying any of the credits mentioned or special pricing is only 27 cents per day. A one year membership just 29 cents per day.

I also want to mention we are having a 25% off discount immediately (this week) for any type of membership and we will run the sale through the end of June. Again the minor price increases does not take place until August 1 so you can also lock in the current membership pricing now and extend your membership well into the future at the current pricing. In that sense, as a current member you can avoid the minor price increase well into the future. Again also on top of that do not forget about the 25% discount sale running through the end of June on any membership type (1 month, 3 month, 1 year, 2 year).

We sincerely thank all of our terrific customers for getting us to this point and hope you all continue on this journey and shared passion with us for many years to come.