DiRT Rally 2.0 Codemasters acquire WRC licence

Belgakinen · Jun 1, 2020

Exclusive five-year WRC contract commencing 2023

"The Agreement allows the Company to release videogames based on the franchise including its support categories (e.g. the FIA WRC 2, WRC 3 and Junior WRC Championships) across console, PC and mobile platforms, including annual iterations for the five seasons from 2023 through to 2027. The Company looks forward to developing its first WRC videogame for the 2023 WRC season, which it expects to release in the Company's financial year ending 31 March 2024 ("FY24").

Codemasters (AIM:CMD), the award-winning British videogame developer and publisher specialising in high-quality racing games, is pleased to announce that it has signed a licence agreement with WRC Promoter GmbH ( "WRC Promoter") for the exclusive rights to develop and publish the FIA World Rally Championship ("WRC") videogames and esports tournaments (the "Agreement")."

Source: https://irpages2.equitystory.com/we...html?article=30731768&company=codemasterssoft

TTM75 · Jun 1, 2020

Hopefully games are more Dirt Rally 2.0 style than Dirt 4 or 5.

Rob Every · Jun 4, 2020

I would happily hope they ditch the rather average game that is Dirt 2.0.

The most over rated game I have played in a very long time. for lots of reasons, rehashed content, always online, Racenet, stupidly over difficult aspects that are unnecessary in a game based on what is already the hardest motorsport discipline there is.

Eg I know, we will make wet weather handling abysmal, we will make finish boards sit on the line and made of steel, we will make the brakes have no FFB feel, when we had it in DR1, we will make parts of the stage jutt out onto the line over brows to make you roll for fun after we coaxed you in there with a pacenote, aren't we clever, we will make you therefore grind the heck to learn the stages so you know it like a race track, just like real rally, NOT. We will make stage finishes ALWAYS tricky just to catch you out at the end, wrong notes, awful wipers,

Weekly events that ALWAYS include wet weather and/or a night stage with wet, noticed how it is usually the toughest stage too< almost as if it is erm scripted? Grass that is actually glass, even in 100 degree heat in Australia. it never rains in Argentina, notice that? A career mode that is pointless, Ai in rallycross that are literally targetting you. Cmon guys this is 2020 not 10 years ago.

So may things.

Complete redesign for me, hope WRC demand it. Wouldn't it be great if in a couple of years we were still racing around Sweet Lamb, 5 years after it was written! Then again,m they learned it from the best, Polyphony the kings of rehashed content being sold new every few years. I am sire you lickers would buy it anyway, but I would not, I only paid 20 quid for this, and think it rather a waste.