Aw, that's precious. Oddly I feel similar about the tone you use, always the same combative, unhelpful bluster. You are correct about one thing though, iRacing has been doing just fine for over a decade, might not hurt to figure out how to do something better if one wants to be a successful competitor that remains strong for more than a couple of years.
I haven't been here long enough to know how much has changed, especially with regard to responses to bad driving behavior. It's unfortunate if that has taken away from other useful changes that could have been made, but I do think improving the driver behavior problems that are systemic in sim racing, is probably one of the biggest things that can be done to build long term loyalty to the platform. Otherwise, there are few reasons to leave platforms like iRacing, and that leaves all the sims fighting over a relatively small remaining sim racing community.
They just handle it well to keep people spending a lot of currency and keep them hooked. That's a business model that works, but is not that interesting for the customer. If you look at how long it took that game to implement certain features that other titles have, I wouldn't say it's benchmark so many people think it is.
I agree that iRacing doesn't do a lot of things any better and sometimes worse, and at a very high cost, thus one of the reasons I am here. But there are many things that are more polished in iRacing now than in LMU even if it did take nearly two decades to get where its at now. Unfortunately it isn't the safety system and marshaling that iRacing does better, and in my opinion does worse than LMU, despite some of the growing pains LMU is suffering with trying to figure it out. I really want LMU to succeed and learn from the mistakes iRacing has made, and also recognize where they can make improvements in the systems they have put in place that aren't working as well as they could. As the incombent, iRacing has a lot of advantages, but they have been quite errogant, and I think now is the best opportunity there has been for someone to bring real competition.I didn't imply they were doing it better at Iracing
Compare it with Race Pro and Race Pro+ here, with Race Pro+ you get the DLC's, with Race Pro you don't, you have to buy them seperately, but at the very least at the end of your subscription if you decide enough is enough, you keep all the content while with Pro Plus you loaned it, like in Iracing. It's a false form of acquiring.
And if you managed to get out of bronze without too much issue, it's only going to improve.
Protest for anything is not an option. You can't ban every "bad" move.
Protests in iRacing for on track behavior are ineffective for precisely the reason you state; a banned customer isn't a paying customer. It's also probably not in Studio-397's best interest to ban people with too little justification, and bans should probably be reserved for only the obvious intentional contact.