"Niles Anders" > wrote in message
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> wrote:
>> On May 26, 1:47 am, "jeffareid" > wrote:
>>> While total membership was growing towards 9,000 players,
>>> the number of active players hovered around 6,000 for over
>>> 6 months, based on the posts I've read.
>>
>> Must have been a misunderstanding (or simply false information). They
>> have posted active subscription numbers only twice: in March it was
>> 8,000, in December 6,000. Six months before December they didn't even
>> have close to 6,000 subscriptions total.
>
> I race in rFactor based leagues that are populated decently, that have a
> number of iRacers in them. Those members comment that they still race in
> their rFactor leagues because they know there is going to be a good field
> to race against and that's not always true with their iRacing. Also their
> long term established SIM racing friends are there.
>
> It appears that their model struggles to deliver the ability to retain
> members. I speculate that they will raise their prices to get their
> members more heavily vested in their software so they are more likely to
> stick with it because of their investment.
>
> I'm so comfortable with my rFactor leagues and our races are always
> populated well and the drivers are so good I have little motivation to
> return to it no matter how good it is.

Will you go 'on the attack' against iRacing in the future?