"Niles Anders" > wrote in message
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> David Fisher's Left Testicle wrote:
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>> "Niles Anders" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> 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?
>
> Yes

Regardless?