Catphish
Member
I'm fairly adamant, and vocal, against pre-purchasing games. Even before the debacles of Cyberpunk and BF2042, I had learned well enough not to do that. It's not worth the risk, because the end result, more often than not, is that I will have paid a company for an unfinished product, so that I might perform QA for them.
Bullshit. No more.
That is, until a couple of weeks ago when I pre-purchased the EA F1 22 Champions Edition on Steam.
Doing so gave me 3-days early access, which I normally don't give a shit about and would never pay for, but this time means i can play the game today through Thursday, which affords me more playing time vs a Friday release, since my weekend is booked pretty tight. Plus, native VR.
So fuck it. Let's go!
Well, they fucked the Steam launch. Whether it was Steam or EA's failure I don't know, but it released about 10 hours late. It didn't impact me really, since I only would've had time to mess with some settings and shit before starting work, but it screwed the Euros and Brits pretty hard.
What did affect me, and I'm pretty fucking pissed about it, is that wheel support is also quite fucked at the moment. A lot of people, myself included, who have wheel-and-pedal setups aren't seeing the game recognize their hardware, and many of them, myself included, are running the same hardware configurations that worked just fine in F1 2021. Thus, can't play the game.
So, Day 1 of 3 wasted so far, and I feel like an ass.
Never. fucking. again.
Bullshit. No more.
That is, until a couple of weeks ago when I pre-purchased the EA F1 22 Champions Edition on Steam.
Doing so gave me 3-days early access, which I normally don't give a shit about and would never pay for, but this time means i can play the game today through Thursday, which affords me more playing time vs a Friday release, since my weekend is booked pretty tight. Plus, native VR.
So fuck it. Let's go!
Well, they fucked the Steam launch. Whether it was Steam or EA's failure I don't know, but it released about 10 hours late. It didn't impact me really, since I only would've had time to mess with some settings and shit before starting work, but it screwed the Euros and Brits pretty hard.
What did affect me, and I'm pretty fucking pissed about it, is that wheel support is also quite fucked at the moment. A lot of people, myself included, who have wheel-and-pedal setups aren't seeing the game recognize their hardware, and many of them, myself included, are running the same hardware configurations that worked just fine in F1 2021. Thus, can't play the game.
So, Day 1 of 3 wasted so far, and I feel like an ass.
Never. fucking. again.
Last edited: