Troubling news are coming in from Sweden as Simbin Studios AB, long-time producer of sim racing titles, is apparently bankrupt and going out of business. The sad news has been confirmed by former Simbin employee AnneSofie W. As confirmed by AnneSofie, RaceRoom Racing Experience is planned to “continue in another setting”, the fact that staff has been laid off indicates that the new outfit will undergo some serious restructuring.

Amazing control and feel of the game, i just love the feel of driving heavy touring cars. GTR2 is amazing for long races with fast sports cars. Has day/night cycle, rain, pit stops, the whole deal. PowerandGlory 3 mod basically gives you GT Legends within GTR2. Lots of mods and tracks for this one.

Simbin’s long history goes back to the F1 2001 days when the Simbin Development Team started producing professional-grade mods for Image Space Incorporated’s Formula One title. Led by Ian Bell, the group went the professional route shortly after, producing the first GTR title as well as the still-popular GT Legends. When Bell and most of the core team split to form Blimey Games and, a few years later, Slightly Mad Studios, Simbin continued from their base in Sweden, producing the RACE series and other touring-car themed titles such as the STCC series. The company seemed to have been in financial troubles several times during the past years according to various news reports, Simbin still seemed to be in good spirits, run alongside their RaceRoom Racing Experience and DTM Experience titles. The studio also employed plenty of household community names such as 6e66o, Com8 and feels3, always giving talented modders the chance to turn their passion into a profession.

Download Adobe Premiere Pro Cs6 32 Bit Portable Sawmill on this page. Hopefully all of Simbin’s employees that have lost their jobs will find a new position within the industry soon! Update: Simbin’s Jay Ekkel has shared some additional info right here on VirtualR: The actual story in short is this: “New studio, new location, new name, (almost) the same team. Be ensured that all development on the project will continue. More interesting news to follow soon!”. God Damnit, the problem is the business side of things are run by suits, they wanted a free to play model to maximize profit thinking they could make a f2p game with the best racing dev out there and that would work. They all want the next f***ing candy crush.

This would have never happened if Simbin would have stuck to what they do/did before, I am super upset cause I wrote them off for a year ( did not like the pricing model ) only to recently come back to the game and being literally obsesse with it. Win Downloads here. I tough Simbin the legend was back, this feels like a punch in the guts. The problem is the business side of things are run by suits, they wanted a free to play model to maximize profit thinking they could make a f2p game with the best racing dev out there and that would work. They all want the next crap candy crush hit. This would have never happened if Simbin would have stuck to what they do/did before, I am super upset cause I wrote them off for a year only to recently come back to the game and being literally obsessed with it. Hopefully some people learn from this and don’t try to apply this to all their games ( wink wink EA ).

I tough Simbin the legend was back, this feels like a punch in the guts. The optimistic in me would like to think that this most likely means good news in the long run. But just the fact that the name Simbin is gone is enough to make me cringe, this dev gave us the best in sim racing for years and now their name is no longer going to appear when I launch the game, that is what bothers me the most •. It has been said that this could be seen coming and, yes, it was kind of predictable. Yet it still feels so hard to believe when reading this piece.

🙁 Really sad news. Educated guess here 1) Investors want to jump on the “free to play micro transaction” train and offer cash and direct/buy a studio for investment purposes. I could never get into SimBin games. For me, being relatively new to PC sim racing I always got confused about what game / expansion pack was what, and what the differences were. I actually bought some SimBin bundle last year, I couldn’t tell you which one, and it installed a multitude of expansions in Steam, which I didn’t have the patience to understand the differences of. In my mind the expansion approach isn’t the best approach to attract new people.

For me this is one of the reasons why I never bothered to give SimBin products a solid go. Another other reason was that RACE Pro on Xbox360 felt kind of unfinished, and I found that the force feedback on the Xbox360 wheel would sometimes not work with the game. The final reason was I couldn’t really understand the advantages of the SimBin products over rFactor, when they are both running off the same engine. I’m surprised you don’t have the patience to understand Simbin titles but apparently do have the patience for rFactor. The advantage of the older Simbin titles (GTR through the RACE series) is they are a complete package straight out of the box, rather than a mod platform. No hunting for tracks and mods of varying quality.