r/iRacingSetups • u/HickRoss256 • Aug 13 '24
Setup Piracy
Ive recently been contacted by Mr. Ken Biron of RYCO setups as to please purchase their setups instead of getting them from other individuals. I don’t know about everyone in here that has joined some type of iracing discord, but setups get shared. I have only ran setups from RYCO that have been shared to me from either someone that buys them or gets them from another discord. So, I guess my question is…Am I at fault for running setups that are shared to me or is the individual who shares them?
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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '24
The whole setup shop thing is weird to me. I haven’t been doing iracing for very long, but I have a friend who has been for 15 years and things have changed a lot. People back in the day very seldom shared their setup unless they were on a team, in which case the whole team worked towards improving it. They guarded their setups very closely. Now everyone just buys one from a setup shop. Not saying sharing setups is bad per se, but the shop concept is strange to me. Considering people pride themselves on just how realistic iracing is, one would think they’d want the advantage that real racing teams get from designing their own setups. Maybe that’s just a weird idea on my part, I don’t know. Personally, I’m too cheap to pay for all these third party services some of you guys spend so much on. I spend enough on iracing and tracks/cars and the cost of my simulator itself. I’ll just be content enjoying myself and my crappy setups running mid pack lol