The forthcoming F1 2011 videogame from Codemasters has this morning been confirmed as having achieved 'gold' status.

Good... heres hopeing... BTW anyone know if this is coming to Steam, Codemasters usually does but not seeing it listed... anywhere else?

nevermind, got my answer via twitter... on steam now for pre-order.

Does gold also include all the bugs too? I can't remember if those are included in a gold release... As much as I would like to save a few pennies on a pre-order, I'm still left with a sour taste after the failure of 2010. Sure the title wasn't meant to be a simulation, but even to classify it as a game with what they broke after they gave us a patch...umm I mean removed features, I'm scared to donate anymore money to CM.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/44360/

There it is ^

Hmm. Still going to wait a week after being emotionally scarred by 2010. You go first, I'll watch from here.

I'll wait a month or 2 after it's release to try it...

Wait til it achieves brown status?

Totally agree.

I spent more time trying to get F1 2010 running without game crashes than I did actually playing. Codeshafters seem to have a penchant for abandoning any support for their titles very quickly. The (so called) patch was a travesty that actually broke more than it fixed. Then there was Red River and for this reason I have no confidence in anything they release. To be honest I had pre-ordered F1 2011 after thinking that they wouldn't dare repeat the 2010 fiasco, but sense has prevailed and I have cancelled this and will wait to see what the score is.

Every other post I read regarding Codemasters refers to their poor track record regarding the quality and support of their releases. Strange thing is that they don't seem to care (more likely that they are in denial!) that they have this poor reputation and continue to tread down the same path with every release. Panther and I have voted with our feet...I wonder how many more will?

I happend to talk with Stephen Hood, chief game designer last night on the phone. A writeup of the conversation has been submitted for publication here on SimHQ, so without jumping the gun and posting the entire thing here and now, my main impressions as a result of the conversation were:

- I think it is highly likely that 2011 will recieve the same amount of after-sales support as was the case with 2010. They're going to move to 2012 about five minutes after they've taken your money.
- No improvements regardig replays
- No improvmenets or changes regarding taking control of your car in the pit-lane
- No new anti-cheat masures in terms of keeping the leader-board honest.
- Apparently, code-optimisation has been done to ensure that it will run on hardware that ran 2010.
- They claim the AI is faster and better and able to evaluate the race through strategic analysis. especially the last part I have a hard time believing.

well said Papa_K