I'd like to point out I didn't say they didn't use the model.
But if you're going to distribute it on a a site that allows use of models. Expect it to, you know, get used?
Plus, once it got out that he was charging money for a unlicensed Ferrari modem, the model quickly disappeared.
And finally, as pointed out below, the criticism around this can't be levelled at Codemasters, its very highly probably they had no idea until the forums posts started, at which point it was clearly dealt with swiftly behind the scenes.
What none of this changes, is the ridiculous notion that people expect new games to have new assets built from the ground up despite having perfectly good ones already. Citing PD as an example and the going BUT they put more cars in as well is defeating the whole point of the argument
@LeGeNd-1 that game is meant to have hundreds, difference being most of those reused models were not fit for purpose. The models used in Grid, Dirt etc clearly are, they are in fact excellent models.
Also worth noting that despite its smaller car list, DR2.0 had 25 new cars to the Dirt series. Now using your GT example of what, 800 old to 200 premium in GT5 or 800 old and 400 premium in GT6, 80% reused and 66% reused respectively. DR2.0 sits at 66% reused content as well, so the "but PD did this" argument falls flat as they have exactly the same percentage of reuse. Difference being, DR2.0 has consistent quality across the whole range of cars.
