I'm currently in league in Project Cars, but the bugs / issues / apparent lack of development / support has encouraged me to look at alternatives.
I have AC as well, and when it was first released, it felt really good, I concentrated on pCars, so didn't follow the developments on AC, but I don't enjoy it anywhere near as much as even buggy pCars.
So, I had a re-visit of RRE (I tried it when it was first available, and the core felt good, if lacking content / etc.
The 'Pay for DLC' concept put me off, thinking the prices would be close to iRacing (not the case), and it dropped off my radar.
Installed it again, and tried the free content - and it just felt .....Right!
Perhaps a bit of a Simbin fanboy (not really, but did love GTR1/2), and I think the physics are of GTR2 quality.
Easy to drive, but hard to master, and will punish mistakes.
So I looked at purchasing some content, and this is my biggest issue with RRE just now, but in a good way!
I just can't stop buying content!!!
Most of the GT3 cars are about £0.55 just now (75% off)
I picked up the ADAC 2014 GT3 pack > Auro track pack > US track pack > 2 cars > Spa, and I don't even recall the total, as each addition was not making a huge difference to the total. (It would be in the region of £38.00 I guess). (Gutted I looked into this after that black friday deal
(( ).
Now this is with me not having money to burn, and I'm still not even sure that I'm going to ditch pCars, and yet I purchased this content (have since bought 2 DTM packs, and another couple of cars...).
The only thing that I needed, was a league to join......Taa daa!!!! Hi !!! (Would love the guys to use the TeamSpeak more and make it more of a social thing, but each to their own I guess
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All this could be "The grass is always greener / Honeymoon period / Rose tinted glasses / etc" but I can only see RRE growing stronger and stronger as more people join in. And I am bringing quite a few pCars drivers over, which seem to be loving it too. (They have some servers, and may build their own league, but the setup of the GT3 racing on this league is almost perfect for me, so I would encourage them to join here!).
From what I understand, Simbin's GTR3 isn't 100% dead (even though Simbin died off, and half moved to RRE's Sector 3). but I don't hold much hope for GTR3 in the near future (if at all!).
pCars2 ? They have not done a good job with pCars1, and are witholding content / features, to make pCars2 more desirable, when they should have been put into pCars1...) and the patches have been causing real issues with Multiplayer... > If they fix it, I think it has potential to be a top contender for the best Driving Sim, but I've lost a lot of faith
iRacing ? Just can't justify the price, simple as that.