I considered that as a huge spit in the face of the community.
Shootmania Storm (that's a whole different story here) had -40% all the time, but TM² Stadium had -35% for some hours in the beginning, and TM² Canyon had -50% for 4 hours ONLY. And it was enough to maintain the interest in the game for years and years.Īnd talking about Steam, Trackmania² environments were the only games in the Ubisoft catalog NOT to be in sale during the Summer Sale. In United Forever, there were a multitude of websites that provided everything the gamers wanted: new tracks, new skins, new 3D models for the cars. Now, if we don't like how an environment is played, we just keep it on the shelf and wait for several months for a new experience.Īlso Steam Workshop is another a sign of why the community just dropped from TM². for his work on TrackMania Nations ESWC (2006), TrackMania 2: Canyon (2011) and TrackMania 2: Valley (2013). Before, we could play on a variety of environments and gameplays and have our personal favourites (mine being Snow and Bay). They wanted to create a whole world of entertainment and experiences, but Nadeo is a small studio, and they just can't make that world live as the releases are way too spaced inbetween. Having met the creator of Trackmania at several occasions, he's really a great guy, but I think the Ubisoft politics truly killed the Trackmania spirit.
Trackmania 2 stadium valley or canyon for free#
And we can still find it for free with Nations Forever (despite the server limitations). For something that used to be free back in the day. Just for the sake of integrating it to ManiaPlanet, they made it a $10 expansion with just 10 new blocks to an existing environment.
TM² Stadium was the one which took the cake. 18 months between the release of Canyon and Valley. Then, when Maniaplanet was announced, everything started to break down: Nations Forever was deemed not viable anymore, the Freezones servers were established which was killing all the community around the game, then the politic to release one environment at a time did the rest. Which was even extended by the Forever expansion. Then United was released at the end of 2006 putting all 7 environments into one single game and giving it a great lifespan.
Old Trackmania games (the original one and Sunrise) had 3 in one single package, while Stadium was free (TM Nations). The problem with TrackMania² is they decided to release one environment at a time, with 18 months between each release.
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