Hi everyone (this is my first post and I hate to introduce myself).
I bought TDU 2 three days ago upon coming across this thread, and it took almost three days for me to get online with it. When I finally had the technical nags worked out, I was already aware of its downsides such as lacking physics, and that one cannot expect any level of realism, but cruising around works wonderfully well. The graphics is decent enough and there are vast areas waiting to be explored, races to be won and custom-jobs to be applied. Not that I actually need a new hair cut, a facial makeover or ugly stickers on my beautiful, two-tone pink metallic Mustang, but if you want it, go ahead and do it (it'll cost, though, virtual Dollars).
I am not planning to buy any of the DLCs, especially not after the less-caring treatment I received from both Atari and Steam when inquiring for help with the seemingly unregistrable product key provided by Steam. The problem solved itself somehow, but I still have no idea how or why. Want more money from me, Atari? Dream on. The free "Exploration" DLC was already included and installed along with the game in my Steam account, which I am somewhat grateful for, seeing that I paid relatively little for the game itself.
But I would much rather put the additional DLC cost equivalent into an iRacing subscription.
Have any of you read in the official TDU 2 forums lately or the Steam forum for TDU 2? The sheer amount of negative energy is almost
staggering; I have never before seen so many layers of negative attitude and harsh critics toward one single game title, at least not that I remember, and not counting "Duke Nukem Forever". Add to this the recent rumors of 50% layoffs and the following,
symbolic one-day strike, and I fear the developer Eden could be facing their own demise in the near future.
Not that I am complaining, and I will definitely enjoy the frack out of this game until the server goes down forever. I plan to join iRacing at some point anyway, preferably when I suck less with LFS and rFactor.