it's really not that easy to understand.
you might consider it as a endless vicious circle.
One day the baker's son wants to play.
But what? oh, nice, TrackMania is there... so he asks his father for a few dollars of his pocket money account.
The few dollars are multiplied by other players which also by TrackMania.
This gives the gamestudio money to continue development, but more especially to pay the developpers.
And they go to the bakery, to buy bread, sandwiches, cakes etc. so the money goes back to the baker.
Some days the baker gives cookies for free, that makes customers happy.
One days Nadeo gave Stadium for free, and the whole community was happy.
But now the regular products cost again something - not a huge lot, only a bit, suddenly everyone is upset?
Strange the people still go to the baker and buy their daily bread.
So why not buy again something from Nadeo (or from another company)?
Free is nice, but it totally distords the reality, and can't be for ever.
Now if you stop bying anything, you certainly keep your money,
but you also cause others to have less money instantaneously,
and this is where the actual crisis really starts.
Of course games and luxury articles are the first things that get avoided in a financial crisis,
but people also have more time , so they start playing again more than before.
some day they will find the cheaper games, and possibly prefer ManiaPlanet against 60$ games, even if they might look and feel much better.
But honestly, I prefer to drive around in my own maps and to build maps or on community created maps on servers than on "perfect" replicas of racetracks like NASCAR or F1 circuits - its just a different game style.
Everyone who claims free versions, but also complains about any issue, should reconsider the thinking.
That ManiaPlanet is not running smoothely yet, this is now well known, and Nadeo also admitted this and posted excuses.
The only big fault Nadeo has done was to not communicate early enough the plans for TrackMania ² and ManiaPlanet,
but they are learning and improving, I can see this from all what I have read in the past few years.
they have been totally surprised and caught by the wave they started originally.
Now we have open betas, with a relaunch of the not yet completely finished Canyon, so let's work together and help Nadeo to find all leftover bugs and to really improve it for the majority of the players.
