Steaming101
Local Transition Era nut
I've been perusing through the forums trying to find a good answer on this and I can't seem to find one, so I guess I'll have to ask it:
Compared to 2019 Platinum, what's the main selling point for buying 2022?
From my research, all the base game looks like for the most part is 2019 Platinum with controller support and bulk painting underneath splines. I recognize that the subscription includes Surveyor 2.0, but I'm not about to purchase that, primarily because I'm going to be paying near $70/yr for really only one feature of Trainz Plus that I would use; I really don't care for the other features. That would amount to paying for 90, 95% of the base game every year for only one feature I would actually use. Same applies with Gold Class, but more expensive; I'd really only use S2.0.
Speaking of 2.0, initially rolling it out for Plus & Gold Class only instead of being in the base game sort of makes sense. However, the emails included no suggestion that this is the case, which made learning the former fact a huge let-down. I'm not going to lie; being let down like that somewhat turned me off from 22. As well, this is a bit of a warning flag for others that I converse with on Discord; it's been theorized that Trainz could be going down the "games as a service" route.
So with that said, why should I invest in TRS2022?
Compared to 2019 Platinum, what's the main selling point for buying 2022?
From my research, all the base game looks like for the most part is 2019 Platinum with controller support and bulk painting underneath splines. I recognize that the subscription includes Surveyor 2.0, but I'm not about to purchase that, primarily because I'm going to be paying near $70/yr for really only one feature of Trainz Plus that I would use; I really don't care for the other features. That would amount to paying for 90, 95% of the base game every year for only one feature I would actually use. Same applies with Gold Class, but more expensive; I'd really only use S2.0.
Speaking of 2.0, initially rolling it out for Plus & Gold Class only instead of being in the base game sort of makes sense. However, the emails included no suggestion that this is the case, which made learning the former fact a huge let-down. I'm not going to lie; being let down like that somewhat turned me off from 22. As well, this is a bit of a warning flag for others that I converse with on Discord; it's been theorized that Trainz could be going down the "games as a service" route.
So with that said, why should I invest in TRS2022?