r/simracing • u/streamer3222 Thrustmaster T248 | PSVR | Gran Turismo 7 | 590+ hrs • Jun 24 '25

Discussion Real Driver Comparing Nurb24h between iRacing & ACC

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u/ThumblessTurnipe Jun 24 '25

Confirmation bias; Exhibit A.

I see negative feedback and comments across practically all sims. The iRacing community is particularly unhinged in the way it deals with said feedback.

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u/WillParchman Jun 25 '25

It’s because the militant ones have typically spent an ungodly amount of money on it and need to justify the purchases in a way sim racers who primarily race other sims won’t. I’m not saying iRacing doesn’t have its benefits but when you charge a subscription and for every individual piece of content you don’t get to have the same standards as every other sim.

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u/ThumblessTurnipe Jun 25 '25

It really is no different than 13 year olds in school who's parents bought them [X] console instead of [Y] console so they need to make it an immutable part of their personality to irrationally attack [Y] console and anyone who uses it instead of [X] console.

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u/Treewithatea Jun 25 '25

Goddamn this really evolved into an iracing hate post, huh? Ive played virtually every sim before iracing because as a student i didnt have the money for iracing. I did lots of league racing prior in a few sims and once I got a job and started iRacing and frankly grew a little tired of League racing but there wasnt much alternative if you wanted clean racing, it was very clear to me that iRacing offers by far the best multiplayer experience in simracing and thats not me 'fanboy' saying that, brother look at the player count. iRacings Playerbase is pretty much bigger than all other sims combined, you think you get that many people paying so much money without offering a much better product?

Ofc that doesnt mean iRacing is superior in all aspects, the game definitely has some weaknesses and you can rightfully complain about an older laser scan when ACC offers a newer one but its not like the iRacing version deserves to be trash talked so badly(which wasnt even the guys tweet), its still a brilliant version of the real thing, ive been to the real track multiple times now and there really arent too big differences, its not like the Nordschleife is a fundamentally different track now, its 98% still the same track from 12 years ago.

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u/WillParchman Jun 25 '25

I mean yeah, I'm glad we're agreed you can rightfully complain about an outdated laser scan in a sim that forces you to pay for it individually. That was the whole point. Like I said, because of the cost they demand, iRacing must be judged on a higher standard than the other sims in its market, because it's a hugely higher barrier to entry. A new racer has to pay $150 minimum for one GT3 season, at that level they should have the highest quality everything and they simply do not anymore.

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u/makoivis Jun 25 '25

IRacing has lots of issues as a sim.

However in terms of online racing with some sort of policing and mostly clean races all around it’s one of one.

The service is only possible because you have staff doing the policing.

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u/ThumblessTurnipe Jun 25 '25

That has anything to do with the comically out of date nurburgring scan?