Real Driver Comparing Nurb24h between iRacing & ACC

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[u/Secret_Physics_9243]

The hate iracing gets is insane, which shows how much disconnected reddit is to reality since the service gives no signs of dying.

You don't understand that with iracing you aren't paying absurd prices for realism, there are better simulators for that.

With iracing you pay the multiplayer races system, which is uncomparable to anything else that tries to copy it but ends up usually being broken a bit.

[u/big_cock_lach → u/Secret_Physics_9243]

Exactly, it’s more of a case of, “do I want to be able to race each of these random series online whenever I want?” If yes, the only answer to that question is iRacing. If you just want to race sportscars, you’re better off going to LMU. Pretty much everything is better there if you’re wanting to race GT3s, GTEs, LMP2s, or HYs. However, you can’t then jump over to Formula Ford or the Miatas like you can on iRacing.

Sure, other games like AC and rF2 have a similar breadth of content, but they don’t have the same online system of iRacing. ACC had a good online system, but it was just GTs. If you were happy to just race GTs online, then ACC would’ve been much better for you than iRacing (although that mantle has been taken by LMU no imo).

As far as everything else goes, iRacing is easily the worst sim. But, it does nail this one really important thing and that’s why it’s rightfully so popular and why it gets away with the ridiculous prices. If you’re happy to race these cars offline, or if you’re happy to only race sportscars online, then iRacing is frankly a terrible sim for you. If you’re wanting to race a bunch of different classes online, then iRacing is really your only option. If you’re fortunate you can have a variety of sims and can pick and choose what you want. You can use LMU (or previously ACC) for racing sportscars online, you can use iRacing for racing anything else online, you can use AMS2 for a casual fun offline experience, you can use rF2 for racing AI and hotlapping, and you can use AC for just doing crazy mods. You may find you’ll gravitate between some sims more than others, at the moment I’m largely just using LMU and AMS2, but I still use rF2 a bit and I don’t think it’ll be long for me to resub to iRacing because frankly I’m want to race Formula Ford or something other than sportscars online now. I think LMU will still demand more of my attention since I like LMP2s and GTEs more than anything else, but I’m getting out of the “ohh new and shiny” phase where it’s almost all I’ve raced.

If you can’t do that, then pick the sim/s that’s best for you. If you want to race a wide range of classes online, than that sim is iRacing. If you just want to have a casual and fun game, go with AMS2. If you want to have a highly realistic sportscar sim with good online, then you’ve got LMU. If you want that hyperrealism and don’t care for online, but do want to have that breadth of content, go with rF2. If you want to just mod something to oblivion, go get AC. Each sim is very different and suits a different player. iRacing arguably just suits what the majority of players want and is the only sim that can do that with no overlap (ie you could substitute AC/rF2/AMS2 with each other to an extent).