Interesting track (click for vid), but I wonder if the community will pay for 'em?

I'm sure that if you use Google you won't need to pay :D

BTW, It is a great track so some people have paid for it, same for Akina downhill.

This track showed the worst part of the community, people pissed off cause they have to pay 10 bucks

I would pay 10 bucks for a track but would rather spend 15 bucks and get a whole game. 10$ track does not seem proportional to the 15$ you can get gtr2 and race 07 for.

That looks like a gorgeous track. What's the name? Or is it not allowed to be mentioned by name? If it's a legal track (and if people are asking money for it, I certainly hope it is) then I have to say it looks (just based on the video plz) to be R2P-ISO quality.
Personally, I never had an issue whatsoever with add-ons not being free. Please understand, I LOVE that the sim racing community has so many free add ons, it is fantastic and there are so many high quality things out there is mind-numbing. I am not flight-simmer myself but my father has been for over a decade and I know through him that flight simming has for years had a predominance of high-quality add-ons by companies AND enthusiasts alike which are not free and in some cases cost just as much as the sim itself! If I can afford it, I will gladly pay for something high-quality but then I expect quality and service! If there was a sublime track that I knew R2P was going to use regularly in a series or two I would pay $10 for it-- the key here is that it would have to be a great and professionally made track and R2P would have to use it. I never race AIs so if it wasn't used anywhere here what would I do with it?
I am always tickled by a goose's feather when I read all the sophomoric comments in places like RSC when the subject of a price comes up. It's a free market, if you don't want to buy it don't! The most important point though is that I would much prefer to have less junk and more quality. We are blessed that there are so many incredible things for our sim world that are free, but we should not spit on those who would like a fee.

Francesco, the name of that track is GZ Street GP. The track costs 9.80$, about 7$ for the night version. Akina downhill (Initial D track) costs 9.80$ too. At the moment they had 44 downloads, what means winning about 386$.

This track was released at rFc. People rated the track without trying it in a very stupid way. Raceking and his mates, who made the track, are from China, and I read stupid comments in rFc like "Free Tibet", "Boycott the olympics", that sucks. Finally that track was removed from rFc because of people behaviour. I think rFc should be a site for free addons, anyway I don't care if there are some paying tracks.

I don't like payware, I think everybody prefer free tracks, but if someone makes a track and wants to charge for it there's no problem, it's his own work and he can do what he wants with it.

$386 eh? I could bet if you would put that into a perspective of how much hours of work has been spent on making it, by each team member, you would probably come up with pretty low hourly wages.

Ditto to what Francesco said. If the addons are up to scratch then i see no problem in paying for them if you are going to get good use of them. But I really only ever drive tracks that are used by R2P so this wouldn't be much use to me. If R2P adopted this track, I would buy it, if not, then I won't, because I won't be getting my money's worth.

Tough call buying a track. An add-on or a mod get more use, but in the 4 months I've been sim-racing, I still haven't raced at the same track twice.

I've written a few rfactor plugins and if I ever decide to release them, there's just no way I'd think of charging for them when so many other modders have given me stuff for free. I feel it would degrade them. It's a thing of passion and that's what has made rfactor such a success. Anybody is welcome to charge, I just hope it doesn't catch on as I'm sure it would kill the rfactor phenomenon.

It depends, i am prepared to pay for a track for a small fee like a couple of £'s like in Forza2, but only if its gonna be raced, like many, we don't see point in paying for something thats could end up being using very little.

Also i think that even if you paid a couple of £'s for a track, the amount rfactor has (must be at least couple of hundred now) well i for one would be skint.