Trakaplex: Sorry for the excessive posting here, but I have a urgent message to ETS2. The game has seen a drop in players, while ATS is on the rise. Here's why. Many of the Euro DLC maps are old and lacking in quality, as many say "copy and pasted models". YouTuber Clumsy has mentioned that what part of what makes Colorado so good is that each implemented tree has a unique look. And when it also comes to ATS, the devs are paying more attention to details not just in courthouses and stadiums, but small statues as well (as seen in leaked Texas pics).
There are many inconsistencies as well, Clumsy also mentioned that a lot of locals of the Baltic region have came reporting that interchanges were incorrect, landmarks, and even things as broad as few road systems. However, if you compare ATS to reality, it's pretty close. All that would be left is facelifting Los Angeles and Phoenix. As you see, they are currently facelifting northern California, and a small revamp to the early states will restore them to current standards. Iberia may be the last high quality map DLC of ETS2. There has been a conspiracy with building Russia, but that may be in a long while. Years. The idea of facelifting all the map DLCs has most likely been rebutted.
There are also many other things, like addition of more trucks to ATS, etc. Europe would have pretty much been given up by the time of Texas if they don't do something.
SCS started rebuilding European countries from scratch around late 2021, starting with Austria and now Switzerland. But these are two tiny countries, and people have been begging forever for the UK, years now. It doesn't seem pretty soon when all of old Europe would be facelifted (at this rate, 2028). For example, ATS only has CA, NV, and AZ, and for NM and OR, probably a little retexturing. After all, 2012 UK is definitely more needed than 2016 Cali.Patrickov: Somewhat inevitable that Europe will get less attention because of the sheer size of the United States. However, in terms of gameplay, even ETS 1 has its play value.
Frankly I personally dislike conspiracy theories and have a feeling that someone is a bit over-worrying.
Considering that they do pay effort to rebuild Germany, there will still be a lot for them to deliver in ETS 2. Also, if Iberia comes with bus stations, and given the recent menu change, I will say the "coach" module is possibly higher on the queue than what has been for the past 8 years, and it will be a good chance to cash something big -- I believe that module worths 15 dollars or even more.
A recent Steam review on the Colorado DLC: Better than any past or current DLC, including recent "reworks" of Austria in ETS2. It is a confident buy and no regrets. Now SCS just needs to make some overdue upgrades in terms of physics, AI and overall gameplay...
Iberia triggered the hype for ETS2 from 2020-2021.
Moreover, HoR, supposed to be a 2022 DLC got shelved due to current conflict and SCS didn't want to look bad. It was though, the main hub of hype after Iberia. A small Swiss revamp and West Balkans will be 2023, yet it is still uncertain for HoR. They charged for Going East $9.99, but when the $17.99 expansions came, people were complaining it was almost the price of the game itself. Moreover, West Balkans is only roughly the size of Montana, making ATS map expansions better deals. Tiny Italia is $17.99, with New Mexico $11.99. Now DLC prices should be based on work/map area size. Iberia, slightly smaller than Texas, only took a year and a half, with Texas THREE years. The result was that people became demotivated for ETS2 DLC after the news about HoR, and ATS had become the center of attention with Montana and especially, Texas. The map leads are more efficient for ATS as well, with the same levels of quality and accuracy. Montana broke a record of 11 months, and it would make sense speeding Davido would release a whole OK-KS-NE bundle by 2023. And Davido's team is looking at our complaints and adding more roads to DLC. If the Texas team split after completion, that could be three more normal-sized DLC potential.
Still there has been no answer for the UK rebuild despite its demand. All ETS2 has left after 2023 is Greece, Ukraine/Belarus/Moldova, Ireland, and North Scandinavia, and a plague of reskins. But also, the truth is that ProMods exists. They have their own expansions/redos, which might create un-hype for vanilla redos/expansions. It might also spoil the minds of players about the vanilla redos. ProMods doesn't have much of ATS besides BC. Many other mods like Reforma hit the top as well. Pavel stated SCS has plans to finish all of North America for ATS (could be Central America also), creating a MUCH bigger driving universe than all of ETS2, which is only for Europe. It wouldn't make sense for them to expand into North Africa when it's called "Euro" Truck Sim. But does that raise the question if that ETS2 DLC's have such few left, does that make it fair compared to ATS?
ETS2 is almost 10 years old, that's impressive. But... I'm kinda worried.