And we can still find it for free with Nations Forever (despite the server limitations).
For something that used to be free back in the day. Just for the sake of integrating it to ManiaPlanet, they made it a $10 expansion with just 10 new blocks to an existing environment.
TM² Stadium was the one which took the cake. 18 months between the release of Canyon and Valley. Then, when Maniaplanet was announced, everything started to break down: Nations Forever was deemed not viable anymore, the Freezones servers were established which was killing all the community around the game, then the politic to release one environment at a time did the rest. Which was even extended by the Forever expansion. Then United was released at the end of 2006 putting all 7 environments into one single game and giving it a great lifespan. Old Trackmania games (the original one and Sunrise) had 3 in one single package, while Stadium was free (TM Nations).
The problem with TrackMania² is they decided to release one environment at a time, with 18 months between each release.
