Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-37524761-20190131084209/@comment-28169398-20190131151107

SM Racer wrote: VIP was a great innovation and got me spending some money on the game again, but with my key cars VIP’d it’s now about one car an update.

I would pay a monthly subscription for a sandbox mode. So basically that’s my advice to FM: create a subscription sandbox, then gradually migrate new content to the subscription model to morph the game into a subscription game. I would be more inclined for this model... But there are problems with it,
 * 1) FM has to do a lot better job with cheating in online races and do a much better job with track limits and penalties, which should only really be enforce where their is a clear advantage to go off line in my opinion.
 * 2) What is the incentive to play and progress in a career mode if there are no rewards to earn? If you are having a really difficult time passing a tier, what is the incentive to not just ignore it?
 * 3) Upgrades would need to be done away with, otherwise you still need to have an in-game currency that is earned to upgrade the car, unless
 * 4) Career progression is used to unlock content and car improvements. The subscription would give you access to all content, but you would still need to unlock it with game play.
 * 5) Special Events and LTSs could still be run to unlock content prior to reaching that level of career progression.
 * 6) Is the incentive of rank enough to keep WTTT alive?
 * 7) Would unlocking or winning Customizations be an incentive to get people to enter and play in certain events, like the Community Challenge or Special Time Trial tournaments?
 * 8) FM would need to make significant improvements to the AI for career modes.
 * 9) Damage in races would need have a greater effect, but the idea of service times should probably be removed.
 * 10) What is the incentive for Team Challenges? Rank? Do you really want to have to sit and run 24-hours to reach the top of the boards of a distance challenge?
 * 11) Does this require a generational change? RR3 to RR4. And do you allow people to migrate their garages or does everyone start from scratch. If you do allow garage migration, how are upgrades addressed?

There are probably many things that I have left off this list, but there are many things to consider before they could shift to subscription based model