Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-28169398-20171015224354/@comment-28169398-20171016121559

Jackimo1999 wrote: The allure of Real Racing to me is the platform. I use it as a budget (yes, budget) alternative to console racing games. I have Forza Motorsport 7. I have Project CARS. I have Dirt and WRC and F1 and pretty much every big racing sim on Xbox. I play Real Racing because I want that experience when I'm on holiday, or on a bus, or waiting for a doctor to hurry up and call me, or at a particularly boring party. Three years ago, when I started playing, there was no competition. Your options for racing sims on iOS were Real Racing 3 or Real Racing 2. That is no longer the case. Grid Autosport, by far my favourite racing sim on Xbox 360, is coming to iOS and unless Firemonkeys fix RR3, it'll be my go-to. Real Racing is fantastic for pulling apart and alalysing but the prohibitive cost of cars just makes it laughable. I was considering paying real money for the Altima. It would have cost me 80AUD. For that price, I could buy a tenth of the real-life Celica I'm saving up for. Ten digital cars for the doctor's waiting room, or one real car that I can sit in and touch and drive and have hit me in the head cause the hood struts don't work. I can have a real car for the price of the complete Aussie Supercar collection in this game, which I have to pay more to actually be able to use, IN A FREAKING GAME. The economics of RR3 is just ridiculous, and most of the time, I can't drive my favourite cars if I want to progress

RR3 is my fix. I went back to school after I couldn't take my first career any more, and that pretty much drained the coffers, so no consoles for me, and I am not going to get into the cycle of throwing money at. If RR4 were to come out as a pay to play game that fixed the economics, and was less than $50, then I would probably upgrade. And I wouldn't mind a career progression scheme where I couldn't race the McLaren MP4-X day one.

And while I really like the game, I am not blind to its faults. Many of the ones that people complain about, I don't see problems with, but there are easy wins that FM/EA do not address, and that I have little patience for.