Talk:Jaguar C-X75 Championship/@comment-2600:1700:95C0:34A0:B1B4:5A5F:93A8:E22D-20180123202500/@comment-27123099-20180124172701

It's a Freemium game, we as players don't "have" to pay any real money for the game. There are 2 ways that FM makes money from us players, In-app purchases (IAP), or watching ads. GC and R$ are rewarded for doing both (depending on which IAP you choose and how many ads you watch). Also, as anyone who has played this game any length of time knows, GC is the gigantic bottleneck in this game. You reach a point where you can earn all the R$ you want (with little to spend it on), but struggle to earn enough GC to tread water.

I've been a player of this game for close to 5yrs (not 100% sure when I started, but it was before RTLM was the 1st SE), and I've seen massive changes in the game over that time, some for the better, some for worse. I feel that I can unequivocally state that FM's policy to move towards requiring increasing amounts of GC to complete any SE or LTS (Gauntlets are still a moving target, who knows what they'll do next), has dramatically hurt the game and turned off numerous players. Even though I'm a seasoned player with just 7 cars yet to buy/win in order to have a full garage, I still feel this massive weight of the amount of GC I need to even accomplish that minor goal, much less anything close to 100% career completion and/or FU all cars. This is largely due tot he fact that every 6 weeks, we get a new update with more cars to earn and ever greater GC requirements. It's 1 step forward, 2 steps back constantly.

As I've said elsewhere, I could continue to play this game as I do now, for probably another 5yrs, with FM giving me 1000GC extra each month (on top of what I earn via level-ups, daily check-ins, watching ads, career advancement, etc.) and I still probably wouldn't be able to achieve 100% completion. Plus, that's assuming they stopped any future updates on the game and I played for the next 5yrs with the game as it sits right now. There's something massively wrong with that.

This is coming from a player who's already made decent headway as well. For a player that is just starting out, or has only been playing a year or two, it's completely hopeless. The game should be winnable (and what constitutes winning this game?) by an above average player without having to spend every waking hour, or literally thousands of heard-earned dollars on IAP's in order to achieve that.

In regards to your 2nd paragraph regarding the perils of no further development. For one, I honestly wouldn't be terribly bent out of shape if the game just disappeared. Do I want it to happen, no. However, if it did, I'd move on with my life. Other than time invested, I've spent maybe $20 in real money over 5yrs on IAP's. I'd survive, and likely find something else to take its place.

That said, I don't see why it has to be as dire as you state. You present a false dilemma, if FM stopped development and maintenance on this game, everything you mention would not necessarily need to go away. You present basically a worst case scenario. Perhaps I could see WTTT going away as maybe that takes some development to create a new event each week. But, as I hardly ever (never had until the past 3 weeks) win GC in WTTT, I wouldn't miss it really. Daily check-ins are pretty much on autopilot as is, they are the same every month essentially, so not much reason they couldn't continue I wouldn't think. IAP's and Cloud Save, those seem to be largely on autopilot as well, but maybe they require additional support that could end? I've personally only needed tech support for this game a couple of times, and if I didn't receive it, it wouldn't have dramatically changed things for me. Once was for a car that went missing from my garage (Hennessey Venom GT), and others have been for minor things that I could live with. I've never had any corruption issues, or issues playing the game which I've not been able to solve on my own.

All that said, I've stated several times in various posts that I really wish that the game would just take a break from updating for a while and let us play it as it is for a stretch. Work on career advancement, allow us to build up some R$ and GC reserves, instead of having constant SE's, LTS's, and Gauntlets to suck away our precious GC. This game has 203 cars and nearly 8,000 events to play as it sits right now. I doubt there are many players sitting around waiting for new events because they have accomplished everything available. The game doesn't "need" more content honestly.