Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-5904736-20180219023649

To whoever it may concern, earlier this morning, a new World Time Trial Tournament was started in Real Racing 3. I noticed that the top car is the Lotus Type 125. I didn’t have the car yet, and so decided to see how much it would cost me in real money to buy it. Maybe $5? 10? 20 if we’re pushing it? No. The price is $159.99. That is ridiculous. I bought Forza Motorsport 7 Ultimate Edition last year, which includes over 50 free cars. Please explain to me how one car in Real Racing 3 is worth over 50 in Forza Motorsport, a game where you can take any car you like, and race it against any other car you like, on whatever track you like.

When I was in high school, I often got asked the age-old question; “What do you want to do when you finish school?” For a while, I had one clear answer. “I want to work for Firemonkeys. I want to be working on a racing game, the reach of which has never been seen before.” The reason I continue to play Real Racing 3 is simple. It has a massive amount of potential. It has a much, much larger potential customer base than Forza, and due to its mobile nature, you can do things that Forza couldn’t really get away with without either spending a large amount of money, or looking incredibly cheap. The special event system in-game could be used to tell any number of amazing stories from the world of motorsport, and cars in general. Redline: Origins tells the story of Alberto Ascari, but the names are changed. There could be a special event celebrating the achievements of Steve Richards and Mark Skaife, who were barred from competing in Japan because Nissan though they were too fast, and would make the factory teams look bad. Those are the stories that Real Racing has the power to tell. That is the potential of Firemonkeys. That is what high school me aspired to create, and while current me aims to tell the stories of motorsport, I no longer see Firemonkeys as the means to that end. But you have the power to change that.

Sincerely, (formerly), your number 1 fan. 