Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27095714-20160310073425/@comment-26715739-20160330131408

RomGuyony wrote: ... or has started today, that's their prerogative but how do you expect FM to be able to bridge the gap between those types of players and people that have been playing 1 to 2 hours a day, every day for the past year to three years? You can't please everyone all of the time.

It's a fine line they have to walk. On the one hand they have to do something for existing players so they stay (but in a way that they might hopefully spend money). On the other they have to provide enough for new players so they don't feel like they're starting off too far behind to make it worthwhile to keep playing (maybe by making the gap appear small enough that with a small purchase here or there they could catch up).

I think they could do more with adding previous special events back in - and this Gauntlet is definitely looking like a "newbie-killer" (I'm not sure it would be possible to churn the first 3 events in the time provided).

My personal metric of whether a release is "greedy" or not - is whether the gold required for the new release is more than the gold "provided" by the new release - where "provided" is winnable gold from special events + winnable gold from new career events + daily payout for the period of the release + gold payout from fame for racing le mans 10 lap each day. Gold from fame earnt by completing career and special events is assumed to be negligible.

I think they've been pretty good on that front since FAP400. This release is a little expensive - but looking at my gold reserves now compared to when I started the release it doesn't feel too outrageous.