Talk:BMW M1 Championship/@comment-2A02:8308:903D:7E00:7C7B:D68D:33AB:62-20181110203444/@comment-27123099-20181113173506

This might be the sole instance where that could make sense. This car is cheap enough to upgrade that earning back GC in the ES and WTTT "could" potentially pay for half the upgrade cost or so (unless yuu can manage to get to Group A). Usually, the payback (well, loss really) is dramatically worse for more expensive vehicles.

However, because it's cheaper, that also means there's a potential for more players to FU it, which could make it tougher to earn back a decent reward in WTTT. Since the reward for the ES is only 40GC, the WTTT is where you can earn back most of what you spent, so that's really the important one.

However, then what? Is this car likely to feature in much else down the road? Future WTTT's, future Series'? I'm going to say, probably not. It will probably be forgotten on the shelves like so many others.

Also, it's increasingly become clear that this is the new MO for FM. They release a car in an LTS or SE, then offer that car in the following week's WTTT (to encourage players to upgrade more), then pick 1 or 2 of the new cars to have an ES in the next update (to encourage players to spend much more GC).

With the WTTT being only a single week now, the incentive to upgrade (at least for me), has actually decreased dramatically. At least with the 4-week WTTT, you could upgrade a car and it would help you out for an entire month, where you could earn GC each week. Now, it's one and done. Sure, some cars may return to the WTTT on occasion, but FM has shown that they are often placing the new cars as the top choices. So if you want to be competitive, you'll need to keep upgrading the new cars, not use your existing, already upgraded cars. It's a pretty ingenious system.

While this one is a slightly more compelling draw to FU, I think I'd still prefer to hang onto my GC which will surely be required in the next update.