Talk:RR3 Wiki:Tips and FAQ for Stingray Evolution/@comment-88.156.225.11-20151119235432/@comment-27123099-20151120163217

They are giving you the chance to earn a free car which can often be worth a significant amount of GC (like the LeMans cars, or the P1 GTR etc., not necessarily this Vette).

Once you win the car, you'll open up other events which the vehicle can be used in and which will also likely require you to have to upgrade the car to compete in as well. So, you'll have to buy these upgrades eventually anyhow.

As I stated in a previous comment, I see this as an investment in the car, at least the GC I spend on upgrades isn't completely lost and it's definitley dramatically cheaper than buying the car outright as well, so there's still a net gain there (even if it's smaller now).

Basically, look at it this way, would you prefer to play the event, spend ~50-70GC and win the car (with some bonus GC paid to you as well during the course of the event), or would you prefer to just pay 250GC outright (just a guess) for the car?? Because really, these are the options available to us based on how the game is set up.

I do agree that it's not as good as the previous gameplay, but it's where we are now. Again, I still see it as beneficial since I'm able to win cars that woudl take me significantly longer to be able to afford otherwise. As I'm getting to the point now were all the cars I need to buy/earn are high GC cars, that's pretty important to me.

On top of all this, EA is only as greedy as you allow them to be. I've never bought any GC in this game at all, I've earned every bit of it and I own 110 cars of the 129 cars available. I have invested a lot of time to get to this point, but it's a game, I do it for fun.