Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-28169398-20171015224354/@comment-28169398-20180223161417

Darrell Holcomb wrote: Sorry, I think my comment was taken out of context. I didn't mean discussing goals and strategy was pointless.

I meant the part about calling FM out for being greedy, over priced, rip off, all of that.

That stuff is pointless, because if you chose, you can play for free.. And at the end of the day, that is the goal right? To play! And even if you never farm or discover explioits, you can always play.

There never comes a point in this game where you get "stuck" and cannot go any further without having to spend money. Spending money just simply makes it go faster. Nothing more. You do not get any additional benefits by spending money that you cannot get eventually for free.

Hope that clarifies. The problem was that your comment was not taken out of context, it was that you did not bother to read the post or any of the subsequent posts. There is no talk of FM being greedy. The game economics are a statement of fact, and you can calculate all of these numbers.

The original post was a response to a person ridiculing people for not buying gold to get the Holden. This post was to point out that if you were to go the route of buying gold, it would cost at minimum US$15,000 to get to 100% Garage with Full upgrade. And just putting the 15K number out there without the opportunity cost with relation to auto racing games didn't really hammer home that point, and this was before GRiD Autosports Mobile was released for iOS with unlimited DCA for $10.

And you say be patient. Well, yes, my blogs show that you can be gold positive in most updates without buying gold or using exploits, but it requires a good amount of time and effort. As I said above, it would take 21 years to watch enough ads to get the amount of gold required with a 20 gold ad a day cap.

You play using exploits, so you are in no position to criticize or say you never get stuck. And you do get additional benefits if the goal is to race Legend category cars.

Sure, there is some good content in tiers that you can reach in a few months, like the Audi R8 LMS ultra or the Porsche 918 RSR concept, but if you aren't playing a lot early on, it can be a long time coming and a lot of people give up the game running the BMWs long before they get to the good stuff and that is bad for the ecosystem of the game. The developers are more likely to continue development when there is a healthy and engaged user base. But if that user base is dropping out, then the bean counters will shutter the operation before they are run into the ground.