Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9572437-20150828174303

I've been here for about a year now. Not nearly as long as lots of people, but more than a bunch. I've seen arbitrary policy decisions by FM that made me wonder why I play this instead of, well, anything else. I stuck with it, mostly because it was fun. Over that year (ish) I've amassed 107 cars, and gotten up to level 127. Not bad, I suppose; again, I know that lots of people are far ahead of me.

Now, however, I'm thinking of quitting, and it's not because of anything FM did or didn't do. It's because of the recent overtaking event. I missed most of it due to work issues, and only saw the team event on the last day. I went to the team page, and requested to join the team that the game recommended. The team description sounded good; they said they were "polite, active players".

Twenty minutes or so later, I learned that I had been kicked from the team. Presumably, this was for my lack of activity in the event. Funny thing is, I was never told that I had been accepted by the team. I gather I was supposed to read someone's mind or something.

Not to be called a quitter, I tried again. The game recommended the same team to me, so I figured it must know something I didn't. This time, I got a banner announcement at the bottom of the screen saying I had been accepted within a few minutes, and I started playing. With about six hours left to go in the game (that's when I got on the team), I was told that I was expected to get to 1200 overtakes "if I wanted to stay on the team". This from the team of self-described "polite" players.

Well, I tried, and got to about 700 overtakes before work pressures took me away from the game for a few hours. When I was able to get back online, I found that I had again been kicked from the team, and apparently was not able to share in the prize won by the team (we were ranked about 50 when I signed off).

If the rest of the people who play in team events are as full of @#$%^&* as this group (of "polite" players), I don't need to participate in those events again.

Ever. 