Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26521061-20160922100710/@comment-125.230.66.97-20160923114558

I was just reading this thread and got the welcome to the Elite screen Bathurst updating my phone. It clearly said thank you for contributing to the game, implying financial contribution, which I have done. Finally these people realise that punishing people who do the right thing and contribute, should get MORE, not less, free gold. I will say I only bought gold when it was on sale ($20 for 1019 gold). I would be willing to do this more frequently than once a year. However, the idea of paying $100 for 1019 is ludicrous. So EA take note: $100 over several juicy gold piles per year is a fair and reasonable amount to pay for the utility the game provides me. I read somewhere there is an ecomic model/theory that states something like 90% of revenue comes from less than 10% of players, but there is probably a window where the sweet spot makes this less true.

I have 1100 hours played, 150 cars, level 286, I've played daily for 3-4 years, no teams, D/E WTT as most cars not fully upgraded, usually still use low brakes high steering and TC on, so I'm not super skilled.

I can't report daily gold as I took the daily five before I took the Bathurst upgrade on my tablet, then got 2 more after I updated, and a bunch of the useless R$ ads. I just updated my phone and the welcome to the elite screen appeared, which I don't think I saw on the tablet earlier today. I can see the little elite upgrade badges on the daily sign-in bonus screens. It will be interesting to see how this pans out. It would be nice as a contributor to finally get more gold than the leechers. I was really resenting this situation. If they do reverse course and give more free gold to elites, I'll bet many will agree with my position above. They would be wise to take care of the Elites, I can't imagine the ads make them much money. I doubt I make them $20 for all the ads I sit through (but don't look at, or listen to)....but I gladly gave them $20 for 1019GC. I sure won't watch the R$ ads as 2000 is not worth my time with $45,000,000 in the bank. I pray they don't cotton to this, and bury the gold at the end of a long string of 2000R$ ads. Just when they seem to be reasonable, they do something stupid seems to be their M.O.