Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31534476-20190729094135/@comment-28169398-20190801022447

Eyespy wrote: EA are going to be laughing all the way to the bank if people take part in the archives. The only way we'll see the back of them and the return of FB's is if people boycott them. You really are seeing this backwards. No matter. No amount of trying to explain it to you will help you break your bias. And you can hold your breathe until you turn blue, I don't think you will see FBs. They nearly died last year as there wasn't an alternative in place. Now there is an alternative....

For everyone else, this is a good thing for new players as it gives them greater opportunity to build up their garages to participate in more aspects of the game without having to to pay the upfront purchase price of the car.

It also benefits new players in that reruns of LTSs almost always require an additional gold upgrade than the original running to complete in order to subsidize the completion rewards to existing players. While they don't get completion rewards, new players won't have to add as many upgrades to win the car from the Event Vault as they would have with an LTS rerun, which ends up being a wash, and could actually be less expensive.

This is good for existing players as revenue generated from new players generally does not come from gold balances amassed from exploits, meaning that FM doesn't need to overprice new content as much as they had to in the past to compensate.