Talk:High Voltage/@comment-46.190.115.43-20170102012750

OK. Let's face it. This game now officially sucks.

I was really excited when I started playing, 4 and a half months ago. I've been playing every day, have never missed a daily bonus, and found about this great site a couple of months ago (thanks, everyone, by the way). I am now at Legend, having unlocked both EK and EC 10-lappers, and was looking forward to farming both and advancing in the game. But then...

I totally understand that the game developers are selling a product, and that they have to find a way to motivate people to spend real money if they want to stay in business. But I hate the dishonest tactics that I see being used more and more against all prospective clients.

This event was really, really bad. Upgrading should give you more performance, it should not dumb down your opponents. In 8.4, driving almost flawlessly, I coun't reach 4th place. When I updated to the recommended PR, I was hitting walls all over the place and made the distance easily on my first attempt, because it was a different target, much lower than before. Same thing happened in a few other races, clearly designed to keep good players from advancing without paying gold.

I was seriously considering spendind real money, especially with the Christmas and New Years offer of 1019 gold at 1/5th of the normal price (which, by the way, is extremely steep considering the cost of Legend level cars, and as a new player I didn't have the chance to win any of them in special events). But these tactics are an insult to my intelligence. I am ok with top cars being expensive, and I'm fine with having the choice to either spend money and advance more quickly or gather money through farming and levelling up and advance more slowly. But this thing, where opponents are suddenly turned from top F1 drivers into my grandmother because I improved my exhaust is ridiculous. And it taked the fun out of the game, it robs us of the sense of accomplishment. When you know that you didn't reach 1st place because you became better, but because your opponents became worse, there is no point in trying to win. And when there is no point in trying to win, there is no point in playing.