Talk:PORSCHE 911 RSR (2016)/@comment-80.110.76.170-20160519061846/@comment-28503151-20160520045359

relatively new user here (~ 7 months), chiming in.

I was super excited playing my first special event, the speedrush tv one for the 12C spyder. I got to race and win a car that was uncomparable to the amateur series cars I was racing - sure it was tough farming the R$ I needed to upgrade the car (even the servicing felt costly at the time haha), but I managed to do it by racing more. After that I slowly progressed in the career and enjoyed more special events and the cars I won from them. I was slowly earning gold through completions/levels and budgeting it on cars, required upgrades and even a sale or two. The special events were also an extra way to earn gold.. or they used to be.

Lately things have changed though... with the frequency of special events, I've made almost no progress in the career for the last ~2 months - still near the beginning of Pro. It's hard to pass up the special events because I don't wanna miss the chance to win the cars for less gold, but at the same time, I'm having to spend lots of gold in the limited time we have to complete the event. The bmw hommage was the first car I passed up cuz I didn't have much time and also because I didn't feel it was worth spending any gold. Sadly it's looking like I'll have to pass on 2 of these 4 new GTE cars.. after shelling out gold to get the Venom to 91.1 (assuming I'd be spending it later anyway, and that the upcoming events couldn't possibly require as much gold), I'm now down to just 370.. This is the point where some ppl would just spend real money for gold to take advantage of the discounts available.. but with rr3 thats not really an option.. because the gold required would cost over $100... kinda ridiculous for a few cars in a game - and that would only get you the upgrades required to win them. So I'm left with no reasonable way to win these great cars. What makes it even worse is I'd even have to spend gold to unlock the 100K/3 lapper that could really help out my R$ situation right now too. Realizing that I can't complete these special events and having to give up really sucks the fun out of the gaming experiece. I don't think I've ever hit this sort of a barrier in a game before.. It's like someone dangling candy just out of your reach.. and knowing that they're soon gonna tie it up even further out of your reach.

I think I see what FM is doing.. they're just keeping their long time users from reaching 100% and draining their gold reserves, to keep them playing, but this doesn't seem like a great way to do it... they're ruining the experience for their newer players.