Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26249703-20150522225052/@comment-86.5.214.29-20150525185548

I started playing RR3 18 months ago and despite stopping a couple of times out of frustration let my stubborn side get the better of me and decided I was going to get to 100% completion without paying any money for gold. For the first 5-6 months I was playing, I didn't realize how valuable gold was, and I wasted lots of gold, thousands of it probably: paying to get cars serviced faster, paying to get cars delivered sooner and for upgrades to be done immediately.

A few days ago, after way too many hours doing 10-lappers at Le Mans and watching ads every day, I finally did it. Had enough gold to buy the last 3 cars (Miura, LaFerrari and Toyota) without waiting for sales and to finish the last ten events of the 2,919.

I've won more than 16,500 gold. I've spent quite a lot on upgrades, 1816 upgrades done, including the expensive upgrades to get the F14T, 919, 2014 RSR, Vantage GTE and others up to near maximum PR. Reached Level 430. Earned > R$320,000,000.

I was curious and wondered how much more gold I would need to fully upgrade every one of the 112 cars. A rough estimate based on looking at the car pages on the wiki says that I would need more than another 27,000 gold to fully upgrade every car. That's completely insane.

It doesn't make sense to me that there are enough stupid "whales" out there spending thousands of real dollars on games like RR3, but there must be if the game companies keep sticking with this business model. I've gotten many hours of enjoyment out of RR3 and would gladly have paid a reasonable sum to purchase the game up front (although by now the vast majority of hours I've played have been boring gold farming because I am stubborn and not fun racing.)

27,000 more gold just to complete upgrades. After playing for hundreds of hours to earn 16,500 gold. Talk about greedy. I reached my 100% goal and I think it's time to quit and uninstall before the next update sucks me back in.