Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31433854-20190816020921/@comment-1905583-20190816041159

Mugwumps your post is spot-on and I completely agree with all points.

Unfortunately I think RR3 is designed firstly, above any other considerations to bleed gold/money from its players. Race events are designed for maximum ‘hook and crook’ schemes, where prices are ever increasing for updates and rewards are nearly nonexistent. The Paywall Restriction Rating (oops, I mean Performance Rating) is a wonderful tool for that. The actual experience of racing is secondary, and it definitely shows.

But how can this all change for the better? It won’t. And that has more to do with the players of this game than FM, sadly. One is enabling the other.

As long as there are people playing this game that think slogging through 200 ads everyday is what gaming is all about, then why would FM change the lopsided nature of the game’s “economy”? I say ‘economy’ in quotes because even though FM talks how changes to pricing can affect the game economy, RR3 has no economy. How could it? Prices and rewards are arbitrary, and entirely set by FM. Players have no option to sell off cars or earn gold in any way other than what FM provides. FM controls what cars and upgrades cost. That’s not an economy, since the players have no means of altering any values (aside from complaining).

So many players are so heavily invested into this game that they wouldn’t quit regardless of how ridiculous the game becomes, and FM obviously knows it. I’m not even going to tread down the well-worn path of the hackers/cheaters, since that will never change either. I’m skipping more and more events because spending 1000 or more gold to upgrade a ‘free’ car that likely won’t be used again has become antithesis of what this game should be about. And in the end, I ask myself what’s the point anyway? It’s not like we have the option to use cars we already own (perhaps within a race PR requirement) in multiplayer, when we want to. Of course that won’t ever happen because we would be much less motivated to buy new overpriced cars, and FM can’t allow that.

The only way changes could be hoped for would be for a more concerted and widespread effort at either boycotting events or some other means of pushing back, such as with the recent 911 ClubSport pricing ‘error’ that wasn’t an error at all.