Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31252264-20181027075752/@comment-28169398-20181028175449

If you are buying your gold via In-App Purchases, then I understand your complaints. You are supporting the development of the game, and you would like to enjoy all aspects of it. However, you are forgetting that the game subsidizes what you spend, with rewards for playing. If you actually track your Gold transactions, you will see that there is a ratio of 2:1 to 5:1 Free Gold to Gold you have purchased. So you are still getting subsidized by a lot of free gold.

If you are accumulating gold via ads views, you also help to support the development of the game, however, given how low an amount in-game ads pay, then it isn't as big a contribution as someone who buys IAPs several times a year. And if you are only watching the first 5 Gold ads, then you are contributing next to nothing to game development

If you are only getting gold by playing the game, Completion Rewards, Level Ups, WTTT, OMP, etc. then you have nothing to complain about. The developers aren't earning anything from you. You are taking from the game without giving anything back. These rewards are what are supposed to balance out the IAP spends and Ad watching. But as you are not contributing any revenue to developers, you are eroding the value of Gold and how much the developers can subsidize the paying customers for their game play.

Like any economy, that leads to inflation. In order to balance it out, the developers need to reduce reward payouts, make upgrade costs more expensive, and make challenges that give big rewards more difficult.

Then there are the players who use the events as a free ATM. They play as far as R$ rewards will get them, take the rewards, and move on. This forces the developers to reduce early stage rewards. Why do you think you can only get to 24% completion in LTSs now with R$ only upgrades? And why there are some very difficult goals much earlier in SEs these days?

Last but not least are the true parasites. Those are the players that hack or use exploits to get gold. How many of you who are complaining on this thread used the MP4-X on Le Mans to level up many times a day? Well, guess what. You created a huge expense for the developers because of a bug in their software. How does a business pay for an expense? They have to take in revenue. And when they have to cover an expense like that, it generally means they have to raise prices, meaning that the game gets more expensive, challenges get harder, and rewards that are supposed to subsidize the legitimate revenue generating customers get reduced.

If you are a player that supports the development of the game through IAP or watching tons of ads, then at least understand that most of the blame for increasing expense and difficulty lies with your fellow players that drive inflation.

If you aren't willing to spend on IAPs or at the very least watch a ridiculous amount of ads a day to help support development of the game, then you really aren't the players the developers are trying to cater to anyway. The sooner you quit for something else, the better the in-game economy will become for the revenue generating players.