Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-30967537-20190930215034/@comment-31526827-20191001211957

This is an interesting move. Making the loaner car the obvious choice to drive. I'm back racing just because I have all three FU and the 720S is VIP. It took only two tries in both other cars to make it plainly obvious the 720s is the best car for this race and by a large margin. Haha just look at the leaderboard.

Compare with the terrible way the Ferraris have been pitted against not-even-close matches in prior weeks. It was obvious the Ferrari has to be your choice to win but those were cars on current LTS and needed to be FU, an obvious GC grab for EA.

You have to wonder how this will work out. In the past, the loaner wasn't going to win, and, significantly, even if you spent the GC to FU it. But here, spending the GC will get you a significant boost. My very first run was three hundredths out of B and now I'm just below A and believe you me I'm out of practice and only spending a little time trying. I'm working through the Uncharted series of games on PS4 now ($20 for four full games, no IAP needed).

i wonder if they are experimenting to see if they'll lure more people to spend because the car was initially free and folks may get caught up in the "if I only upgraded a little bit more" mentality.