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ME7 wrote: NASCAR Daytona week starts Feb 13, would be cool if update was tomorrow. Prob not with the Porshce speed challenge starting tomorrow. ESPN article says it is to be released Monday. Of course that will be Monday North American time - so still "Tuesday" for release notes (Australian time) purposes.

Re money: I just want to go back to that time trial investigation I did.

You start with enough money to buy the Fusion NASCAR. You win enough to upgrade it fully. So no one's making money there.

But... the number of people who have bothered to go through to running the NASCAR "hero cars" is roughly the same as those who have bothered to do so for the Asterion. That, surely, is where they planned on making their money (no money in the Fusion NASCAR only in the "hero cars") - and I just don't see the evidence for them getting much money (specifically from NASCAR) in the player numbers.

They've probably set the bar way too high between finishing the initial series (with a couple of gold left over) and the 750 to buy into the new series.

I've no doubt that it has attracted massive numbers of additional players - I'm just not seeing the evidence that they're seeing much new money out of those players (which is not to say that they haven't). Arguably, looking at the numbers, you'd more be able to mount a case to say that NASCAR has introduced the NASCAR fan-base to the other cars in the game (which isn't good for NASCAR).