Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-38264419-20190122174617/@comment-28169398-20190128052318

SeedSpeed wrote: Cheats and exploits have been discussed greatly, don't want to go there again. Just want to mention big impact on the whole game and economy, and FM's unwillingness to deal with it for looong time ( not that they weren't warned). While on the other hand prices for real money are in heaven... There are often difficult to fix.

Farming is technically an exploit. The Le Mans 10-lap race and some of the other Le Mans races have fame payouts that are based on the wrong calculation. When they identified the error and tried to fix it, there was a huge player backlash, so the reverted it back to the mistaken payout.

The result was that people farmed a lot and it flooded the in game economy with gold from leveling up that wasn't intended. This in turn reduced the margins which meant that gold costs for cars needed to be increased and completion and fame payouts for new content needed to be reduced.

And yes, these were mistakes that they made and they should have been a lot more careful with quality control, but the player base didn't let the fix these mistakes after they were identified. Other mistakes, like multicollect of WTTT reward required them to basically completely rewrite how rewards were distributed, which costs significant amount of time, resources and salary to implement.

The game and the racing is fun, the economy isn't. Both sides have some blame for the economy that is there.