Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-33321800-20180405220445/@comment-35180316-20180407012227

SeedSpeed wrote: HULK7WGX :" FM apparently dont give a rats a$$ about their OG(old guard) because of new players coming into the game pumping money into FM coffers."

I think old players are allways in a better position then any new player. I already new FM's RR3 had a really crappy reputation. I thought I knew the extent of the criticism. That was until I read Wikipedia last night. I willl just drop a link for all to read with a tiny extract. Yes, I already know the machinations of editing within Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Racing_3#Reception

'"At a time when the gaming world is finally comfortable with the idea of a triple-A mobile game, Real Racing 3 should have been a triumphant affirmation of a point made convincingly enough by the first game in the series. Instead, it's been strangled by the tentacles of gaming's next unconquerable: free-to-play. If games like Dota and Tribes are the warm, welcoming faces of free-to-play, then Real Racing 3 is the grotesque polar opposite, the snarling grinch that's the embodiment of every sceptic's worst nightmare. It's cynical, it's nasty and it's hard-wired into the very fabric of the game, making it totally unavoidable [...] There's a good game somewhere within Real Racing 3'' - and there are plenty of free-to-play games that prove this model can work while respecting the player. Firemonkeys and EA have got that balance horribly, horribly wrong, to an extent where the business model becomes the game - with gut-wrenching results."[21] '''