Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25711686-20150531051935/@comment-27784551-20160212181143

As long as there will be enough people who pay, the prices will stay as they are. I dont see the reason for this big fuss about gold though.

Firstly, a game of such scale as RR3 needs income, and it would be dead long ago if it would not give profit to developers/owners. In a perfect world everyone should pay a few $ monthly to maintain the game running, and everyone would be happy. Unfortunately economical situation differs A LOT around a world, and not everyone can afford that, so the rich ones have to compensate for the poor ones (or stingy ones). As long as free-play is possible, does not sound that bad.

I'm playing RR3 for approx. 2 years, with some breaks, which might sum up to 1 year non-stop playing. With playing up to 1 hour, max 2 hours a day, I dont see any problems with desperate lack of gold or anything. I have actually wasted A LOT of gold at the beginning by implemeting wrong tactics of buying each and every car and trying to get 100% on all events, including bonus ones. It sums up to thousands of wasted gold I believe, yet I still havent stopped my game progress at any point due to lack of gold, and I'm in Legend series. There are lots of ways to get gold - daily login bonuses, team challenges, watching ads. It adds up to pretty decent amounts monthly. Gold becomes an issue in two cases.

- If youre playing like 10 hours a day, and expect to get all the gold you need from completion bonuses. In that case the "gold gap" becomes pretty big, and I might understand all the ranting. Daily bonuses etc. just cant keep up to compensate gold expenses if you're flying at speed of light through the career. Maybe better slow down and get a life, lol?

- If your goal is to get 100% completion of the game, you lack a lot of gold, true. Or those who calculate expenses for full upgrades? Seriously? Why dont you rant at your local government about not providing you with salaries high enough to allow you to keep a carpark of 130 cars, and tune up all of them? So you are expecting to finish each and every aspect of game that easy? And what next? Either quit or become a cheater "just for fun"?

Obviously, you cant make everyone happy, but for an average player this freemium model does not look that crippled to be honest. There are other acpects of game which need attention more urgently. Multiplayer physics? Time triel cheaters? :)

Oh, and yeah, I pay a few $ every now and then (no more that 20-30 per year). Not because of lack of gold, but because I can afford it, and programmers/managers need their salaries too. If we dont pay (reasonable amounts) for games we like, nobody will develop them.