Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-38105396-20191126201852/@comment-26388545-20200112221553

DrestinBlack wrote: In my totally uninformed, unscientific and completely speculative opinion: FM wants All races to end by lap 20 or so. The crash in 8.0 was purely unintentional, of course. But ... ultimately, endless endurance is too easy a way to uplevel, get “free” GC and therefore not good for the bean counters.

I could be wrong. It is certainly not free gold. People invest a huge amount of time to earn it. I know many people who learned no assist driving and fully upgraded cars only for this purpose. It is a direct exchange of time for fame for gold. Even easy races become hard because you have to stay focussed and you can definitely get fatigued. I had to quit endless racing for several months because I got an upper back/shoulder injury from it. Too much time spent doing fine motor skills.

Many people are of the opinion that endless endurance racing only benefits the racers, I don’t necessarily believe that. One metric I expect would be useful For FM is the amount of gameplay per day, per week and per month. This could be something that advertisers would like to know or even something that stockholders would like to know. Endless endurance racers drag up this metric for those who don’t do it.

I’ve been of the opinion for a long time that this is mutually beneficial. I think the amount of effort that they put into making endless racing work again supports this.