Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-33869270-20181214221403/@comment-26388545-20181215233513

I really do wonder about the future of this game, if it is dying. I certainly thought about quitting when I heard that there were no more Special Events. They may come back... They may not. There's many races I didn't run last update. The writing might actually be on the wall for the game.

It is clear that people are going to the grinding approach with many races. Take the Porsche 936 exclusive series for instance. I noticed that the majority of TSM Bots are dreadfully slow. That means that they're running it unserviced and taking the race slow so that they can just get it done. What kind of game is this?? We win expensive fast cars to drive them unserviced, just to get it over with? That's a model that will fail.

I also find the reasons behind no more Special Events to be odd. So the guys who usually do them moved on or something, and there are no other people who can do it. That doesn't make sense. No large, successful company sets itself up to be crippled when 1 or 2 employees move on.

Also, it certainly isn't rocket science. Just like LTS, there would be some type of template. Even if a coder hadn't coded one before, they have dozens and dozens to glean knowledge from. It shouldn't take very long at all for someone who knows about coding to figure out how to do it. Granted, it takes a lot more time to design a Special Event. And I think that's where we're getting to the meat of this thing.

Special Events are time-consuming and therefore expensive to make. LTS events are much less time-consuming and cheaper to make. So the math says... no more Special Events. I think it's short-sighted.

The writing on the wall could be that the guys who moved on went to another part of EA where they were more useful.

Maybe "they moved on, so there can't be anymore Special Events".

Or maybe "a decision was made to stop Special Events, so these guys were moved on".

That slight difference is actually very large. If talent and resources within EA are being moved away from Real Racing 3, then that is a bad sign.

Please note that this is just my supposition.

My problem is that this game no longer requires very much skill at all. We don't "win" cars anymore. We basically pay a price for upgrades and drive them. It's like getting onto a bumper car ride at the amusement park. I pay a fee and I just drive it around till I'm done. Well that's all I'm doing in LTS races. I'm forced to pay a fixed fee and I don't need much skill at all to get the job done. I could go back to my old setup of Tilt A, SA high, BA low and TC on to get things done. However that is dreadfully boring for me! so I race with no assist, take every cut possible and smash lapped cars in frustration.

The only reason to race with no assists anymore is for WTTT or OMP. Well they are exactly the same now. If you are a top WTTT driver then you will be a top OMP driver. HOWEVER... You will need many cars and you will need them fully upgraded to be in the top-tier.

I think the mistake that they've made in regards to Special Events, is that Special Events are what generated the most amount of talk. It's fine to look at numbers on paper and do math, but what about the social aspect of the game??

I started playing this game way more intensely AFTER I joined this forum. Talking to people here, getting encouraged by people here, making friends here, all made this game more interesting. Special Events are what drew new people here. Not the only thing, but I believe it is one of the biggest. It was during Special Events when I noticed a big influx of new people. That gave opportunity to attract more people to stay and be a part of this community.

YIKES... I rambled on for quite a while there. Well that's my two cents or... 💰💰. I hope I'm completely wrong. I hope Special Events start up again soon. Whatever happened behind the scenes will become quite evident in the coming weeks and months.