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It's not a great deal, but I like the idea that they're offering to sell fame bonuses. I think it's a positive. Hopefully we'll see more of this sort of thing.

I would have thought the "sweet spot" was more like £15 for extra 100% fame for an entire month, but it's a move in the right direction. By "sweet spot" I mean getting into a category of "I want to reward the devs for making a great game, but I also want to get something that would meaningfully help me in the game".

So I think it's a good thing that they're diversifying what you can buy. Maybe they'll consider selling "reward packs" where you might get a be able to buy different periods of bonus fame or R$, or a real winner "ugprade packs".

They could add some spice by offering "random rewards" - which they're more likely to do with things like "free upgrade" (but you might just get R$ instead). Need to be careful with "random rewards" though because people are notoriously bad at understanding how random number generators work.

But they do need to do something with the money model. I've said it before and will doubtless say it again... gold required is out of proprtion to the cost to buy it - which actually works as a disincentive to spend any money. And they want/need us to spend money.

I will say that it feels like the balance is a lot better in this release in terms of the "extra gold required" versus "extra gold available". I forgot to keep exact figures from the last release but it looks like the "gold gap" on this release is at least in line with the "top package".

That is, the cost of paying for the difference between winnable gold and required gold is about £64 more since the last release - £846 up from £782, top package is approx £80 (this excludes whatever the winnable gold is for Stingray Evolution).

This also ignores free gold from daily rewards, ads and levelling up (which would not be insubustantial across the 3500+ races you'd need to race to get 100%).But I haven't got around to checking the total fame payout (and I probably won't) - so easiest just to look at direct gold. Daily rewards is only an extra 390 to date, small enough to ignore (it's about £30 off the total to date) . And ads are so variable (by region and device and personal patience threshold) that it's easier to leave it out.