Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26829117-20180113095630/@comment-28169398-20180118003340

Considering that they do not provide the Required PR for LTSs or the cost of upgrades on cars until you unlock that stage of upgrades, they really have more than enough to take down this wiki if they wanted to. A player playing de novo, without the data on this site has no knowledge of how much each car will cost to use, what it takes to win an event, or to advance to the next career stage. They just keep buying and going, then buy again.

Think about it from the psychological perspective of the freemium model. You hook the player into an event and then after they have invested in the initial stages, they are far more likely to keep going with expensive upgrades, maybe even going the IAP route. it is simple game theory; the more a player (gambler) is in the hole, the more likely they will be to spend more to try and get out of it, only to get deeper in. By providing the data to allow players to make informed decisions, you are in effect undermining that model.

If FM wanted players to have PR requirements at the start of events or upgrade costs on cars, they would provide that information up front, in-app. You don't think that they have already done the calculus of the cost benefit of this wiki on their business model and feel it is within tolerable limits in that it promotes more usage and revenue than they lose from the undermining of the hook then drain model? If FM hasn't, then EA certainly has.