Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-28401107-20190117111544/@comment-28169398-20190120141338

This is all just crazytalk now. The new openness and clarity is much more welcome and in brought all of you access to the game team through Reddit. I'll gladly take that over the back-and-forth BS that used to take place. This site has always been about developing a strategy for play, and the best way to come up with a successful strategy is to have the information to plan ahead.

Announcements are made a week or so before the release, so it isn't that different than before. There are some historic trends but most of you don't know what is happening with the game and your comments all show it. No one is even close to knowing what is coming in the next few updates. There are a couple of reasonable suggestions about what may be coming in 7.1, but after that, it isn't on anyone's radar...

Here is what is surprising about the openness that you are seeing, it is that it is actually there at all. One of the main drivers of the Freemium Model is to trigger a sense of urgency in the player to override rational thinking, causing them to deviate from a strategy of free play and inducing them to make In-App Purchases.

Even something as simple as knowing the roster of cars in WTTT lets you plan ahead. Sure there are some surprises, like how well the AM Vanquish performed this week compared to the top car, but you can look down the list and have a good idea how much you are going to earn from the tournament. If it looks like a bad update, then maybe you make a decision to not go for a car or two or not buy when a sale triggers. If on the other hand, you can reasonably assume that you are going to pretty easily get into Group C or even B, then that can influence in a different way.