Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-38264419-20190122174617/@comment-28169398-20190126012540

Biscuits N&#039; Pulp wrote: Amrosa wrote: I am not defending FM, I am simply giving you the reality, one informed by actual, unguarded conversations with FM. If you don't want to hear it because it doesn't fit your model of thinking, so be it. Why should our discussions of this game be any different than politics or the denials of scientific facts that occur in the broader society? There's one huge difference - we are sitting here saying we are either bored, fed up, or just don't have the time to stay afloat - and with all of those ideas we are eventually going to leave. Me personally I'm just putting in time hoping something changes - I don't want to leave yet because I see potential, but right now RR3 is not my primary game. If it gets to a point where I have to spend more time to even stay afloat then I'll go play other games where 1 hour a day gets me ahead (not to mention a $10 purchase gets you a lot). And if RR3 loses significant amount of users then the game will die - I'm not asking to make the game easy, all I'm wanting is the illusion I could get ahead with 1 hour of playing or small IAP (think 500 GC for $10, not $80) The game will also die if FM's bosses say it isn't earning enough, fire the team and shutter that part of the studio.

That is their reality. Be happy that you actually have two people, Matt and Jay that really want to bring the best experience to the players they can while still meeting the performance goals they have set by management. They care about these forums and are actively reading them... there bosses, especially the ones outside of the studio itself don't. They look at graphs and spreadsheets and the put an awful lot of pressure on Matt and Jay. And if Matt and Jay don't produce, I do not doubt that they will look for people who do hit the targets and don't give a damn about a word that is written on these forums or even care about cars or racing. And if those people don't produce and RR3 gets the plug pulled, all of those who have spent hundreds of dollars will be left with nothing going forward.

That doesn't mean that things cannot be better, but there is real money behind the in game economy, on both the players side and the developer's side, and it sounds like the bosses are as unhappy as many of the players here, and unfortunately that unhappiness is at odds with each other.