Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31600610-20190906021246/@comment-31526827-20190907062143

There IS an economy in RR3, but it's one geared towards spending with little reward. Things cost more than any normal player could earn, forcing one to either abandon the game (no loss to EA) or make a purchase. NO matter how small it's money (-30% for the store) in their pocket. And we are talking about hundreds of thousands of legit downloads with a percentage of them making an IAP, EA is making money. Their cost to keep the game going are minimal. Please don't harp on about licensing costs, they are small or game designers wouldn't pay them and just create fantasy cars and fantasy tracks. Programming costs are low because they aren't creating new code or new features (or only tiny incremental ones). Their cost is taking files from car manufacturers and mapping them into cars in the game - a process I would be SHOCKED if it's not mostly automated by now. Any new feature someone can identify in the past year I'd say is a trivial one - to be honest. I mean, they reduced the functionality of WTTT and OMP, not increased it

Look - it bears repeating: if they were to lower the price of their GC I'm willing to bet that they'd actually make more. The longer they can keep racers who are willing to pay around the more they'll make. Some people are only willing to spend $19.99 one time. But, if faced with spending only $4.99 once a month, I bet people would stick around a lot more than 4 months because <$5 is trivial, >= $20 makes people pause and consider, "it's only a game". That's why the Apple Arcade subscription cost is set at $4.99 per month with NO extra costs to play every single game and no IAPs of any kind. They'll make more money from that than RR ever did in it's entire run because of the sheer numbers of users who'll say, 'heck, $5, that's nothing, put it on the credit card on auto pay". With RR3 we agonize over every store purchase. And the high prices forces users who won't give up to simply steal it anyway. Not being able to race in OMP or WTTT or TC? Why would that matter to someone who already has all the cars FUed? They won't need the GC and OMP isn't true multiplayer (with an insultingly low ROI anyway). WTTT, a once a week couple GC (remember, literally 99% of all players make 50 or less, 90% make 25 or less - NiNtY FiVe %). TC? Only cheaters win anything appreciable - they do it for the simple fame, not the GC. SO, the people that'll benefit from lower IAP prices are those that will actually spend money. Who care what cheaters or users here do, we don't support them. Why should they care? I'm pretty sure that "they heard us" wasn't us in the forums, it was the vast majority of folks on their FB page going nuts about it and not buying the car, at all.

Individual cars costing upwards of $100 without even being FU? That's Just Insane! Seriously. 25 Ten lappers or so? haha.

Which reminds me, I wish they'd stop saying "Complete this LTS and you get the car for free" - No you don't. You don't get the base car for free, you can't. You CAN get an upgraded car at a discount price but no one is getting anything free.

Lastly, WhereTF are R$ cars? I mean, come one, throw us one evern once in a blue moon eh? Gimme a break, how hard would that be to throw a crusty old worm eaten bone out there. Remember the AUDI R18 E-TRON QUATTRO (2014)  for only R$4M? An Agera for R$, or a Veyron or the 650S GT3 for R$ - bring that (&*# back!

/rant over.