Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-32672384-20190105002857/@comment-32545704-20190116163306

''People are still cheating > therefore FM doesn't care about cheaters and are happy to tolerate it. It must be so easy to get rid of the cheaters but they choose not to.''

Costs go up > therefore FM must be greedy.

EA is a successful company > therefore RR3 must be making obscene profits.

People use exploits > therefore they don't spend any money on the game.

Etc. etc.

These all look like massive assumptions to me. They might hold some truth, but then again they might not. Maybe it's not so easy to get rid of cheaters, because they seem to be trying very hard at the moment. Maybe costs have to go up so we can get new tracks like COTA, for example. Maybe it's to cover losses from exploits. Maybe licencing costs are going up, there are a lot more cars in the game now. Maybe RR3 wasn't making enough money in the past to be viable, so they had to push up costs or EA would close the game. There are all sorts of possible reasons, but it's much easier to jump to the first conclusion which fits our agenda. The truth is we don't know what is happening behind the scenes.

Some people always assume the worst in others. From what I've seen, the developers are good people who are genuinely trying to make the best product they can, listening to our feedback while also needing to run a successful business and meet EA's targets. No the game isn't perfect, but I think they do a pretty good job and are striving to make it better. We're all still here playing after all.

There are lots of things which could be improved, and there's nothing wrong with complaining. But there's a way to do it without assuming the worst or being disrespectful. I've seen how Matt patiently and courteously repsonds to every one of Drestin's posts on reddit, only to be showered with abuse. Dumb monkeys this, lazy monkeys that, incompetent monkeys this, greedy monkeys that. And he wonders why he always gets downvoted? I still haven't seen any evidence to support his claims, but Drestin doesn't seem to know the difference between assumptions and facts.

I've spent almost £100 and counting on VIP cars so far. Now that I know Drestin has spent much more than me, I suppose my opinion doesn't matter.