Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31526827-20190904081306

So, as I wrote on the Wall of Rememberence, I figured this next release was the end of me; and it looks like it will come to pass. Not a brick wall full stop but from where I've been for 2 years to today? Hitting the brakes with both feet and throwing it into reverse slowing.

After picking up some rewards and taking care of the last upgraded I needed to get that 650 GT ES,  I've got 112 GC left.

I cannot afford any of the new cars, at all, not even close. I am one upgrade away from FU the Clubsport, but I'm 38 GC short. Upgrading it will get me a higher paying ES for it. So, I need 38 GC.

For the need of 38 GC I'm basically saying, screw this.

What it takes to make 38 GC is just plain silly, truly silly. Even on the only just now new ES, to earn 38 GC I've got to drive and drive and dirve and drive and dddrrriiivvveeee endless laps against the same car as mine (usually passing them all before lap 1 is over, so I'm just basically driving around empty tracks) for hours. I need to complete between 15-30 events (30-100 laps) before I'l barely scrap enough together to earn just this one upgrade. Just one upgrade for one car. Or I could run a dozen 10 lappers (hahaha). I can't watch ads, but even if I could, I'd have to fiddle wiht time zones and what not. Yea, right. Or I could do some career series. R U Kidding me?! 100+ laps and I still won't have the 38 GC. Serioiusly?!

THIS. It's taken getting to this point, and now well past my addiction (and that's what it was, I got addicted to 100% garage and race after race to see what this upgrade and that car could do), finally now I can see just how incredibly silly and patently ridiculous the economy TRULY is. Any complaint I've lodged against it in the past pales in comparison to how I feel about it now. The amount of effort to achieve even simple one car things is just silly.

AND, lets just say I decide to take mind numbing amounts of drugs to nullify the boring effects of mindless laps and I grind and grind away and earn what I need for this upgrade and, oh heck, another car. You can only run those careers once for the reward, then they are gone. You can only complete the ES's once and then even those slightly more generous rewards are gone. Sure, I'm in Group B (lucky me, I've got a FU Ferrari in my garage) but that won't pay off for days. OMP? hahaha, gotta wait a week to get my 15 GC hahaha.

The folks in this wiki who are not paying a penny and still having most of the cars - you guys are utterly amazing. I don't know if you do it through mental powers beyond my comprehension, if you are savaants or just a bit crazy - dunno how you do it, I cannot do that. I cannot play every single day for hours a day just to barely afford one upgrade on one car so I can earn, in return, not enough to change the oil on another car.

I applaud you who can do the grind, the farming - even those who have the patience to switch time zones and "watch" countless ads or who can let their phones run hours and hours of "auto pilot" races for paltry rewards. Watching those guys leveling up to 500+ is just astounding, but not at all my goal.

It's finally happened, I've grown tired of racing against bots and endless laps on empty tracks (everyone far far behind me). Endless endurance is almost as bad as 10 lappers, except far more frustrating.

I'm venting because I'm frustrated that it has to end this way. I'm angry because my GFs kid came over earlier today and I explained what was going on and he wanted to play. He was really blown away by how many cars and tracks and all these things to do. hehehe, I put his butt to work farming an ES for me and he dug it (it was new to him). After we got back from dinner I saw him playing, not on my AppleTV but on his phone. I was like, don't tell me you downloaded it and are starting up on your own. DON'T DO IT! I warned him. I told him, don't get addicted cause it'll end up costing you $ you don't have and hours and hours you could be doing real life things -- and he cut me off and showed me his garage. I spotted the four digits of GC first and then saw his 100% garage... I gave him back his Samsung and just smiled. He's gonna have fun racing and won't be spending one single penny on it. Ahhhh I wish I had gone his route two years ago.

The route that probably over half of the other 99% of players do. The first half playing a few times, making a IAP purchase, running out in a heartbeat and saying; oh well, fun. Next. Waht is sad about that is that if FM had set up a realistic economy and generous rewards that are not inhumanly cruel many people wouldn't feel the need to do it. Heck, I'd stick around if I could make enough GC just racing normally to cover at least one single car out of the update. Sadly, I can't. Not literally, but effectively. See, I've got a life and it involves hours of time NOT racing. I'm no longer going to log in every single day in hopes of getting to those last one or two daily bonuses that don't pay for a single upgrade. I'm certainly not going to run endless ES to pay for a single upgrade. And I've sworn off purchases months ago. So...

Fare well friends - enjoy - try not to let frustrations with FM bring you down. Enjoy your game!

(I'll still stick my head in here, and, heck, I'll still run some things, I do have a 100% garage (prior to this update) so got some free play left. But, sadly, no more new cars for me. That's gonna bug me so much, I know myself, it'll discourage me from returning. Especially watching that kid playing with every FU car in th game in a couple hours. Punk :) 