Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31526827-20200110032232

I didn't complain about 8 and F1 because we got a new track and a lot of new cars. I like the F1 cars and I LOVE the new track. The new currency... well, zero point complaining about it, it's here to stay, like it or not. Also, I cut 8.0 a lot of slack, even with a couple bugs, because it's a .0 release.

The bot behaviour change was obviously an oversight, the result of a change deemed worthwhile in one place - without notice an effect it had elsewhere. I suspect QA has assists turned off :)

The Endless Endurance app crash was also obviously unintentional and a bug. Not caught by QA because they likely didn't have reason to go looking for it and also most likely don't bother running races past 10 laps.

Dealing with the new currency is easier to understand if you get that it was designed entirely around the idea of preventing folks from easily farming ungodly amounts of it quickly. That doesn't come from just introducing a new currency type but by doing to us what they have done with the number of races we can run.

Almost every series that ever comes out is 20+ tiers long and new series get pumped out regularly, some with even just one car in them. More series=better for FM/EA. Yet, here comes the F1 update and we get a lot of new cars to race around and earn easy money on ... so... what do they do?

Not only do they put a 180,000 a day limit on earning (sad face) but they give us just one one series plus one daily tier to drive around on for weeks; and it's a small series, around 15 events toal. Plus the daily has only, what, 3.5 laps in it? If you FU a car (costly!) you get one single more series to run.

So, we get all these cars and a new track -- and we can't drive other cars on that track and the new cars we can run about a dozen or two laps and done for the day.

Further: The ES menu was revamped - better than before but ... meh.

I waiting anxiously for 8.1 becuase I thought, SURELY they will give us a new series to run our F1 cars in. Something before the next official "buy car upgrades" series that we can only run once before it's gone again. And then we'll have 4 cars to run around the exact same laps a couple times a day hitting either the M$ limit or boredom.

It bugs me because, as I said, I enjoy driving the F1 cars but, especially as you upgrade them, they start driving just the same. Just one release later and a larger series that isn't complete is already feeling stale. I mean, the next F1 race wil simply be a version of the current race we have available, just longer (of course). And then it will locked away again. My only incentive to keep buying upgrades is so ... what... I can own a car with flashy lights on top? More F1 cars I can barely use? Earn enough M$ so that I can afford to upgrade F1 cars ... I can barely use?

Now - allow other cars to drive the new track? Tight! Allow these F1 cars some additional races or at least a full lenght series to grind. Sweet! Increase the daily M$ limit?

Instead, I've got some rocket powered metal wheeled skateboard BMWs to skid around the same old tracks. Man!

Thank you FM for improving the ES menu. Thank you for fixing the bot behaviour (and, therefore, my BA low behaviour), I'm glad you fixed that EE bug - whew! Meanwhile: Is it ok that I mention that my Inbox (on AppleTV) is STILL broken (literally, one of the first things I posted about almost 3 years ago). If you are in a bug fixing mood, can ya maybe fix that so that I can keep up with my teammates and friends when they occasionally manage to beat my times? It gives me something to do with my older cars as I'm not buying as much anymore.

I'm sure you are done (beyond done) reading my wall of text. Sorry about that. I got to sit at an actual keyboard today and my wrists didn't hurt so, Carpal Tunnel be damned!

No real need to reply - consider me just venting. I hope everyone has a great day!

p.s., and to everyone in Australia: So sad to read about the fires, I sinerely hope you are all safe and going to recover as quickly as possible. 