Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27309169-20160906055621/@comment-188.60.224.210-20161007200351

RandyMc wrote: 157.193.240.2 wrote: It is actually one of the 2 reasons that I uninstalled RR3. The second would be: just let me buy the game for 30 euros and don't bother me with repair delays, gold coins and such... I just want to sit in the couch and do some racing... Exactly.

Charge ONE time, then let me do whatever I want with it. Why can't this even just be an option?

The way they're going, there won't be many people left after a while. Long time players are getting very aggravated, and new players can't see any way to get anywhere. So they're all quitting.

I too fear that's happening. Any new player must feel overwhelmed at the unwarranted amount of gold that's required to buy cars to progress in the career beyond certain point, and the highly inflated gold prices of upgrades that now in general are required already for level 2 upgrades. the only way to win the cars for a reasonable amount is when existing cars are added to special events, but even then an intermediate player would need a good couple of hundred GC to finalize a special event. They may think they're going to increase revenues and profits, but I believe that they're rather squeezing the goose to the point they're going to kill it.

Or... in marketing, when a product is nearing its end-of-life, the strategy is typically to go for a short period of maximization of profit generation. Perhaps RR4 is looming nearer? Three and a half years later, RR3 is already a mature product, isn't it?