Well fellas, you certainly are headed down the wrong fork in the road. For me, what you have been doing the last several months is not only a "bait and switch", but basically unAustralian. You guys have made me feel like aussies are no less greedy than other DEV's around the world.
Which, as you fore-well know, is not what us Australians are known to be. You are quickly alienating the very people that gave you success and a pile of money.
Yes, you operate as a business and have overheads blah blah blah. BUT! where will you be if a major amount of gamers turn their backs on you?
Just imagine the flow-on effect for such things as advertisers noticing a drop in their revenue attached to RR3
I never enjoy complaining because aussies aren't known to be whingers. We are renowned for taking our lumps and being brutally honest.
Well, here comes some brutal honesty from a fellow aussie.
1. You continue to allow blatant cheating in events that can deliver major amounts of gold coins. You cannot tell me other DEV's are the only ones with software that detects cheating instantly with OMP. You continue to fail to address how some cars on some tracks in OMP are forced to race with little or no headlights. Several times in my requests to you directly, you have blown it off as something that can be solved in this forum. When in fact it is a technical issue you continue to ignore.
Also, the fact first across the finish in OMP doesnt always mean you win is ridiculous, especially when you factor in hucksters that collide with you, hard brake in front of you etc etc etc. The corner cutting penalty is so grossly wrong, it isnt even funny, especially when there are still chicanes you can drive over and not get penalized. And yet, on some bends, you get the time penalty for driving on the curb.
How can you guys get it so wrong?
No, really
2. You ridiculously price high end cars in gold. Even at a 50% discount, how can you buy a car worth 1000 gold coins? Or even 500 gold coins? Your gold purchase packs are obscene. Your upgrade prices for cars is equally offensive. The latest ETron LTS was a complete farce with upgrade costs for a car with less than 50PR. What is the point of accumulating 10's of millions in R$, when there's very little to spend it on?
3. Changing the free gold ad viewing is truly disgusting and an obvious ploy to bully people to spend real world money on something that has no real world return. Months ago you could maybe earn 20 gold in a 24 hr period, now it's a pathetic 5, then a piddly 2K R$ per view. If that's not bad enough, since instituting the 30% time reduction on servicing, you continually cut it off or reduce it in the last several hours of LTS, whenever there's a Gauntlet or any other timed event. You simply do this again to bully people into reducing their gold reserves. Personally, the ETron challenge on the last day, I had to keep paying for servicing simply because of your overt greed for my precious gold
4. Being an "Elite Racer" and the "Exclusive Series" are both a ruse. Why would anyone spend 500 or 600 per car to upgrade it just to win 150 gold? I would rather the "Elite" status get punted and bring back everyone's ability to harvest 20 gold a day. Do the math and you'll soon see that you could possibly earn 140gold every seven days. Multiple that buy 4 and its 560. Certainly more gold you get as a bonusX3 for being "Elite"
You are going the very same route as Tetris Battle went on Facebook. Their game became less and less popular because they kept applying the rule of greed. As Albert Einstein defined as "insanity", you are doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.
It is no wonder you are getting really bad reviews/feedback via Google Play.
I am pretty sure my gripe will fall on deaf ears. Just remember the Mclaren debacle. People don't forget things so easily. For every attempt at greed(you bombarding me in the final hours of the latest LTS with supposed "EXCLUSIVE OFFER!") you apply, you lose players and potential paying players.
Nothing is for free in life, I get that. But what I dont get is how you have become so overtly greedy by changing how LTS cars drive in those events and drive completely different after youve got the car. The Etron I won is running circles around all comers in events.
Yet, in the LTS you sure made it that I couldnt win several times and bullied me out of the most precious/sort after thing in this game...GOLD COINS!
