User blog comment:ShinnyShin/The Problems with the S-Class Tier/@comment-66.222.248.159-20160328054612/@comment-27980511-20160329015607

You in fact just answered your own question there, my friend. Might have been my choice of wording that confused you, but I'm pretty much saying the same things as you are.

What I also meant is for the developers to balance the Classes better so that no cars are made worthless when new ones are introduced. You're right about how some of the cars are too powerful for their own good, that's why the Class tiers either need to be re-structured according to the new line-up of cars, OR introduce a new tier above the current S-Class to accommodate these ridiculously powerful new additions.

The current business model is very under-handed and seems to serve only in the interests of the game developer and not the customers who pay through the nose. And this is resulting in quite a few players abandoning the game simply because they can't keep up and are therefore enjoying it less.

Additionally, there's the few legit players who get banned for no reason after putting in huge amounts of effort, and they never see their money again if they've paid to get to where they were, but that's a different story altogether.

Funny you mentioned the Cobra, there's someone a few comments down on this blog who informed me that the Trion NEMESIS is in fact, a dirt-cheap bargain compared to the Cobra in terms of the cost. You have the Trion at 4 million Credits, and the Cobra at 1050 licenses, or close to around 100 MAXed cars in your collection. And its massive rank range between 1015 and 1605 pretty much guarantees that you will run into one regardless of your car's Class or rank. Scary, huh?

The game is so plagued with ads and IAPs it's unreal. I'm even seeing ads at the bottom of my screen while I'm playing. And then again every time in-between. If they're not making much profit this way then I'm lost for words. I mean hey, I would pay the one time to get them removed permanently if that was an option, or at least for them to be reduced so they're not like, every couple of loading screens.

If they made it more enjoyable and less pushy about money, then they would retain and even get some players back, as you mentioned earlier.

After all, Gameloft can't make money without customers, right?