User blog comment:Azelfland/My top 5 unpopular opinions about Asphalt 8/@comment-4733413-20170902001757/@comment-178.216.34.165-20170903193425

Wait times in mobile games suck.

But heres the thing, if you look at the most sucessful mobile games of all time(Clash of Clans, Pokemon Go, Game of War, Candy Crush Saga, Clash Royale +some more) they all have wait times for different aspects of the game, and they all Have IAP aswell.

Now we come to asphalt, at the time of typing this out im looking at the Top Games on android and asphalt 8 is number 65... the next racing game is CSR2 which is number 72 but thats just drag racing  and then theres "Extreme Car Driving Simulator" which i don't even know what that is at number 100, and Need For Speed No limits at Number 155 -  which imo is even worse than asphalt - and no other racing games in the top 150.

In Asphalt The core game is the Various Seasons and Multiplayer, NOT TLEs, NOT RNDs, NOT EDDs, NOT Championships, for these 2 things; Single player seasons(ill include mastery aswell i guess) and Multiplayer you do not have to wait to play, Sure some cars are elite and you'll have to wait for them, but theres 180+ cars you can use while you wait - albeit most of them suck and are useless. Now lets talk about multiplayer, It Sucks simple as that, they did a terrible job with the matchmaking and rewards, But the main point is you do not have to wait to play it, you have to wait to get rewards from it, if you like playing multiplayer you will play it regardless of rewards or not.

Now, talking about the game, At the current state of the game in my opinion you do not "own" it, you simply play it. Yes asphalt used to cost 0.99$ and for that price it was one of the best values, and since then it has infact gone downhill. Currently the price is completely free, it all depends on what you decide to do, Asphalt 8 is a 0$ game so Gameloft owes you a 0$ experience. If you choose to download it its your choice, if you choose to play it its your choice if you choose to buy any of the ripoff microtransactions its your choice, they do not owe you anything, and they will not hold your hand and give you free stuff for nothing.

Lets talk about playing the game. Yes some people might play the game for more than 10 mins, some people might even play for more than 20 or 30 mins, but let me ask you this: If you really had 30 mins to play a game you would really choose playing a mobile game - not just asphalt - for that amount of time? Its they're mobile games, ment to be played on the bus or in the subway, or when you have downtime at work/school