Thread:Mike458/@comment-27524282-20160614024739/@comment-27524282-20160614213241

Overall, you are indeed right on Elite cars being pointless when their buying / running costs could be better spent elsewhere. Asphalt 8 has been running for 3 years now and Gameloft puts out a new update every few months that keeps adding hugely expensive & overpowered class kings. At this point, A8 has way too many cars with the power creepage in full effect. Compare the Audi S4 as the class D king when the game was first released against the RX-8 and upcoming Nano Flowcell Quantino.

As for why Gameloft keeps pumping out cars & updates, its all about money. Based on slide 27 of this, they've earned 122 Million from the Asphalt series alone with 44 Mil from A8 itself. It goes to show just how lucrative the Asphalt series has become. They have Asphalt 9 already in the works along with 2 spinoff titles and its very likely they'll follow the same formula as in A8.

For the credits balance, ChallengeSY pretty much sumed it up. I grinded in anticipation of the upcoming Merc C 63 R&D, and since most of the other cars in the Enduro update cost tokens to buy, I don't plan on buying those anytime soon.