User blog:Blackto/Token Hogs And Health Issues

More and more, Asphalt 8 seems to be becoming completely pay to win. I understand "exclusivity" and I understand "fighting tooth-and-nail" for tokens and token cars, but the thing is there are so many token cars, and not many tokens UNLESS you buy them. At most, you may get 250 tokens from an event, but that's where the second problem comes in. Health Issues. You may be thinking "whatever does he mean?". Well For many "high token prize" events, to acquire that token prize you must be top within the top five hundred. Now, this can be a problem, because to stay within the top five hundred, you must basically be racing non-stop. That means every at least one hour and forty minutes, you need to be using your entire fuel bar, waiting another hour forty minutes, and repeating. This is a health issue because in order to keep your position, you must basically be racing night and day, not to mention the boosts you'll likely have to spend for, and the fuel refills. Alas, doing this, trying your best, and even winning races, this puts a lot of stress on the body. For one, people need rest, sleep, and of to eat. Not to mention one of the bigger things is people actually have lives, and need to work to survive, and get paid. As an example, I will look at a prior event. The Volkswagen Golf Design Vision GTI event (yes, I know it's not a good token car, no need to remind me). I was racing this event every hour forty minutes, I usually kept under three hundred every morning, and when I raced though the day, I brought myself to around eighty-fifth. This was difficult, as I was constantly being placed with the regular triple boosters. I still was able to take first place every so often keeping myself high on the leader board. In the end, I got my Golf, taking the fifty-second spot of eighty-five on the leader board. But while I may have gotten my prize, the event drained me. I recall hearing people complain about the spacing of events but all in all, I was pretty tired from the whole affair.

Look, I know this article may be pretty TL;DR, but I wanted to put my opinion somewhere, and it wasn't going on the GL forums, cause I don't think they like long winded posts there. And to boot, no one of importance would notice it. You're lucky if you get a "regards: Rares" there, honestly.

But the moral of this all is, Gameloft is forgetting that even if you have hundreds of thousands of customers, you have to listen because at the end of the day, they're still your customers, and when they go to play your game, be it for relaxing, a challenge, or playing with friends, you still want to get the best experience you can get, and you don't want to be paying $100+ for one car just because it's "exclusive", I mean, I'd pay that much for a special edition game for an established console maybe, but that's just way to big of an investment for whats being offered.

I hope you enjoyed what I've said, and I hope it gives you, something to think about.

See you out racing!

Blackto (Black-toe)(4496)