Talk:Asphalt Xtreme/@comment-134.19.187.45-20161122150023/@comment-93.158.216.108-20161122180558

Fraud? Hardly, but the rest is true. You are bound to loose if you don't have the rank.

I would not know how far you have progressed through the game, but I can assure you it will get worse :)

I'll explain that a little bit: Once you get to the Pro season, you would probably only have around 200 tokens unless you've spent any and you will find yourself in need of buying preferably the Peugeot 2008 DKR. Now this car is a good one, but you will only get around 4 races out of it and then you will need to change the oil. That will take 1 hour or set you back 50-ish tokens to skip! Now that means that you on a 'gaming' day at the maximum will be able to get 16-20 races out of the car.

Add to this that you will be constantly out of credits due to the game needing this and that car to progress and they're way to expensive for anyone to buy simply playing the game (at least in a reasonable time frame) and we're at the core of it.

This game is not free to play as that is bound to stop itself because the price is high for cars/skipping oil-change and rewards are small. Imagine racing all the way to the 'Pro' level and still not have enough to buy any token car...

In other words, I totally agree with you in that this is all greed, no game - a trend that will continue according to their own writing:

Gameloft's 'Value creation virtous circle' taken from page 13 in their official London report (Londonofficial_AllIn.pdf) which reads:


 * New player


 * More IAP revenues and more high quality audience (read paying)


 * Advertising monetization opportunity through programmatic


 * Increased revenue and profitability per player


 * Higher ROI on user acquisitions


 * Increased user acquisitions

As is evident, they want more money from each user. So much for 'free to play'. Now follow this line and then think how it will be for Asphalt 9 when that is released next year - I'm no stranger to paying, but if I feel forced to pay without getting the price up front I react in a negative way. A8 costed me $500 and that is too much for a game ...