User blog comment:Raydulous/My Personal Opinion About the Renault Alpine Celebration R&D/@comment-84.140.112.157-20170211190800

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TerceroIV

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Re: Renault Alpine Celebration R&D Thu Feb 09, 2017 5:04 am Hello, devs at Gameloft.

I've been playing this game for over a year now. I kinda got too late to the party and never even met the version of the game which was sold but only the in-game purchase model. I kinda wish I had payed for a complete game and enjoyed it thoroughly.

But as it stands, I came to find a game where most fancy cars, upgrades, and tournaments had to be payed for individually. Nevermind, I liked the game and even though I don't have a lot money to spend on games I made my mind I'd settle for what you guys would offer for free.

Then it hit me; I could never get a Trion Nemesis or a Devel Sixteen and fully upgrade it without putting real money into the game. I too settled without these.

The thing is, I live in Mexico and your tokens and credits packs are way, way too expensive. If I want to buy tokens for one of the above mentioned cars, I would have to be willing to throw 100 dollars into the game. In Mexican currency that is two weeks of my salary. Can you understand how ridiculous that is? And I'm not even counting the upgrades. With that kind of money I could go to the closest videogame retail seller and buy me two brand new last gen games, any two I like. Or an XB360.

Any how, I liked the game enough to live with that. I kept playing, slowly getting credits and tokens, buying whatever nice, affordable car I could and upgrading at my own pace. On a couple occasions I actually dropped real money in order to get a much needed upgrade to be able to win a car in a tournament.

Please don't get me wrong, I know this is what you make a living on and I get it. But today, after spending many more hours than I would like to admit in the Renault Alpine tournament, spending almost 1 million of my hard-earned credits and about 1500 tokens on this challenge, and after what felt like 200 too many advertising videos, I finally upgraded the car to the best I could as I ran out of V6 motor cards. Apply a tuning kit, a nitro booster and a doble tank and I'm ready to face the test number 50, with a tuning level just above the recommended for this particular track.

But as many stated before me, I was met with an impossible challenge. Perfect tapping, triple tapping, double tapping, single tapping... no matter just how I used the nitro, what ramps I took or didn't, whether I used the same shortcuts the AI did. Nothing made a difference. The AI is programmed to do an impossible time on one of the hardest tracks you've ever come up with.

I went as far as buying a token pack to get more keys and try again... that would've been OK. Drop a couple dollars, help the devs out and get a nice car. But heck no. About 10 tries later the tournament time ran out and the closest I could ever get was 3 seconds behind the machine. It's nonsense. It's unfair. It's dumb. It feels like taking a low blow in the balls from somebody in crouching position hiding and striking by surprise from behind.

I actually thought of a lot of mean things to say to you but then again I don't think is gonna do any good. I just want you to know that you shouldn't tell us we can win a car only to find out we need to put in 20 dollars to get it. In my country that is half a week of an average clerk's salary. I think I'd rather buy the groceries of the week with that money, thanks.

I'm not saying I unistalled the game right after this happened, or that I will never ever play anything made by you, GL. But I'm saying I will think twice before launching the game or participating in any kind of tournaments from now on. There's just no point in paying for winning and I hate being tricked into spending the money I work so hard to get.

You've come a long way from the days of selling complete games for 5 bucks --which I'm totally in favor of--.

Oh boy, good ol' times.