Talk:2018 McLaren X2/@comment-36112529-20180707192252/@comment-27980511-20180711083311

@ BanalShill

Yes I did, but I also understand that developers gotta eat and have kids to feed too.

But then again, we all gotta eat.

And if it means paying for virtual items that I don't actually get to own (i.e. when they  eventually shut down the Asphalt 8 services and we all have nothing to show for it in the end) is what I'm looking ahead to. I would feel very ripped off as a customer if I was the paying type.

It's not like those old-fashioned  games that you buy just the one time, get to own a copy of and support the game's creators through your purchase.

Another thing that makes it harder for me personally to get my head around is the blatant greed that Gameloft's parent company Vivendi has demonstrated over the years.

Best examples being that $4000 GTA Spano and that recent $100 Apollo IE sale. Not to mention the multi-thousand Token loot boxes that they call Pro Kits. In some cases spending money to get Tokens for boxes that you never have any guarantee of what's inside?

Some of the things they sell are at such unreasonable prices, and Vivendi's core business plan is to get as much money out of all of us as possible, while meantime the game's quality is suffering.

My hard-earned money would only be helping the fat-cats and the share-holders at the top much more than it would be helping the developers with families to feed or myself.

I'm not saying don't support them, it's what keeps the game running and alive, but if I'm going to pay for a product that can be taken away from me at any time with nothing left at all to show for it ... that's the part I can't agree with