Talk:TVR Sagaris Special Edition (Research & Development)/@comment-34600274-20190203211200

It has come to my attention that Gameloft intends to make some significant changes to Asphalt 8 within the next few weeks that will directly affect gameplay as well as the value of game assets. What the exact extent of these changes are remain unknown to us at this time, aside from a less-than-adequate announcement that they are definitely on the way. Will it be another fiasco like MP 2.0? Who knows, but it will likely be something that's not very desirable regardless of how they may attempt to spin the details to us.

Without a solid understanding of what these changes to the game are and how they'll affect MP, I'll be skipping this R&D. Although most everyone is upset with the specifics of this one particular R&D, I think that a more meaningful protest would be to boycott the entire Asphalt series of games until Gameloft provides some transparency with their direction for Asphalt 8, as well as provides us with adequate notice and explanation of how these changes will impact our past progress and financial investments in the game -- *PRIOR* to rolling them out.

Whilst it's completely within the right for Gameloft to monetize their properties as they see fit, it's another thing to make wide-sweeping, retroactive changes to the framework of a game that players have accepted as the basis for investing their time and money during the past 5 years. It would be akin to a supernatural force completely rewriting the laws of nature so that our prior understanding of it no longer applies anymore. In other words, what Gameloft will essentially be committing with the upcoming update is a bait-and-switch, and that alone is enough for me to finally be done with Gameloft and all of their shenanigans.