Talk:Research & Development/GT by CITROEN/@comment-173.28.119.254-20161107230405/@comment-27646579-20161108191004

Its obvious their intent is for you to buy tokens. They deplete your grind-gained tokens and credits over the course of the R&D and they throw a near-impossible reace at the end when you're screwed that might get you to buy tokens. I'm sure they have formulas to predict how many free players will leave the game and how that might affect the multiplayer experience for paid players vs. how many tokens people will buy because of this strategy and they have decided it is worth it. This is a hell of a lot more entertaining than Farmville and similar mindless life-sucks, so GL will continue to be greedy aholes and do just fine. Losing 5% of free players till they come crawling back is worth selling a few thousand token packs. I'm not saying I don't hate them, because I really truly do, but I have no viable good mobile game alternative. In the interim I'll just live with my decision not to give them a dime and the associated occasional R&D loss. Hopefully I'll have grinded enough tokens before the next time this R&D comes around to buy my way past 4.48 and get the car; should be easier to blow through the rest of the races since it'll be almost fully upgraded this when I start the R&D next time around.