Talk:SCG 003S (Championship)/@comment-34600274-20180927001439

Based on how inconsistent the user experience has been since the launch of the 5th Anniversary Update, I'm starting to get the impression that GL is winding down A8. The A8 server problems, the inconsistent level of difficulty in recent Championships versus R&Ds, and the noticeable reduction in multiplayer TLEs has me thinking that GL has either moved the remaining A8 staff over to A9 or laid them off. I don't think that GL even knows that they're trolling because it appears that they haven't played the game since launching the latest update! (TBH, it really does feel as though the A8 cubicles are at the mercy of some forgotten pet monkeys that are just pounding away on vacated keyboards, and fielding Customer Support questions at random by punching macro keys that were pre-programmed with responses from months earlier.)

I don't know why Damon D.R. left A8, but maybe he revealed an important point about it -- there is no point anymore. There's nowhere to go from A8 because GL chose to completely shut the door on it when they built A9. Should I invest 15 V8s on a Championship that's 5-7 days too short based on a 3-hour tire refill rate? No one at GL cares about the current A8 experience because they only see it as a drain on resources. That leaves me to the final conclusion that tokens from this Championship are essentially as meaningless as earning this collector car. Collect cars or collect tokens? It's the same thing now.