Everything Wrong With Asphalt 8

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To express my discontent for Asphalt 8, I have sent an email to the heads of the Gameloft HQ to try and get the game fixed completely and fix all of the faults (which there are many MAJOR faults) that plague the game. The letter is here in the gallery below.

This is what I have for what is wrong with Asphalt 8. Please take the time to read it, I would like more community feedback to find more faults within the game to make this game the best it can possibly be. Discuss away!

EDIT: To contrast with a previous game, Asphalt 7, I made a post here, describing everything that was wrong with that game.

EDIT 2: There are only TWO (and a half) things I can say are good with the game:

Pros (things that are good with the game):

New cars and expanded car list
Better graphics (at the expense of framerate)
More AI (but it isn’t always a good thing… so this is the half)

General Consensus – What EVERYONE thinks (non-racers mainly)

Credits EXTREMELY hard to earn and you get no money from any of the races
Customer support does not exist and provides no information on how to fix problems (found from reviews)
AI is generally terrible in terms of racing, whether cleanly or not
Microtransactions are required to continue doing well in the career (We spent $60 on Asphalt 8)
Fuel system for time-limited events is stupid
Cars are WAY too hard to get in terms of money grinding
Cars released in earlier updates become noncompetitive in a couple of months at most
Boosters are insanely overpriced and stupid and are pretty much required to stay at the front of the field, making this game another idiotic grind fest again
Upgrade prices are way too high
In-app purchases are required to get anywhere in the game with any reasonable amount of time and they are insanely expensive
Time-limited event rewards are really only entitled to the people who have the most OP cars for that time period
Multiplayer matchmaking is insanely stupid in considering the ranks of all the cars, any car that is 1595+ is immediately mixed in with other OP cars that are much faster than it
The game is too car-dependent and not driver-skill dependent anymore
Proto-Keys + Enduro invitations are sometimes eaten up by the game (as in the game will instantly wreck your car before you start the race and you get DQ'd, failing the event and your win streak)
Hackers are EVERYWHERE and ruin the Time-Limited events

Personal Opinion – I am a hardcore racer as in I do iRacing and other racing simulators and take my racing games seriously, so consider my input, this is my own opinion along with the general consensus

CARS ARE NOT BALANCED AT ALL, all the cars in a class should be balanced and all of them should have equal performance (so one may have slightly better straight line speed but worse handling, etc, etc) so that all cars in a specific class should have an equal chance of winning
Tracks are way too straightforward and do not require any skill to get around quickly
Tracks are WAY too top-speed dependent
Handling system is wonky as in the brakes do not initiate drifts sometimes
Collision system is weird and sort of doesn’t work for this game
AI incompetence in terms of racing (again)
Infected gamemode is pointless and should have been removed and replaced with something better
Too easy to wreck AI opponents and you can’t actually race them
Level 3 nitro wrecking is OP and needs to be stopped
No Adrenaline mode?
AIs must be faster and they need to upgrade their cars to your level, not more
Car acceleration is too fast for any real skill to be involved
Racing in this game in general is not fun and lacks the adrenaline-pumping aspect of the earlier games where with stock cars you actually had to work for them by trying to take different lines and such, not simply throwing credits at upgrades
There MUST be a performance cap for all of the cars to keep them balanced
Normal non-Elite cars MUST have ways of adjusting their handling so that they are actually drivable
Some cars are insanely overpowered (Mercedes Benz Biome being one of them) and must be rebalanced
Downgrading must be an option (you do not have to rebuy the parts that you downgrade from)
Touch zones for the gas and brake pedals with Manual Acceleration are waaaay too small which makes those controls unusable
Drift-accelerating is OP and needs to be balanced
Where’s the Asphalt 7 handling model that was actually fun to drive?
No sense of speed... ever

Money Vacuum – Things done just to extract money from customers

Microtransactions required to continue doing well in the career without wasting ten million years grinding
Stupidly expensive in-app purchases
Pro Kit system is pointless and useless and expensive
Token System requires many more microtransactions because currency is not convertible and requires microtransactions to get any significant amount of them
Car prices are too high and are mainly done to suck money out of people
Fuel system is stupid
R&D events are moronic and require people to buy more Proto-keys in order to complete the R&D, even if you do everything first time you cannot complete the R&D events in time without buying anything
You get no money from races
Grind fest is apparent in all aspects
Every single part of the game is a money vacuum
Tokens required to get some boosters that cannot be obtained in any way
Even with double credits cars are still too hard to get
Enduro Double Down is basically a constant grind fest in order to suck all your tokens (as in you only have one try in order to complete a string of races, which is easy, aside from the Ace Racer in the completely unresponsive Weber)
Invitations are the same money vacuum as the Proto Keys
Who the hell would participate in throwing away money to the R&D events if they’re never going to get the car anyway because there are so many challenges and you can’t actually complete it without spending insane amounts of money! (this should also belong in the WTF section) FIX THIS.
Ad spam... getting ads every race is unreasonable... any ads at all are unreasonable
VIP System... gives players an incentive to spend money to suck them into the money vacuum

WTF? - Problems that really are just stupid and game breaking

Multiplayer is TERRIBLE, as in extreme iPhone lag, the starts are chaos and half of the people are instantly wrecked at the start by people shunting them from behind, and generally the online races are not fun
Decals are RIDICULIOUSLY EXPENSIVE… 420,000 for some decal sets is insane
Car prices are just stupidly insane… anything over 200,000 is way too much for a car
Fuel system for time limited events is stupid
Why do we have to buy certain, insanely expensive cars just to get through some of the career events?! Can’t we just get them on loan for those events?
Not all tracks available for Quick Solo Race mode?
Tag Racing Season is stupid because we need to buy random vehicles that we usually cannot afford
When you lock your phone and then relaunch the game, you will have extremely wonky steering, there needs to be steering calibration
Why don’t we have 60 FPS like we did for Asphalt 6 and 7?
No adjustable amount of laps???
Not all tracks available to race in Quick Solo Race?
No hosted multiplayer sessions???
No Multiplayer tag racing?
Game feels lacking in all aspects
Ad spam is insane and must be removed... completely
What the hell is this VIP system? An incentive to spend money to spend more money! Yay!
Why are none of the Rio tracks available outside of Car Mastery???
Random people are being banned from Multiplayer for NO REASON WHATSOEVER.
Server unreliability???
Random rewards from TLEs being taken away for no reason?
Fake speeds? Why?
Community Managers on Forums do absolutely nothing (as seen in the latest update) and are just puppets giving the community false hope that their ideas are being implemented (which they are not and never will be implemented)
New broken Multiplayer system has ruined the originally bad Multiplayer system already... if it ain't broke... fix it until it is... (that's what GL is probably thinking) Read what I have to say on fixing it here!
Customer Care does absolutely nothing (again)