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Anonymous
10 years ago

Play to win or PAY to win?!?

Just when you think it's possible to collect SE car BP's on replays, your hopes go up in flames when you realize it's all a tease and another trick by EA to burn fuel on pointless replays and tempt you to spend gold on the unflipped mystery reward card holding your much wanted SE BP!

In the last 18 replays allocated to the Skyline BNR34, I've bagged an earth shattering ONE blueprint... a complete waste of my time and another nail in the irritation coffin. Not much different on the Razor replays. Statistically I should have received at least 3 BP's from 18 replays (1:5 chance... which are pathetic odds given we only get 2 days of replays), but behold, only one lowly BP gained.

I've collected a total of 6 BNR34 blueprints over the last few days, 5 of which I got from buying PLENTY of Classic Crate batches of 5... costing about $500k, depleting in game cash for installing parts to tempt me into spending more gold on replays so I buy more gold. That's the strategy which I refuse to give in to on principle.

NFSNL is becoming more and more of a rigged slot machine for blinded gamblers, than a game that rewards players with progress through game play, skill and effort. Success depends on how willing you are to empty your wallet, than how committed you are to mastering the game. It's a Pay to Win game, not a Play to Win game.

Everywhere you look there's another tease without the reward.

I really don't have a problem paying for a good game, because a huge investment goes into developing these games for our enjoyment. As long as it's a fair exchange, I'm 'game'. I won't however pay ridiculous amounts of money to just be coerced into spending more money. That's a win lose equation and while a few people might be dumb enough to fall for the temptation, game developers who use this strategy are missing out on the largest cash cow of all, which is the majority of the market who are looking for a fair and reasonable deal.

What a pity... NFSNL has so much potential. It's a visual feast for petrol-heads with a clever reward system to keep you engaged, but after a while you can no longer ignore the greedy hand that keeps trying to surreptitiously slip into your back pocket.

6 Replies

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago
    Nicely said. I agree 100%, i have nothing against paying a fair amount for a good game, but this sucks.
    It's probably just a matter of time until I will get frustrated enough and delete the game.
    EA was a great company, but that was long long time ago. Now it's one of the worst.
  • HeretikJirka's avatar
    HeretikJirka
    9 years ago

    Well, I find nothing wrong with ppl/companies trying to make money out of making games. Its just that normally it won't be my money ;-)

    If the game is unplayable without paying, I don't play it. NFS NL is not the case.

    If the game is good, I may consider paying some amout to "thank" developers (well, maybe producers more than anyone else). Such a payment (or payments in total over a long run) will not be higher than a price of similar commercial game. Ever. If they get greedy, they won't get a dime off me.

    Speaking just of NFS NL, the only reasonable payment in my eyes is Monthly golden card and maybe sometimes some special action offers (never bought one, though). It supplies you with enough gold to pick some of the good cards, SE blueprints or whatever else.

  • Chizou2023's avatar
    Chizou2023
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago

    No, EA isn't bad, EA only just publish games, Firemonkeys is the one who is the worst since they created the game, not EA. But I still hate this game, at least I feel better now cause I play NFS Heat.

  • Chizou2023's avatar
    Chizou2023
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago

    Well, yes. Companies make pay to win games for money, they are not greedy at all. But I mean why this game is full of itself that wants all the money? I would actually say "make it fun playing game" like Heat, 2015, and Payback, although this game is pay to win. But no, it sooooo boring they did not put like cool cop chases that will make you not stop playing, and etc. Other racing games are fun to play but this is like nonsense at all. Race tracks soooo small, takes only like 20-30 seconds only to finish.

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