Need for Speed™ Unbound Y2 ROADMAP

I don’t know if anyone from the dev team reads any replies here. If they do, I cannot stress enough how much you need to listen to what I have to say. Having seen your just announced roadmap for the year, I cannot help but feel truly baffled by it. Why? Because you’re not addressing any of the biggest issues with the game. Issues that will make any continued support for the game an honest to god waste of everyone’s time. You need to address 2 things before you start adding new content. The first thing, change matchmaking. I don’t know who thought it was a good idea to make it so you can only race against the other 15 people in an open world lobby, but that person should be fired and it should have been immediately abandoned and replaced with a more traditional matchmaking system. If any of you have played the game since it’s release then you’ll know that besides the first week or two after launch and some of the Volume updates, hardly anyone joins races. And that’s not surprising, even for full lobby’s, because with 15 people there’s any number of activities or reasons preventing them from joining. They don’t want to do that tier, they’re customizing a car, they’re participating in an open world activity, they just want to drive around the city, they’re afk and not even playing, etc. I know making this change must be a massive effort, but you chose to ship the game this way and it needs to be changed. The second issue, car balance. You have over 100 cars, yet the majority of those are honestly useless in most races because of how unbalanced they are. Every tier has a few cars that clearly excel over the rest. That not only discourages variety, it tells the player not to engage with most of your car content since they’re almost guaranteed to lose with a number of them. And when you pair the awful balance issues with the matchmaking, you get a boring experience where you’re facing against maybe a few people and you’re almost always forced to use the broken meta cars or be beat by them. I like Unbound, despite other criticism I have for it. There’s a lack of arcade racers out there and this is currently the only one I actually enjoy to a degree. I’d love to get more content and have a reason to keep playing for another year. But without both of these issues being addressed I cannot find any reason to play this game ever again. It’s honestly insulting that you want to talk about a premium race pass in your roadmap when you show no signs of addressing the real issues that have ruined your game. I don’t have an issue paying for new content, but besides the fact that none of your previous race passes had much worthwhile content I’d even want to pay for, I couldn’t imagine giving you more money for a game that is actively fighting itself and discouraging anyone from playing it.