There are many many many other people that support boycotting EA and Firemonkeys for destroying Real Racing 3 with wait timers and huge inapps. We do not need luck. If you want to defend them go ahead. I sure the heck won't. So sad to see senior Toucharcade members defending this, but go ahead and put your feet in the sand and support your cause. That is your right.
^This^ Frankly, it's pretty easy to boycott companies that aren't offering anything I'm remotely interested in... not that I care either way. I already have everything from EA that I want, and most of the GL stuff I want, and neither are really doing much with actual games these days, instead increasingly going for the "Farmville + cars and guns" stuff, so the sales don't really mean all that much to me... Sad face. DBC
Refuse to buy any paid games and hurting their premium games sales figures because they changed a paid premium series to freemium. Ya makes sense.
For anyone who was happy that the repair timers were gone, guess what? They're back. Now calm down please...
No, you miss the point. Read my signature. That is why I am boycotting EA. This had nothing to do with freemium issue. That was Anarkitties point not mine, in her previous post. When they put in wait timers so you could not play with your car for over 8 hours unless you used inapp coins, that is why we are boycotting EA. Freemium convert is a separate issue which many others aren't happy about either.
I'm not defending anything. Hell, I've said it in the RR3 thread: I won't download the game under any circumstances and I don't need to mention that I personally find the game disgusting (oops!), but even if all of TA got together to try and boycott EA...yeah, good luck with that.
I missed this, what happened? They did finally remove the wait timers last night for a short time? Can they do this remotely, or was there an update? Dang, wish they would be gone for good.
Well, I have seen numerous loverz like Jbruu turn to haterz of this game in a couple of hours. So I don't really think that is the case. If they liked the game, they would be posting here more. Even the old Dead Trigger thread had a TON of supporters, true it had a lot of haterz too, but this Real Racing 3 is totally different. Out of 100 pages on the first day, there was probably about 1 pages of loverz posts, 99 pages of haterz posts. Makes Dead Trigger look tame by comparison, and there are 4 threads about this game as of last night, and all of them were basically changed into haterz threads. My beef is not with the freemium model, even though of course I don't really like it. Mostly it is with the wait timers. There is absolutely no purpose for them except to force you to buy inapp coins to bypass them. You think real racing means waiting for repairs and oil changes? Real sure, fun, heck no. So I am not concerned about the freemium model as much as others here. However, what I am pissed off about is that they took one of my favorite racing series on ios, and destroyed it in the name of greed. Utterly destroyed such a good thing. So sad.
Seriously, shut the F**K up if you're not posting about the EA sale. Next complaint about freemium/boycotting will be deleted from this thread. You guys have already put that same shit in too many threads around here.
This is probably the least informative thread in the "Price Drops, Must-Have Freebies, and Deals" forum. There's not a single link provided. Isn't that sort of a requirement of posts in this forum? And, of course, it's devolved into another "EA-Is-The-Devil" pissing match that is becoming so common around here.
I haven't read this thread. At all. i just wanted to leave some copypasta from Appscore, because their experience with this games' freemium model seems to be the opposite of Eli's: "Real Racing 3 has turned into a free to play game, unlike the previous games. This is as expected a terrible decision. It completely ruins the game. Picture this, you have just won a race and are about to race in the final, but you cant because you have to wait 40 minutes for your car to repair itself or fork out the hefty in app purchase price. Why EA have chosen this approach baffles me. People in the past were more than happy to fork out prices like $10 for this quality of game." http://lowdownmag.com/real-racing-3/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews
My beef with freemium, in general, is that it's usually a sucker's game. The designers study analytics, have meetings with marketing, etc. until they come up with a formula which lets you THINK you can play without paying UNTIL you've put in a valuable amount of your time. Then, the wait times/prices usually become unmanageable without paying...but not until AFTER you've sunk a significant amount of time into a game. At least that's what the companies with enough cash/competence do. That's why I never trust EARLY positive reviews of freemium games. You haven't been thwacked by freemium's hammer yet. Oh, and Dead Trigger was not a freemium game. I don't care how cheap it was, it was "paymium". And when it was paid, the cloud servers didn't work.
To be really, really honest, the approach EA has taken to this game is the complete opposite. Really hard to start off and you keep on waiting when you only have one car. Most people will drop off here itself. You are basically forced to pay to continue RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING! But when you have invested enough time in the game, waiting becomes inconsequential. So the freemium model here is like an inverted triangle. Weird really. I'd love to hear some reasoning from Firemonkeys if possible.
Yeah, sorry, I was using Pulse News. Can't make it clicky, I'm on my iPad and don't know the string. http://lowdownmag.com/real-racing-3/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews
Well, the question would be had that 100 pages of haters actually played the game for any period of time to actually be in a position to make that judgement? In such a very limited market release and such a very short period of time? The likelihood would be no as the release thread filled up with haters a lot faster than just about everybody on here had time to go off, create a NZ account, play it for a while and then post an informed conclusion. I think you'll find if you go to the actual thread that has genuine game impressions, the debate is a bit more balanced with quite a bit of softening on the issue from actual players. Many conclusions were posted. The majority were not well informed ones. They were simply ragers on the premium model. Hence the creation of this thread, the title of it is very accurate. The number of actual game impressions is very slim picking indeed. Hate away on ea, freemium, timers, Firemonkeys, anything anybody feels an urge to really, but at least try to make an actually informed decision or contribution. Not a knee jerk reaction to a particular pricing model and publisher. And of course ignore the simplest, most obvious fact. A soft launch does not constitute a final international release build. Now people can agree/disagree all they want as to whether that constitutes a beta or not, but everybody in the industry or that knows anything about the industry, knows that kind of limited market release is designed to test out elements of the product. And a testing phase by its very nature is not final. In other words, maybe just wait until its actually final. Or just choose to behave like all those who hated on Madfinger and Dead Trigger all along. Whatever, the choice is yours Mr. President. Of course, I'm perfectly aware that this post is just as pointless as the numerous posts I made supporting Madfinger, so I'll just ignore it from now on but I'll leave on the point that the mob mentality does not display intellect and a knee jerk rage relation is not an informed conclusion. Neither will really be taken seriously by those who like to consider the reality of a situation before making a conclusion.
