There is a special place in hell for…
There is a special place in hell for the mid-level and top-level managers at EA games who are responsible for designing their "business scheme" based on extorting gamers for the maximum amount of cash and to scam their customers by defining obscure rules and intentional confusion. Real Racing 3 for smartphones is one of those examples which basically consists of "bait & switch" tactics, claiming that "it is completely free to play" while in essence it is a scam game where it's IMPOSSIBLE for free players to EVER acquire some of the cars available nor to complete the entire game without having to dish up with loads of real cash in order to buy their "Gold"-scam, which is nothing more than a secondary way of extorting players to pay for cars, upgrades, repairs etc. aside from the existing "free points", which are accumulated via races etc. So even IF you earn enough free points, you'll NEVER have enough "Gold" (which you need and won't get unless you spend REAL money) to finish the entire game. There are almost 27500 races to be raced and after playing for almost 2 years with a total count of more than 36 DAYS(!) of combined playtime, not even a FIFTH of the game has been raced. In other words, even if you'd be able to play the entire game ONLY on free points and without "Gold" (which is impossible as mentioned earlier), you'd have to play over the course of 8-10 YEARS at that pace in order to even come close to finishing the entire game - which is utterly and completely INSANE. On top of that, I got FULLY developed cars (why would cars even have to be developed before you race them?) and YET, there are races in "Exclusive Series" which you CANNOT win no matter what you do as bot cars overtake and outpace you every - single - time. An intentional scamming and defrauding of their player base. Add to that an the insane amount of splash screens and "offers" of watching ads for "Gold" after each race that you have to tap through thousands of times again and again and again and you get a junk game and experience. Needless to say, that the player base apparently finally got so ticked off about these conditions, that they lately deserted the game in droves so EA had to announce the "tough decision" to shut down on March 20th. But since those players invested zillions of REAL cash into this garbage game in order to develop and buy cars over a long period of time, which are now essentially worthless, they are now naturally even more ticked off since they get no say in this outcome and ended up with zero value for their money. EA could have saved the day by announcing all cars to be a free-for-all, but of course EA being EA, they only gave each player 1000 Gold for their time, investment and for being loyal customers and players! The greed of American companies such as EA as usual knows no limits and to - on top of it all - spit in the face of their player base as a sort of "thank you" obviously is part of their "service" and greedy agenda. Same goes for games as for instance BF1 & BF5 etc. An INSANE amount of regular hackers, scammers, hacking script kiddies, teenager scum and other human feces is constantly messing up gameplay all while having a big lip when being called out. Does EA do anything about it so players who paid good cash for these games get value for money? Short answer - of course not. Half-baked attempts of implementing some sort of second-grade anti-cheat software are yielding little to no results and WHY oh WHY would EA spend some of their hundreds of millions in revenue on providing their customers with actual value, when they can f them over without any real consequences? Alas, be warned NOT to buy any of this company's crap or you are on your own! You have been warned...!