Real Racing 3

DAIR · 14 Feb 2013 at 12:35

Reviews seem to be extremely good for this title.

Anyone played it?

Worth getting an Ipad for?!?!?!

Pottsey · 14 Feb 2013 at 12:48

I heard it was really bad in that everything was time locked. 6 hours to wait for a car service or pay $1.

DAIR · 14 Feb 2013 at 12:50

Not cool... Reminds me of that Drag racing game (cant remember the name of it)

Nismo · 14 Feb 2013 at 14:53

DAIR said:
Worth getting an Ipad for?!?!?!

LULWUT

Shamikebab · 14 Feb 2013 at 15:47

Not a console game :confused:

Matteysan · 14 Feb 2013 at 15:49

Awful game apparently

However, where EA has simply gone over the top is the wait times associated with “servicing” the cars. No matter how well you drive, you have got to service your car. And this happens frequently. Or else you suffer drastic performance reductions.

Now, take a deep breath. I have played Real Racing 3 for about one and a half hours now, and for the first batch of repairs and service (I decided to do them together), it took me around 2 hours 15 minutes. And a full 2 hours of that time came from servicing the car.

Take an even deeper breath now, please. 30 minutes of playtime or so later, I had to send it in for another round of servicing and repairs. This time, the wait time increased to a whopping 6 hours 30 minutes!!! And again 6 hours of it came from servicing alone, something which you have little control over.

The servicing part shouldn’t need to be in the game at all. There is a clear reason why it is there – to fill the pockets of the guys at EA. Worse still is that you can fast-forward all these with gold coins, but the gold coins are so expensive to purchase it is just not worth it. To skip two minutes, you need 2 gold coins. And you can buy 20 of those for $1.99. 6 hours of wait time meanwhile will require around 20 gold coins ($1.99). Imagine doing this after every few races. You’d grow bankrupt sooner rather than later!

To get around that you have to buy gold coins to spend to speed it up. Can't link to the source because it has swearies but just search droid gamers

I guess they need to make money because it is a free game but why they just don't make it a paid game to begin with I'll never know!

DAIR · 15 Feb 2013 at 07:41

That is ridiculous.

I hope this extreme pay as you play concept never makes its way onto consoles.