I have had enough.
The latest challenged in NFS:NL is to win a Nissan 180SX Type X by completing a series of races over five days. I find that that outcome is impossible solely by winning races and purchasing materials to place in parts by using credits won in the games. To achieve a high enough rating in the vehicle (543PR), the only option is to purchase parts and materials with the in-game gold.
Looking at the available purchases in the Fastlane Store at the time of this writing, only 1 item can be purchased with credits. The other 7 items can only be obtained with gold. Don’t have enough gold? More can be purchased through the game with a real-life credit card.
I have had enough.
I have played the game for about a year and had enjoyed the struggle to develop the vehicles that came with NFS or that I had won through racing, but something changed with recent updates. Materials became harder to get. Extra challenges became impossible without throwing real money down a bottomless virtual pit. The joy of game play was replaced with EA’s seemingly rampant and rapacious greed.
I have had enough.
After I post this, I will be deleting the game from my iPad and then from my harddrive. I know that I am one lonely and solitary voice yelling out against the moneyed and gluttonous machine that is EA, but this voice will speak out instead of doing nothing in the hopes that evil doesn’t completely triumph.
As the corpulent and bloated conglomerate wallows in the money flatulated at them by a hoodwinked populace easily separated from their actual hard earned cash, I will find something better to do.
I have had enough.