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On March 31st, 2019 – Rivals will be racing off into the sunset, and will be permanently shut down. Current players have until this date to utilize any accumulated virtual currency. We’ll be offering some massive reductions in the cost of crates, installs and repairs in addition to a reduction on timers as you race your way into the history books. Effective immediately, no new in-app purchases will be permitted.
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Why are they vaulting cars?
james614
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Just saw that the 2005 STI is going to be vaulted soon. Just wondering what the reasoning is for vaulting cars. Is it a balance issue? Licensing? Common sense dictates that you'd try to avoid removing cars/tracks/characters/etc at all costs unless they prove to be a problem for gameplay. And even then re-balancing is preferable to just removing them altogether.
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Honestly, I think it's a rubbish tactic, considering we're dealing with digital products that are infinitely available, but hey, it's mobile gaming, this is nothing new.
(What's really funny is that the last vaulted car, the Buick GNX, is going for $30 on ebay, even though not even an S2K RE is worth that much. Lmfao.)
We've added 26 new cars since July. Each WWE car is a new car,, Yes they are the same "model" as ones in the game, but each one is a new car.
Not counting those, we've added 5 new Turf Cars as well as the Agera and the Mercedes with more to come.
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There are a number of different reasons for us vaulting cars.
1. We want the number of cars that are available for purchase (via showroom and the crates) to remain a certain size.
2. Increases the value of these cars. They will, over time, be considered more rare because there are no new ways to obtain them,
3. Increases the desirability for a short time before vaulting.
While I won't say for sure whether or not any vaulted car will be available in the future. For now, any car we vault will be in there for quite some time.
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