Over the course of the last five years, Racing Rivals has grown into one of the most hardcore racing games in the world. This loyal community has spent countless hours competing in millions of races in “winner take all” fashion – all in the name of Turf Wars and pink slips.
However, all good things must come to an end… After spending time evaluating Rivals and its future – we’ve decided that it’s time to move on. Simply put, the revenue generated from Racing Rivals unfortunately no longer covers the cost of operations. This was not an easy decision to make.
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.
In closing, a resounding and sincere THANK YOU to our extremely driven fans for your loyalty and dedication over the years – we hope you’ve enjoyed playing Racing Rivals as much as we’ve enjoyed creating it.
However, all good things must come to an end… After spending time evaluating Rivals and its future – we’ve decided that it’s time to move on. Simply put, the revenue generated from Racing Rivals unfortunately no longer covers the cost of operations. This was not an easy decision to make.
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.
In closing, a resounding and sincere THANK YOU to our extremely driven fans for your loyalty and dedication over the years – we hope you’ve enjoyed playing Racing Rivals as much as we’ve enjoyed creating it.
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Statement In Regards To 'Josh Gordon' aka Matt Glass
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[FONT=verdana, geneva, sans-serif]I am starting from the beginning with hopes of it being the ended after this. Many months ago I decided to try and create another popular Facebook based Racing Rivals group. I dreamed of mostly the active 'unsupported trades' players would join for the extra buy/sell outlet it would create and by me posting up tunes it would help draw in the newer players who can learn from us experienced and legit community members through our tunes and maybe our 'Turf Tuned' cars which could be bought. [/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, geneva, sans-serif]When I pitched the idea to my peers it seemed like an instant hit. I started collecting e-mail addresses and IGNs from all the legit, longstanding members. My plan was to start with a base of the most legit and active members of these forums and then branch out through 'vouches' - actual vouches not just we traded once vouchers. But perhaps I was not moving fast enough even though I try my best despite having to take care of my paraplegic father.[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, geneva, sans-serif]One member in particular whom I never spoke with nor ever dealt with before PM'ed me asking if he could become an admin for my fastly expanding group. It was very awesome to see older Turf Wars teammates finding me on Facebook so we could re-connect. Others would supply tunes for whose asking for them before I could even get around to it myself. However it was this one person (few) who was the bad apple of the bunch.[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, geneva, sans-serif]Not only did he advertise his 'other page' on my post on the forums but he then decided to rally the hand picked members that I specifically wanted to be the base of my group and move them all to his. This really set me off when I seen everyone jumping ship because I wasn't fast enough to verify Facebook accounts and search IGNs through Scammer Lists. Eventually I was fed up and I decided to scrap the project for another one.[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, geneva, sans-serif]Once I was happy with the community and how it would have potentially ran I had the idea of also posting my Turf-Wars styled tunes to the same buy/sell Facebook group that I was working on. So instead I came up with the idea of $1m membership fee to separate the newer players from the intermediate/advanced players who take the game more seriously (spending money just like myself) to potentially win prize cars.[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, geneva, sans-serif]Every single person was removed in order to 'delete' the failed Facebook group. Many people seemed very unhappy with me that I did this but it was the only way to close the group completely without having to remove all the old content that would not make sense with my Lobby Built Tunes Only group. To make matters even worse, I was tipped off by one of my closer friends on Racing Rivals about a plot by Matt Glass to have the whole group of racers that he stole from my group to each chip in some cash in order for a single member to join and pay the $1m membership fee and then leak all my tunes to their page. Apparently this admin was nothing but power hungry and scandalous. [/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, geneva, sans-serif](Screenshot: Proof that Matt Glass was plotting against me)[/FONT]
Now that most of you are all caught up on the past history of me trying to add another dimension to the Racing Rivals community and it essentially backfiring and blowing up in my face we can now begin to talk about the current events.
It was only after I realized that Matt Glass aka (357MAG) was apparently still on my friends list on Racing Rivals did I decide to curse him out and de-friend and ignore him. After all he only ruined my first Facebook group page and turned all my members against me for absolutely no reason other than his own self promotion.
The next day I received an e-mail from someone named Josh Gordon aka (FLASH OUT) who seemed very determined to join my group. Eventually we began talking on Racing Rivals and he was trying to convince me to let him into the group for more than half price ($250k) in RRCash and after being accepted he would pay the following ($250k) if he didn't copy and paste all the posted tunes, builds, guides before I could ever get around to ask him for it.
(Screenshot: Josh Gordon giving me his IGN which came up on my scammer list/Facebook Name of someone that isn't Josh Gordon)
[FONT=verdana, geneva, sans-serif]So what did that Facebook look like you might ask? 11 friends? Last posted activity sometime around September? It has SCAMMER written all over it.
(Screenshot: Apparent Fake Facebook Profile used for scamming)[/FONT]
Most members who have played long enough and are active buyers/sellers on Facebook based Racing Rivals groups will know that any female with barely any pictures, barely any friends and the 'person' is posting RR-related posts will tell you that in no way is that person real. If they offered to pay for your car with double the RRCash would you go through with the deal? I didn't think so.
[FONT=verdana, geneva, sans-serif]To make my case even more, she/he is clearly supporting downloading and using possible malware for hacking Racing Rivals which should completely terminate their account if I have read the Terms of Service correctly.
Its quite funny how Matt Glass who does have an inactive account was online yesterday. Josh Gordon only frequents the forums when hes looking for tunes or trying to violate the Terms of Service by looking to obtain cars through PayPal. Im sure if you check their IPs, it wouldn't surprise me if they were the same person. Maybe its him or maybe it isn't but he deserved to lose the $500k after not only stealing and ruining my past group but turning my own hand selected racers against me. In the above post it clearly shows a friend warning me about what Matt Glass was planning to do however it sucks when for once it bites you back in the rear. Admins if you want to investigate further, if you can prove to me that those two accounts (FLASHOUT & 357MAG) have never dealt with each other and its just a lot of 'coincidences' then I will be more than happy to return the $500k but it seems as though not only has Matt Glass given himself up based on what I already knew but he decided to use his fake alias' (both Facebook/IGN) which he probably uses to scam - (making it more evident that him turning up on my own personal scammer list was no fluke)
If you were in my situation what would you do? Help the alleged 'hacker' or 'scam' the 'scammer' for trying to pull one on not only me but the valued members that I have developed my new group with. I hope this will be a lesson learned for those who might try and cross me with fake IGNs/Facebooks in the future.[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, geneva, sans-serif]When I pitched the idea to my peers it seemed like an instant hit. I started collecting e-mail addresses and IGNs from all the legit, longstanding members. My plan was to start with a base of the most legit and active members of these forums and then branch out through 'vouches' - actual vouches not just we traded once vouchers. But perhaps I was not moving fast enough even though I try my best despite having to take care of my paraplegic father.[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, geneva, sans-serif]One member in particular whom I never spoke with nor ever dealt with before PM'ed me asking if he could become an admin for my fastly expanding group. It was very awesome to see older Turf Wars teammates finding me on Facebook so we could re-connect. Others would supply tunes for whose asking for them before I could even get around to it myself. However it was this one person (few) who was the bad apple of the bunch.[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, geneva, sans-serif]Not only did he advertise his 'other page' on my post on the forums but he then decided to rally the hand picked members that I specifically wanted to be the base of my group and move them all to his. This really set me off when I seen everyone jumping ship because I wasn't fast enough to verify Facebook accounts and search IGNs through Scammer Lists. Eventually I was fed up and I decided to scrap the project for another one.[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, geneva, sans-serif]Once I was happy with the community and how it would have potentially ran I had the idea of also posting my Turf-Wars styled tunes to the same buy/sell Facebook group that I was working on. So instead I came up with the idea of $1m membership fee to separate the newer players from the intermediate/advanced players who take the game more seriously (spending money just like myself) to potentially win prize cars.[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, geneva, sans-serif]Every single person was removed in order to 'delete' the failed Facebook group. Many people seemed very unhappy with me that I did this but it was the only way to close the group completely without having to remove all the old content that would not make sense with my Lobby Built Tunes Only group. To make matters even worse, I was tipped off by one of my closer friends on Racing Rivals about a plot by Matt Glass to have the whole group of racers that he stole from my group to each chip in some cash in order for a single member to join and pay the $1m membership fee and then leak all my tunes to their page. Apparently this admin was nothing but power hungry and scandalous. [/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, geneva, sans-serif](Screenshot: Proof that Matt Glass was plotting against me)[/FONT]
Now that most of you are all caught up on the past history of me trying to add another dimension to the Racing Rivals community and it essentially backfiring and blowing up in my face we can now begin to talk about the current events.
It was only after I realized that Matt Glass aka (357MAG) was apparently still on my friends list on Racing Rivals did I decide to curse him out and de-friend and ignore him. After all he only ruined my first Facebook group page and turned all my members against me for absolutely no reason other than his own self promotion.
The next day I received an e-mail from someone named Josh Gordon aka (FLASH OUT) who seemed very determined to join my group. Eventually we began talking on Racing Rivals and he was trying to convince me to let him into the group for more than half price ($250k) in RRCash and after being accepted he would pay the following ($250k) if he didn't copy and paste all the posted tunes, builds, guides before I could ever get around to ask him for it.
(Screenshot: Josh Gordon giving me his IGN which came up on my scammer list/Facebook Name of someone that isn't Josh Gordon)
[FONT=verdana, geneva, sans-serif]So what did that Facebook look like you might ask? 11 friends? Last posted activity sometime around September? It has SCAMMER written all over it.
(Screenshot: Apparent Fake Facebook Profile used for scamming)[/FONT]
Most members who have played long enough and are active buyers/sellers on Facebook based Racing Rivals groups will know that any female with barely any pictures, barely any friends and the 'person' is posting RR-related posts will tell you that in no way is that person real. If they offered to pay for your car with double the RRCash would you go through with the deal? I didn't think so.
[FONT=verdana, geneva, sans-serif]To make my case even more, she/he is clearly supporting downloading and using possible malware for hacking Racing Rivals which should completely terminate their account if I have read the Terms of Service correctly.
Its quite funny how Matt Glass who does have an inactive account was online yesterday. Josh Gordon only frequents the forums when hes looking for tunes or trying to violate the Terms of Service by looking to obtain cars through PayPal. Im sure if you check their IPs, it wouldn't surprise me if they were the same person. Maybe its him or maybe it isn't but he deserved to lose the $500k after not only stealing and ruining my past group but turning my own hand selected racers against me. In the above post it clearly shows a friend warning me about what Matt Glass was planning to do however it sucks when for once it bites you back in the rear. Admins if you want to investigate further, if you can prove to me that those two accounts (FLASHOUT & 357MAG) have never dealt with each other and its just a lot of 'coincidences' then I will be more than happy to return the $500k but it seems as though not only has Matt Glass given himself up based on what I already knew but he decided to use his fake alias' (both Facebook/IGN) which he probably uses to scam - (making it more evident that him turning up on my own personal scammer list was no fluke)
If you were in my situation what would you do? Help the alleged 'hacker' or 'scam' the 'scammer' for trying to pull one on not only me but the valued members that I have developed my new group with. I hope this will be a lesson learned for those who might try and cross me with fake IGNs/Facebooks in the future.[/FONT]
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Then theres you who does business and someone asks you to vouch for them u say sure and dont voiche then after asking over and over still dont vouche tk me thats bad business saying u will do something and dont do it people like you that has me sellin my account
That's should be right