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.
United Racers: We Demand Fair Compensation for Our Losses! Do the right thing!
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“As far as compensation goes, neither Foxx nor I have the clearance to award flat gem values in the amounts you're asking for. Entertaining the idea any further would be a wasted effort on all our parts.”
Oh okay. You know what I read when you posted that? I read, ‘CIE will not take responsibility for the thousands of wrongfully lost cars/money. Entertaining the idea any further would be a wasted effort on all of our parts.’ I don’t know who really runs this, if it’s you, Foxx, or someone even higher up, but that is just wrong.
You are rehashing the same points you have already posted. You said you’re not rich, okay well guess what? We aren’t either. We don’t have money to replace these cars over and over and over again. You got family? Well guess what, we have families too. I know plenty of mothers and fathers who sink a lot into this game.
We could spend our time and hard earned money literally a million different places. That 50 dollars we give you per week for turf war? That could be another toy for our kids, going out with our significant others, or that could be a credit card bill paid down. Or that could go toward saving up for a REAL race car. But, we choose to give you guys that money. We choose to go to jobs we may hate, bust our freaking tails at said jobs, and share some of that money with you. You're not telling us to or making us, we don't have to; we choose to.
This is why it is important that you properly compensate us when that hard earned money is lost. However, I feel like this will be a repeat of last time when we had a ‘reward’ for all the issues. $2 worth of gems and slow car.
Here’s one more point I will touch on…
You said only 3 percent of users pay you a dime, right? Foxx said you have 80,000 users. Three percent of 80,000 is 2400. There’s 200 users on this list who feel like you have not/will not taken care of them, and won’t support you until you do. Are you sure you’re okay with close to 10% of your paying customers no longer paying?
Think about these things when you’re deciding what your ‘reward’ will be.
-Shin
I mean, that's what people like Razoor112 and a few on Facebook who are against us say. We are being too pushy and need to leave CIE alone!
If CIE doesn't want to give people back their stuff, then they have every right to call Apple for a refund. If CIE DID THE RIGHT THING, we wouldn't HAVE this problem, but it seems they don't want to do that.