Great and close to perfect

Everything is good down to events and campaign levels. 1) Events (at least the big ones) are controlled by who ever spends the most money. i agree if you spend $50 you should have an edge, but why can’t we get more than 1 common pack to start😂. you basically have to spend money unless you are stacking gold. 2) Campaign levels are great and even replaying them getting the loot out of them is enjoyable. they should either reset with different cars to earn, reset and be harder levels, or have a new set of 10 locations in different cities. i only have 2 cities left to get loot out of and my playtime on this game will likely go down with how the next campaign goes. getting that currency is grueling when you don’t have good event lineups. Anything other than those are opinions like i think garage inventory should be infinite and cash should easier to come around. my cars are getting fused cause of extra cars but cannot upgrade very fast. once upgrades slow down i cannot fuse with extra cars and progress is much slower.

Major update has ruined my game

The new update has only seemed to have brought 1 or 2 good things here and there, yet everything else has been bad. First of all, they switched a ton of the cars that were decent from the green and blue ranks up to yellows and reds. Not only do you lose all the work and upgrades you put into your cars that move up a rank, the tens and thousands of dollars (game dollars) of work, the hours and hours of playing, and take it away, not even changing anything but a few cars stats ( there weren’t even that many cars that actually had a stat change), but the only compensation they give you is just some measly upgrades for the mediocre cars that are left in the previous rank. For example, I had an off road rally car, previously yellow rank, and moved up to red. Literally one point up, from 49 to 50. Nothing was changed about the stats of the car, just moved up one single point. Not only did all the work I’ve put into that car get taken away by making it stock once more, but all they give me is upgrades for the yellow cars, even though the only few I care about already have been maxed out. I would’ve loved if I could’ve had a warning to this, so I could actually prepare for top drives to take all my stuff, and I wouldn’t spend all my in game cash right before they take it away. The least they could’ve done is keep the upgrades on the cars that moved up ranks. Especially the ones that weren’t even changed stat-wise

Too Much Time

The game itself is exactly as advertised. You can race to win more cars, open packs, upgrade cars, etc. It was fantastic when this is how the game worked. Now, you’re *REQUIRED* to spend either ample amounts of time or small amounts of money just to win one event. Before, I’d get on the game, check the current events, get in my 5 races for that event and get offline. Well, if you do that now, you will stay in the lowest rank, which will also decrease your rep by 10 per event. My tickets do not refresh for over an hour, so I can’t continuously grind out my races to make it to one of the top spots. I could go 15-0, have more points than anyone else, and I will still be ranked 50th because I didn’t run *THIRTY* races in 24-48h. The expectations are quite high if you want anything decent in the game and it will take you much longer than before. I have played for a few years now and I only have 4 or 5 S class cars, so getting the exact one you want is almost guaranteed to never happen. And again, it will take even longer than those few years to get the exact same results. I have spent a little bit of money on the game as well but never anything above $20. I would say this last update pushed the game from almost P2W to fully P2W. No one has the time for 30 races in a day to get first place.

Roadblock

This game is really fun. It is an interesting and new spin on racing games, and for the most part, the card system works well. The problem is that I don’t have time to grind out and get all of the rewards from every level, and I don’t think I’m alone when it comes to that issue. Another thing is that the final boss in Monaco, a race I would expect to be difficult, is impossible with the cars I have been given. Since it is all about luck in what cars you get, my garage contains 1 epic car, and four ultra rares, as my best five cars, four of which I believe are from previous campaign areas. There either needs to be another advanced game mode where you can get better cars withot spending stupid amounts of money, because I get mostly destroyed in PvP, and I am absolutely stumped by the final level. Great game, but now I’ve hit a point where I can no longer progress, giving me little to no reason to keep playing this game. I really hope you guys (Hutch) have a big update planned, because I am very close to giving up. Update: Put of sheer frustration, I sold all of my cars, spent the money on ceramic packs (around 10 total) got 0 ultra rares and proceeded to get rid of all of my cars and all of my money. This game is evil and 100% pay to win. I spent no real money and I am very glad that I didn’t. Screw this game, and I will never play it again unless for some stupid reason Hutch decides to reach out to me. Good day, and do not download this game

Playing and paying for 6 months

Well I have put in over $2,000 into the game and even after being rewarded 800k gold(Literally $8,000 worth of game credits!!!!), the game is not worth the money. The issues I have had with lost cars and even before hutch gave me 800k gold, has made bring the rating down to 1 star from 5. After about 8 months of playing Top Drives, it has come to simply being a game that is played over years and aimed at grabbing cash from players. Even with thousands of dollars and years of playing(I have played the game since it first game to the market on other devices/files), it is a game designed without an end. The game itself is good but not worth the money as it takes literally thousands of dollars and or years of playing to have the better or best cars. With this being said, it is only a cash grab. Players will not have anything beyond the short story mode. Anyone like me who has spent over $1,000 let alone several hundred will not be competitive online against developers who add any car into their game files or rich people. With everything I have it would still take years to collect and upgrade more than half the cars in my current garage with out money. The game is excellent, the game play, collection of cars, servers but the game is meaningless to play without money. Completely meaningless.

PAY TO WIN

This is a cool game and all but boy if you don’t plan on spending money, DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS GAME. I had 2 epic performance and 3 ultra rares from at least a year of playing. I get bored one day and I have a little cash in the game so I buy a ceramic pack ($5.00) if you don’t have in game currency and I can’t even get an ultra rare, but yay a super rare which sells for 2,500 credits. By the way you can’t even buy a plastic (lowest cars) set of cards for that. Then I got frustrated by the game, sold all my cars including an Aston Martin V12 vantage, and Bentley continental gt and the rest of my cars in return for about 8 ceramic packs. Not one ultra or super rare from any of these 8 packs. To be honest I’ve probably got the worst cars I’ve ever pulled, basically what I’m saying is THIS GAME IS A RIP OFF AND ITS NOT WORTH YOUR TIME. You’ll feel like your getting there at the start then boom. To complete this race your gonna need to spend $15 if you wanna get anything over a super rare then ya buy it and get complete trash. Developers are wayyy to money hungry and I hope they see this so they can at least put into consideration about how money hungry and how pay to win there game is. It doesent matter if they give me all the cars in the game, I will never and I repeat never redownload or play this game again.

Restart Game

I love everything about this game except for one thing. You can’t have multiple saves of the game which is kind of annoying especially since after you complete the initial campaign the game gets grindy or you have to spend a lot of money. Sometimes I wish I could start the game over again from the beginning but I can’t even delete my current save. Edit: After playing for longer, I have to drop my review of the game. After the most recent update, something happened where I can’t compete with those i'm put in events with. It’s weird but the only way I can make money or do anything is to do challenges. I also do not like how the trophy system works. It throws you out there with the 80,000+ trophy players making it impossible to ever compete when you hit the 5000 mark. In the year since reaching 5000 I haven’t gotten above about 5100 trophies before losing a lot of events and having it send me to 5000. This makes it impossible to win events and has you barely getting above 30th in an event of 100 if you are lucky. I have no doubt that a lot of other players problems in these reviews are about being uncompetitive have to do with this trophy system.

Flawed excellence

I love this game, as a serious car nerd it pushes all my buttons and is an excellent and engaging game. HOWEVER, there are some problems. Like many mobile games it is P2W, and the F2P content is laughably limited. Each week there are events you can compete in against other players (fun!) that require you to have specific types of cars with certain attributes in order to be competitive, and the best cars in the game are only available by winning these sorts of events. Over the course of the past month I spent $700 or more on card packs in an attempt to get a competitive lineup and win one of these prize cars and I frankly am nowhere near the top ten slots who will get the prize car. That’s not a sustainable model in my humble opinion. I will continue to play but i am not wasting anymore money on it, I wish I’d spent that on a PS5, which would bring much more lasting enjoyment. I get that developers like Hutch need to make money but this is out of control. Since I won’t be buying anymore packs I suspect that my ability to compete will wane, as will my interest in the game. If Hutch cares about their player community they would make more single player content that doesn’t require massive spending to enjoy.

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