{"id":7376,"date":"2013-02-25T22:21:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T22:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=7376"},"modified":"2013-02-25T22:21:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T22:21:35","slug":"all-the-cars-are-available-for-a-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/02\/all-the-cars-are-available-for-a-price\/","title":{"rendered":"All the cars are available&#8230; for a price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normally when you buy a console game you expect to get the whole game. Not for EA&#8217;s latest version of Real Racing. While you can technically play through every race, win all the events, and receive all the cars, that&#8217;s going to take you either a lot of grinding, or a lot of dollars.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our numbers show that it would take over 472 hours to earn enough money to buy all of the cars in the game,&#8221; details 148Apps.com founder and regular PocketGamer.biz contributor Jeff Scott.\u00a0Or to purchase all of the cars with real money via in-app purchase, it would cost $503.22 at the current best rate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I still can&#8217;t work out if this is longevity at play, a cunning plan to get players to focus on the car they want, or a way to grab as many dollars as possible from the ADHD affected gamer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally when you buy a console game you expect to get the whole game. Not for EA&#8217;s latest version of Real Racing. While you can technically play through every race, win all the events, and receive all the cars, that&#8217;s going to take you either a lot of grinding, or a lot of dollars. Our numbers show that it would take over 472 hours to earn enough money to buy all of the cars in the game,&#8221; details 148Apps.com founder and regular PocketGamer.biz contributor Jeff Scott.\u00a0Or to purchase all of the cars with real money via in-app purchase, it would<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[23,25],"tags":[160,4233,1773,4232,4234,4235],"class_list":["post-7376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-link-log","tag-ea","tag-expensive","tag-freemium","tag-nfs","tag-price-gouging","tag-real-racing","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1UY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}