GatorDeb

36 hours. Over two and a half hours today I love this game so much. I'm STILL finding new stuff I am SO much better prepared for next Season! So I decided I'm going to use the tokens for the season unlocks, going to wait until the last day of each (they're like 2 months long) and then what I can't unlock on my own gonna finish out with tokens, I have enough tokens for 3 seasons so that's half a year. That should get me through the F2P opening. I can't wait to see what they offer up when they open it up since I benefit also. This is the only game I've ever played over a month every single day at least 10 minutes.What's funny it's that like many racers this game employs "rubberbanding" which it puts the other racers closer to you to give an artificial sense of a competition and I didn't know I could win 4 out of 5 difficulties I thought I could only win the first two. The third difficulty more times than not and the fourth now and then. No chance on the fifth but I just need higher levels on everything so eventually. But I was surprised how much better I am than I thought

GatorDeb

So they're guessing and it looks like 10 bucks per 1k tokens. I'm 7k tokens away from topping out the season, waiting for the last day. I still got xp to get so the final tally will be less. And next season I can get a lot more xp doing the daily sessions, took me a few weeks to get my bearings on the game. But worse case scenario 70 bucks and the shortest season will be six weeks so about $52.50 a month (and the token cost is purely a guess based on the season pass has been confirmed to be 1k tokens and they guess ten bucks a season it's what it's going to cost). I'm averaging 1.175 hours a day so about 35 hours a month so it comes out to 1.50 an hour. For a $60 game that'd be 40 hours. I'm OK with that conversion. And who knows what they'll give out when it's f2p I'm sure there will be event extravaganza and now I'm better and have better racers. My initial outlay to play the game is covering this season and I still have left over. I ended up buying it three times on the pc xbox and switch so that's $210 and will cover 5 seasons or 30 weeks or 6.66 months or less than 32 a month for half a year. I'm not sure if I'll spend money once the tokens are gone but I do know I've played this game almost as much as any other game and definitely more than most. I think I'll just keep this and Diablo and instead of buying more games just throw money at these two for more hours.

I view it as AMC Value. I cancelled my AMC membership but including cost of gas it came out to 3 bucks an hour if all I saw were 3 hour movies. More cost per hour for shorter movies. So for every 70 bucks I only need 23.4 hours or 34 minutes a day based on 6 week seasons.

Yes I enjoy number crunching as much or more than video games. I'm going to start running again on Monday on a couch to marathon 6 month training program so that I have more numbers to crunch and because I want to listen to my running playlists again.

But I think I've decided I'd rather just play DSS and Diablo and throw money at them periodically that would equal or be less than me buying new games and playing those.

And all this is because I suck terribly at this game. Good people get it all for free. And because I do want the items to level up my racers. It would be interesting if all my level 25 racers now make season 2 easier.

I'm watching YouTube videos to see how people take the cornering on certain tracks. I've gone around on my own on the tracks in local play so that I can get muscle memory on track layout. Etc.

GatorDeb

New week unlocked 19 mins ago so I had to stay up already put in 30 mins since midnight. Gotta do the regulated ranked and now they added an extra level. Tomorrow the last of the season tour unlocks! At 1a dailies unlock, at 5p the loot boxes unlock, at 3p the daily xp unlocks, and weekly xp unlocks on Tuesdays

tanman

Wow, couch to marathon? That's great Deb! I've got a 5K in January that I'm already dreading.