Asphalt 9: Legends 12+

Great Game, just a few complaints and a few suggestions

Hey Gameloft, I love how you have now listened to the community, although there are a few complaints that would need to be addressed and a few humble suggestions. First of all, I hate how we still have to pay up to get some of the strongest cars or a car you really want. Yes, I understand you need to make money, but at least have some balance. Also, make sure matchmaking online is also balanced and fair. I’ve had races where I was the only silver and the others were gold. Now for some suggestions, I think it would be great if you added the 1999 Nissan Skyline GT-R R34. It got legalized here in the USA, so it only makes sense to add it, but please make it free or at the very least have a car hunt for it instead of making it a legend pass car because 10 times out of 10, I’m not buying the legend pass. Another suggestion would be to add past legend pass cars to the show room. There are a lot of cars I want but can’t get anymore because they were legend pass cars, so adding legend pass cars like the Lamborghini Huracán STO or Porsche 911 Carrera RS 3.8 would definitely help players progress faster. Now I’m not saying you should add every legend pass car at once on the next season, maybe just add 5 or 6 at a time, and when you’re all caught up, you can either wait 5 or 6 seasons to add more show room cars or wait until the current season is over so you can add that car to the show room. Hopefully you listen!

I love it but needs balance

Legendary game no arguments. Amazing graphics. The driving itself is over the top but that’s the asphalt experience and it’s really fun. And if I still want to progress but play casually I can with the touch drive feature that was totally genius. I hesitated to play asphalt 8 sometimes because it really required you to be focused on the game. But now I can still progress if don’t have both hands free. But I must say I would never take away the traditional driving controls completely because I feel like that’s the only way to enjoy a true asphalt experience. Anyways, I miss the ability to just practice on tracks without it taking away from the cars gas tanks because I want to master the tracks or play an unlimited amount even if it means not getting rewarded for it. Another thing the game needs some balance in single player. My cars rank could be 300 above the recommended rank and I lose with or without touchdrive on. One thing that could help this I noticed is when I get a knockdown the npc will spawn in front of me yet when I crash I automatically am moved to last place. I also wish you could just restart a race when something like that happens rather then finish or quit just to wait all that time to boot up the same race again. Well I hope you guys at game loft read this because I saw there were 600,000 reviews and this will probably be buried anyway haha.

Good game, very pay to win.

This game is fun and the graphics are very high-quality. The (very major) issue with this game is that it is EXTREMELY pay to win. How it works is you race to earn money. You spend your money on card packs. If you are lucky and spend a lot of time in the game, you can eventually earn enough identical cards (out of 500+ options) to get a new vehicle. The top-tier cars each take about 8-10 hours of gameplay to unlock. If you spend money, you can buy the exact same car for $3. You can see the problem with this. If I were to spend $1000 dollars on the game, I would have a very good chance at dominating on the leaderboards. If I could not afford to spend $1000 dollars on a phone game, I would get smoked by the rich person. Gameloft probably will never fix this as they make tens of thousands of dollars a day off of people spending money in order to win. Most players will never be able to own the cool cars featured in the video. We play this game to escape and drive the cars of our dreams and then we find we are stuck with a Mitsubishi Lancer, a bmw convertible, and a 2017 Camero. Gameloft, this game is a disappointment. You had the chance to make something actually good, but you blew it. If you respond, which you won’t, you’ll probably say something like “we’re sorry you had a negative experience with our game, it may not be for everyone”. Please give me a actually useful reply.

Developer Response ,

Hello! Many thanks for your review. We will be certain to pass along your feedback regarding the in-game video ads to the team so they can look into fine-tuning this when working on game balancing.