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December 19th, 2011, 18:21 GMT · By

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Need for Speed World Lets You Pay $100 (€77) For an In-Game Car

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Free-to-play titles like Electronic Arts’ Need for Speed World online racing game rely on making money by selling to players various in-game goods, like race cars, to improve gain an advantage over rivals.

Now, it seems things have taken a turn for the extreme, as EA has just deployed the very special Koenigsegg CCX ‘Elite’ Edition, which costs a whopping $100 (€77).

If you might actually consider this, EA is offering a 25 percent discount until December 21, which means you’ll ‘only’ have to pay a totally reasonable $75 (€57).

Don’t think this Koenigsegg CCX will just be an exception, as EA plans on offering more ‘premium elite’ cars in NFS World, so really loyal players might want to save some cash this holiday season so they can buy all these in-game vehicles.

Of course, you can still play NFS World without paying anything, but don’t get upset when someone with a Koenigsegg CCX Elite will dominate you in a race.

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Comment #1 by: Talavaj on 31 Jan 2012, 12:28 UTC reply to this comment

That is how f2p games work and also a reason why p2p games are dying, however having experience with it, the mentioned game is actually one of the cheaper in industry. I've seen 500$ "sales" in other mmorpgs which despite advertised as "get this+ that + that on top of what you actually buy!" usually mean the players just spend 500$ on garbage they don't need just to get that "this" and believe it or not, many do so

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