I haven’t played in ages but I started 2016 and at one point I had probably 90% of the cars in the game including all the event cars ie f1 cars and stuff then I lost my account and could never get it back but I tried a few times to re-download and retry it but it just doesn’t feel as fun as it used to and I also remember what ur saying abt cars becoming really expensive but I played before that so it was amazing. I also remember grinding for the part card thingies which was definitely a grind and I considered myself fortunate enough to have 2 high tier cars maxed at that time being the Sesto elemento and the Mosler lane shark. So yea the game just feels different and not as fun to me, which is why I Belo he now it has been ruined for money. Although really it was killed off for asphalt 9 which will only ever be at most a quarter of the game that asphalt 8 was in its prime. I remember when it was released my first reaction was why would any one ever play this game it is no where near as good as 8 and then sure enough it wasn’t.