Asphalt 8 is Dead. Here's Why

Sorry I've been away for a while, hope you liked my slightly pessimistic video about Asphalt 8! I feel as if it is overshadowed by Asphalt 9, and doesn't get as much attention as it deserves. Although Asphalt 8 has players, I do feel as if Asphalt 8 is dead
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[@FordGTStronk]

Thanks to those who have showed up early, the last couple months have been rough for me, and I haven't uploaded in a while. I hope to maintain a frequent upload schedule during the remainder of the year. I'd like to get two more videos in before the end of this year!

[@Ayman720S]

It's hard to gain views after a long absence of content

[@FordGTStronk]

Yep. I’m very lucky I in that regard because many creators never recover after taking breaks.

[@Ayman720S]

@@FordGTStronk true keep making videos on rare topics about asphalt 8, you will get views not just like; multiplayer tests, reviews, gameplays those are very boring to watch

[@thejavagolf]

Y'all remember the supra? And the tesla? And the hot wheels? And the cars where only like 3,000 bucks and the old garage? And mastery? What good times

[@BlueflagAlpha]

I remember mastery farming and the Enduro Double Down events

[@YohTaiSai420]

Stop your opening the flood gates.

[@bxndxlx4150]

I miss my Unimog :(

[@Ferdxv08]

I still have the tesla but not the supra

[@thejavagolf]

@@Ferdxv08 Nice :D. I joined asphalt 8 before they removed the scion car. I unfortunantley I do not own the supra.

[@903IDFOLEY1]

They should reconsider adding a new track instead of just cloning cars that are impossible to obtain.

[@Gallardude30]

And new game mode variants

[@Lunar_Slurpee]

Or maybe start by fixing the random explosions

[@Rover417]

Ikr

[@Ashow-0]

yo dude just hack it

[@JM_306]

​@@Ashow-0 how!!!!!!!

[@brandie3344]

I installed this game again recently to relive some nostalgia. It’s completely unrecognizable now. It’s so sad

[@ImH1m_theG]

cant agree more

[@BlueflagAlpha]

Agree

[@bravescotlandball5436]

I just did a week ago, still fun but longer after you finish season 1.......

[@Deveshkha]

Just downloaded it 2 days ago can't get shit without watching ads :/

[@sambouza]

it's like a completely different game right? The whole UI is different and so many new features which really alienated me from asphalt 8

[@WallabeeBe4tles]

I’m a day 1 veteran of Asphalt 8. Once I saw the tokens update back in 2015, I already knew the terrible path gameloft was walking down with alternative currency

[@shinji1264]

Facts, numba4 knows what he's talking about!

[@RedDrake110]

I only played modded versions for a year or 2 post 2015... It was disheartening to see Asphalt 8 get waylaid that hard. I still remember the good ol days of update 2.5... where the sesto was overpowered, the tuatara was the most fun s class and the camaro GS was a cheap and easy B class (and the survolt was an A class)

[@racerkingbbs04]

Same, I remember wanting just to own that ds automobiles car from class b it looked so cool but needed 300k money for it, then later on shit got tokens, I was like is it a gacha now ? but no it was just EA like microtransactions.... I loved the game soooo much, then in the later time, I tried modded versions which as sad as it seems was more fun since you can actually buy stuff without spending real money...

[@Reckless_one]

yeah the times when credit were the main and only currency.

[@murongxiaoxiaolovetrade]

Tbh early tokens updates were "fine" but of course they had to go out of control

[@kevinalberto8593]

The day they updated the prices for cars, making them extremely expensive but keeping the same rewards, they killed the game for me. It was such an addicting game and seeing that Gameloft keep killing it because of money makes me very sad. I hope the community could make some unofficial servers with the good old game when the company finally kill it and move to asphalt 9

[@bruhyt4655]

They destroyed the tuning system by removing max and requires shit tons of fusion coins to upgrade your cars

[@user-im7hv3jj7k]

It's all Vivendi's fault. The pieces of shit that worked there fucked up asphalt 8

[@bruhyt4655]

@@user-im7hv3jj7k real

[@normalstranger6482]

​@@user-im7hv3jj7ksome context

[@Ferdxv08]

I feel you so badly...

[@shauryadash1223]

This game made my entire child hood.... idk what I can say But damn i miss my well earned Lamborghini veneno

[@bruhyt4655]

It was the cheapest grade s back then only costing like 100k

[@shinji1264]

​@@bruhyt4655miss my range rover Evoque and Renault didn't even get a chance to get Shelby cobra while it was a beast

[@unknownforyoutoo]

@@bruhyt4655 i grinded the s class mercedes with my friend but now its all gone

[@jaynotonyoutube1808]

For me it was the pagani Zonda R

[@Ferdxv08]

I maxed the veneno yesterday and it was my dream since 2019

[@Chimera9101]

Asphalt 8 is dead since 2021 when the main menu of this game changed to A9-designed one.

[@DistantFlow]

Asphalt still has thousands of players playing multiplayer it's really fun and very rewarding

[@TheNewbie78]

Agreed, too many things were changed, and things that I loved about the game are now gone and they were replaced by some goofy ah system

[@theskyfallsapart3830]

Finally someone else who hates the new main menu

[@jasonkundu5572]

@@theskyfallsapart3830 frllll

[@cynthiacrueta2288]

​@DistantFlow bro i literally quit IT CHANGES THE ALL CLASS CREDITS INTO TOKENS SO I QUIT AND this game was my only childhood😢

[@donnycorn3086]

I love that this is the first video that addresses the fall of Asphalt 8, especially that the new-release bias of A9 is mentioned. However, as a 5-years veteran, I think it's best to talk about the reason why the game still managed to hold up today. Asphalt 9 is good, but not great. The more I played the game, the more I became irritated. Fuel system, janky physics taken from Asphalt Xtreme (an absolute gem when it was alive), new updates with new car restrictions most players can't get through because it's exclusively for a certain car, and the worst offender, unless those cars are meta or is the only available choice for daily/special events, those certain cars are to no use. A9 did nothing to solve that, instead they kept on pushing for more and more updates with newer limited events, basically FOMO. After claims of Gameloft copying games, in 2013 they decided to prove that they are still capable of making new, original games. Asphalt 8, with the physic system built from the ground up, held the racing up to a respectable degree. The controls are simple, the cars are weighty and reactive, and the maps are well-designed for the physic engine. This is what sets this game apart from the NFS MW12 mobile and became the biggest hit in mobile racing, because Asphalt 8's gameplay loop allows players to keep racing and not limiting players behind a fuel system like A9 do. This is THE game that defies the greatest of bigger companies, the game that defines the genre on the mobile platform, the one that made the biggest leap for the better. Since Vivendi took over in 2017, things has gone downhill. I was too young to realize back then, but the content update headed towards keeping players away from making fast progress, from removing replay from mastery (known for credit farm) to increasing car price (I got my 12C for 90k credits, now it's 200 tokens). Then, 2019, fusion coins, battle pass. The worst update known to the community. From this point forward, every updates was just to make the game look worse than it was before, and by locking players behind rewards that looks like an average worker's payout, it forces microtransaction boundaries to keep churning out money. Hell, there's a spending limit implemented in the game, how screwed up is that? Asphalt 8 is not like Asphalt 9. Asphalt 8 is so clear of what it is, covering it in crap doesn't hinder its identity of a great arcade racer. Asphalt 9 is the exact opposite, it's a mess that's being held up by the amount of care the company gives, because it makes money. Mind you, Chinese players are more interested in A9 than A8, and that means market expansion, means more money. Another point that drove A8 to its grave and piss on it. Just imagine, if this game reverts itself back to 2015, in the time when NFS has to take a break, Forza becomes stagnant of its identity, Gran Turismo strives for the real world, a racing game with visuals rivalled to the consoles of its time. Asphalt 8's fall was the combination of financial trouble, corporation greed, and predatory practices. What is left behind is a legacy almost unspoken to the racing genre, a moment of airborne crushed into bits and pieces by the harsh reality. I'm glad that I got to play Asphalt 8, the memories will never be forgotten, because there will never ever be a game like Asphalt 8: Airborne. Sorry for this long essay of a comment.

[@donnycorn3086]

By the way, I'm now a Race Driver: GRID fan. It sure fills the void that is Asphalt 8, but I don't think lingering on the past is the right thing for racing games.

[@Mindphaser1]

The core gameplay of A9 is still great despite issues with the physics engine (there are workarounds like pressing brake if the car starts flipping for no reason mid air), p2w BS, gambling masked as packs, unfair competition, fuel cells, tickets, FOMO because they return the premium cars once in a blue moon, and other crap. The game is a grindfest but you can get a decent garage for free if you keep playing every day and don't miss events, SE, MP + if you manage your resources wisely. I'm playing for 5+ years and I've got many top tier cars for free. A8 was great for its day but now it's obsolete, p2w and bloated as hell. "Asphalt 9 is the exact opposite, it's a mess that's being held up by the amount of care the company gives, because it makes money" Actually A9 is a pretty straightforward and well organized racing game. All sections are clearly separated and almost everything is easy to find. A8 is a complete mess with so many currencies, bikes alongside cars, design all over the place, silly upgrade system, boosts, ranking manipulation by getting the most speed for the lowest ranking (you don't see that shit in A9), etc.

[@donnycorn3086]

@@Mindphaser1 Again, A8 is only good with its gameplay. The currency is one of those that screwed the game (actually, the blue token was implied in the game shortly after launch, but it doesn't limit much of the game like the crap that is fusion coins). It's healthier in pre-2018, and most of the issues mentioned at the end was after 2018. I agree with the boosts and the manipulation tho. Asphalt 8 is horrible to play these days because they are intentionally making it worse. No one complaint about the car list and now it's a problem. No one complaint about the UI and now it downgraded into a void. Asphalt 9 gets all the care, that's why the game still has players around it, to shine it in the spotlight and not Asphat 8. One more thing. The bikes are great to drive, and to an extent I prefer them over cars. Maybe GL should have made a spinoff with bikes, because driving them with a different nitrous mechanic than cars gave them a lot of versatility.

[@Windows11Official]

Tbf, I think the fuel in A9 is good for preventing people spamming cars like Huracan or Vanda every single times like how R8 SE got spammed a lot in A8. Still there might be a better system to prevent people from spamming instead of fuel, like RP system from Racing Master

[@donnycorn3086]

@@Windows11Official I'm trying RM beta on PC, and while the control was irritating there, I love that they actually made the cars more balanced than just meta. That's probably until the Global release, but the RP system not only balances out the frequency of using one specific car, it gives leaderboard competition with those cars once you get it to around 1200RP, just enough so that you know how the car drives. It's probably one of the best MP-ranking system I've ever experienced so far with games like these.

[@9zard]

To be honest ever since when they change their name to car racing game because this is the main reason why it was a bit ruined and they completely took away 2 laps and 3 laps which so many people missed a lot

[@zakariyapedersen5715]

That must've been fun . Was already gone when I started playing

[@zakariyapedersen5715]

It isn't even an option in quick race where it would make sense

[@Taha-yx9ug]

wtf they removed multi lap races??

[@DrProfessorBello]

​@@Taha-yx9ugyo no way

[@raeferwilson2599]

Update. You can now earn over 100 tokens everyday and most cars can now be bought with reasonable amounts of tokens. Oh yeah A9 still sux

[@rodriguezracer4567]

I played A8 a ton back in middle school (around 2013-14ish) The selling point for me is that it was a major mobile racing game that didnt have a premium currency. Then tokens happened. I powered through for a while until they made it so tokens are required to max out on upgrades, that was the final straw thay made me quit the game. Looking at the game now, it seems things have only gotten worse.

[@mitrashailendra3817]

I spent a lot of time grinding for the BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage, which was at the time of release, one of the best cars in the game. I practiced hard, and I beat the nearly-impossible to beat AI for the challenge. And then they demoted it to the bottom of C class. I have never even opened Asphalt 8 since.

[@marcoflores5236]

Yea i was like wait…? Wasnt this car good back then, now its rotting

[@zeze64.]

remember when u needed 300k for the best B class car survolt? now its nerfed to the oblivion and Demoted to D...

[@Legomaster-jv8ll]

The real deathblow for me was when they decided to reduce payouts from 6,000 to 300. I remember using a double credits boost and grinding the Mercedes Benz Silver Lightning Dubai race over and over again. Despite what you’d think, it felt doable. Yeah, there were a lot of cars that were too far out of reach, but a good chunk of the cars and upgrades were well within reach. Each race felt like I was getting 1 step closer to that next car, or that new upgrade. But once they made those races worth 300 credits each, it became impossible. They had already increased the prices across the board, and having to now do 20 times the races just became impossible. At that moment imo, gameloft had killed whatever fun A8 had. I would check back in every so often, but the game just has nothing left. Sure they’ve got like 50 new cars, but none of them are affordable. It used to take maybe 10 races to get 100k now takes 160. And that’s assuming it costs 100k. If it costs in the millions, then just forget it. Asphalt 8 died a long time ago, and nobody can tell me otherwise. What remains is not Asphalt 8, but the zombified remains of Asphalt 8.

[@mizzo_1]

Quite perfectly put

[@Ozercraft86]

i'd say the golden age of the game was 2019, before the game became pay to win. i started playing the game when san diego harbor and china maps were added and always had fun but after 2019 i stopped playing because how much cars that are literally impossible to get without paying money were added, i also liked collecting card boxes (those which gave blueprint and pro upgrade cards) but then they removed it which made me sad

[@FordGTStronk]

Around 2013-2014 were my favorite years. I stopped playing before 2019

[@iamcool344]

⁠@@FordGTStronkI started the game in 2016 and quit in 2020 after they increased the price A LOT. I played asphalt 8 quite recently and the prices and micro-transactions are crazy

[@Steve1766]

nah 2016 - 2017 after 2018 it started falling

[@kadhir5738]

i started the game around 2014 and quite at 2019 😌😌

[@Ultimate_ACERACER]

@@FordGTStronk me too

[@skm8973]

This was a game of my childhood. I had many great cars, and was pretty good at it. One day when I returned from a break I found huge shift in car classes, making my best S class cars shift to A and even B class. Some cars simply disappeared. After that day I no longer played the game.

[@launcher126]

Fr same

[@okuu_utsuho]

This is why I am finding older versions of the game. Ngl, back in 2018 and 2020, A8 was enjoyable. I remembered back in 2020 when I got back to the game, I was excited when I got to max pro a car without any difficulties. Now, they removed that and forcing players to use fusion coins and cards to fully upgrade a car. Not just that, they nerfed a lot of my favorite D-class vehicles that used to perform good and can go up to 325 km/h with the purple nitro like the DeZir or the F150. I also remembered when you can vote for how many laps and tracks in mp back then. Well, I guess Gameloft and other game companies are gonna sacrifice their playerbase for money. 😢

[@sayaneechan5799]

I've been playing this game since 2014 so I've seen the many changes throughout the years. In fact, I remember when credits were the only currency present in-game. I remember when there were max upgrades only. Then pro upgrades were added in. We used to refer to fully upgraded cars as "max pro" or, if they weren't, we used to say things like 0500 5050 to state our current tuning of one car. It's no longer that way. Many cars were also changed in class and rank. Remember the SLK SE? It used to be an A class car, which had a starting rank of 885. Needless to say, it decimated lower rank lobbies because its speed was much higher than the rest. Well apparently now it's a class D car. The Chevrolet Impala was a class A car when it released. It was later relegated to D class as well. Both these cars also had "Elite Tuning", a feature which was also completely removed. F1 cars only had "pro" upgrades when they released. Why? Idk I guess GL wanted us to pay more money opening boxes for the cards required to upgrade them? Fact is, I bet new players were confused as to why these had "pro" only upgrades unlike the rest. I remember the Research & Development, Championship and Enduro Double Down events. We used to farm credits with Season 9 and Car Mastery. It was a great way to practice laps while earning credits for it. But of course, the Fast-Lane Update had to come in and make Mastery unreplayable. Later, Season 9 farming was also reduced so much, it was no longer worth it. Mastery was later removed altogether. Farming is just gone now so nowadays I spend like 2 or 3 hours on a lap while earning nothing from it aside from bragging rights. The Double Credits booster is completely useless now. Why is it still in the game? And don't get me started about the introduction of Fusion Coins. What a mess it was. At some point, the upgrades' weight distribution of cars were also changed. Upgrading the Top Speed now will shoot your rank up to the stars, while upgrading Handling or Acceleration all the way will only net you like 5 or 6 rank points up. This was likely done to prevent cars like SLK SE and R8SE to decimate lobbies with their high speed while maintaining a low rank. Also, licensing issues. Want these RUFs, 9FF, and Hot Wheels etc? Well you're out of luck, sorry 🤷‍♀

[@carreragt006]

the ctr3 and rt12s have been outright removed from the game a few updates ago, i no longer have them and the players that did got compensated for them and it wasnt even consistent, im still really mad about the fact that theyre gone because there was literally no reason for it.

[@Dr._VonBlack]

started playing back in 2014 and this game made SO many child hood memories and after all these micro transactions it just became so stale and so difficult without having to pay. i remember when cars like the ds survolt was like 8 thousand credits and it became like 300,000 and so on and so forth and fusion coins and everything it was really dead after 2020 i really miss what this game used to be man ut sucks to see it go

[@thxndabolt]

As someone who has been playing regularly for years, I agree with a lot of your points, but I think some are a bit unfair. The game is dying out but I wouldn't say it's dead - especially at the higher levels of skill where players are still pushing themselves to get better, improve their times, rival world records, place at the top of event leaderboards etc. I believe starting out in Asphalt 8 is basically impossible now, so the playerbase will only get smaller, but there are many groups within the current community who still love the game, whether they spent real money or not. Competing without spending real money is very much possible, myself and some others have managed it, but our potential is ultimately lower than those who were willing to drop their money on the best S class cars. Winning in multiplayer is easily possible without the best cars, but it takes a good amount of skill, which newer players won't have of course. By ignoring the pay to win currencies and playing to improve my skills and racing with friends I've consistently had a pretty good time, but I would never recommend anyone to download the game in 2023. It's not worth the time or money investment to reach the capabilities of older players, even if most of those older players love the game very much.

[@launcher126]

I remember playing this game after my cousin showing me it when I was like 7 years old around 2013-2016. I didn’t mind all the other features, I just wanted to navigate to buy the cars I wanted and do my favorite maps for fun, I was dumb enough to not know and couldn’t till some differences of the cars and where to buy them so I just mindlessly click where i think they’re gonna be until I see them. Now, I see this game as just nostalgia and quite fun to play for a bit.

[@galvezdaniel7618]

Just watched this vid, this made me remember those days while I was still playing it on my mom's phone as a young teen around 2015-2016, by those times I remember I had just unlocked season 7, and that's when I ended Tried to revisit in 2019, using my phone, that's when I was surprised with the cards and blueprints and pro max upgrading, and especially those fusion coins (those purple tokens, if I remember it right). I remember still enjoying the game for its gameplay and nothing else, so when the updates kept coming with unreachable car prices, I knew it was time to say goodbye to that game. This video only made me realize how right I was to never look back on that game anymore. I also played a bit of A9 around its launch in around 2018 or 2019, and with its fuel system, I thought I was playing a duplicate of A8 with the fuel system adapted from CSR Racing (yes, that drag racing game) and also decided I won't play this game for too long, and so I did, not anymore playing it after around 3-4 months since I discovered it

[@nullcandyy]

Sad to see coming from an a8 veteran. Bring me back to the days of multiplayer tuning my 330p4 to battle with vulcans. Bring me back to championships, edd's and those oh so difficult r&ds

[@rishikane8310]

I remember I used to play this game a lot when i was younger. My friends even used to call me drift king when we were playing together sometimes lol. But I feel like I would've stayed with this game more if it didn't delete my data. I remember I used to play everyday to grind and successfully get the Koenigsegg Agera, but one day it just deleted my data making me start all over again...I lost my precious F1 cars, Koenigsegg, Bugatti Veyron, and the Mercedes Silver. RIP.

[@Steve1766]

i remember the old days when you could buy all cars with coins you earn from races after they started with tokens blueprints etc

[@gabrielchibekachanda8447]

state of tuning you upgrade a car for over 100k credits,fusion coin or 1,000 tokens just to receive I kilometer of speed or +0.1 handling

[@tryhardfighter1833]

I returned after a while. Everything costs a fortune. I quit

[@spargeltyp]

I have stopped to play the career mode because of its drill to pay money, and currently I'm trying to save up for a hypercar with my tuned Civic in the multiplayer mode or just doing free racing

[@oliverandrews603]

I used to play this game all the time in 2017-2018. You used to be able to buy good multiplayer cars just by grinding credits from the single-player levels. Everything started to go downhill when they released the update with the mario-cart-esque mechanics that nobody cared about. Then came a barrage of new currencies, new multiplayer matching systems, and messing around with the D-C-B-A-S class system that took a bunch of cars that used to be really good in multiplayer and made them garbage (especially the R8 and SLK 55 special edition). I had cars in the S and A classes that got demoted to D class. The only surefire way to win in multiplayer now is to either use a maxed out D class car (fully upgraded Dodge Dart) or to basically have the fastest car in the entire game. Very little of multiplayer is based on skill, it's just about the relative speed of your car compared to others in the bracket.

[@justsomerandompeople4353]

everything you said is right for me i wont spend in the game if only to unlock cars i would rather spend on pass something like that and back in old days i used to grind money to buy cars thats whats make it more exciting and now cars most of the car can buy with money now they change it to another currency which is more harder to get or must spend money on it which is why i hated and lost interest playing the game, for the gameplay i choose a8 because i love more the physics here than a9 to bouncy and in terms of speed all that but yeah i guess this is the end of it they make a big mistake

[@_skye_3754]

i used to play asphalt 8 back in 2016-2021 it was fun even with the tokens it felt fun doing mastery and saving my tokens i remember saving for months to finally get the vulcan the R&D events even though they were hard (looking at the bmw hommage) they felt good to finally complete. the special edition cars were so much fun to drive as well this game in its prime could have me awake all night grinding multiplayer. what killed it for me was the addition of fusion coins the removal of tokens from mastery and the near impossible chances of getting cars that can actually compete in multiplayer without getting your credit card out.

[@Jojo-hx1pi]

i'm a veteran of asphalt 8 played this game several times and also played hacked versions, this game influenced my childhood in terms of aesthetics and views on supercars and unknown and cool supercars and hypercars, music and sounds are a separate story, but unfortunately asphalt 8 was ruined for money, I am currently playing Asvalt 8+, who knows, who knows, this is a version of this game that has not changed at all since the release of Asvalt 8 and only got better, it is a salvation for veterans, it is in apple arcade

[@SpizzzYT]

downloaded the game in november or so to re live my childhood (i hate asphalt 9). while i completed the career, i couldn’t get many of the cars i had when i was younger, like the veyron. things were so expensive, and the tuning. THE TUNING. whatever happened to paying credits for it?? nice video. (the gameplay is a little questionable though haha)

[@Ayush-computerttoaci3040]

Yes! The the upgrading cost are changed to fusion coins and car costs have also exceeds that no one can buy . And there is no way to get Token (A coins) and Vouchers.

[@arandominternetperson4462]

Back in the day, I had a hacked account with an infinite amount of credits. It lasted from 2016 to about 2019 before getting deleted. I remember it was difficult to play the game WITH INFINITE CREDITS. Can't imagine what F2P players had to go through. I also think the main reason for the game's death is GAMELOFT ruining it on purpose to funnel the remaining players to A9. A9 Is addicting, but the entire gameplay philosophy has been changed. Every single Asphalt game before 9 had super wide and long tracks, making them top-speed focused. Or simply said - Dumb-fun. In A9 all of the recently added maps are cramped, claustrophobic, full of turns, and barely any straightaways. Not to mention all of the recently added cars have FARTS instead of nitrous.

[@KitKitChanIsaac]

A9's tracks are more reliant on player skill

[@toxicdumplings2814]

i think there was just way too much like bp, tokens, differnt curencies. it was overwhelming at one point when i wanted to go back for another run. but to even get a single upgrade that cost an arm and a leg was crazy, they literally brought it to A9, idk why after few weeks of launch, they decided to up all the costs every single time.

[@herro-bf6un]

DUDE THE CAR I ALWAYS WANTED BECAME LIKE 10 TIME MORE EXPENSIVE!😠

[@milowright2415]

Even though everything is changing a lot in this game, and it wasn’t the same as it was like 6 or 7 years ago, I still really enjoy playing the game as it brings back nostalgia. I’m sure that in 6 or 7 years in the future from now (if the game is still going), I’ll still enjoy playing it.

[@Vortex20243]

its so sad to see such a nostalgic, fun game dead. that game was literally my childhood. i remember the tesla, hotwheels and other vehicles which are now sadly removed.. the game sucked after they updated the menu backround and stuff. it doesnt feel the same anymore..

[@Exorcist_Champion]

For real, when asphalt inflated the prices of car upgrades, it was bad. A lot of people left, and new players later on would struggle to upgrade low class cars. Though asphalt has been more generous in events with good rewards, you basically have to have an s class car to at least try to get the best rewards. Harder to reach it due to no new players sticking around. But really, you don’t really need to spend money on the game to progress. However, the ways of getting the good stuff, like festivals (which is car hunts), which is how I got most of my high class cars. They keep removing the opportunity to advance, which sucks, especially for new comers.

[@DXSHTPST]

it was a good game until 2017.

[@suryanshmehra]

I first played this game when there was a Tesla and absolutely no microtransactions. That was the best time. Microtransactions ruined Asphalt 8

[@robinilsa2057]

I remembered having fun back when I had an iPad, Good Times…

[@Ajibica117]

I used to play the hell out of this game. I was so happy to have one car above all others The C3 corvette. It was A class and I had the car in real life. Redownloaded and my account was lost. I was given back a few things but I’ll never have that car, that feeling, and that accomplishment back.

[@FordGTStronk]

Same thing happened to me years ago. I was really mad as well

[@bobmoneyman]

For me when they added the R8 se I was starting to lose interest but I kept playing then in 2019 they made ruined tuning and even since then I left and started to hack the game using Mods and I'm still not banned

[@theflysavage4879]

After they nerfed AM Vulcan from king to decent, game died for me R.i.p A8

[@DeadwaveCarrier-oc1wo]

I haven't played this in years. Blasting Lightbringer, Professional Griefers, and Holdin' On every race but I never got much of a handle on things and eventually moved on.

[@VK1NG_ua]

i've been playing since the game became free on the app store(2014 as I remember), its been basically a decade since I started playing, I've seen every update and change, like cheap cars no microtransactions and etc. etc. the rest is history.. looking at the game now it still is p2w but just play it, multiplayer is not the only mode where you could get easy credits(i know the original multiplayer was deleted long ago) and I lost my old account from like 2016/17 so in 2022 where I lost my account I quit the game untill late 2023, I tried recovering the account but it was unsuccessful so I quit again, not long ago I started completely from 0 and all I can easely say is that the game is just kinda overhated and underrated(I was thinking that the game is 100% p2w but its not, you just have to play to obtain certain cars from like "monthly" passes or festivals they need the grind, its worth it if you restarted from absolutely nothing)

[@Alpakkacz]

its just sad. this game used to be good but now like most of the cars cost tokens so without paying, it is really hard to get some good car and upgrades

[@FordGTStronk]

Exactly

[@HTTYDS]

When I play asphalt used to play now I have a new account but with this new changes I can become more and more better

[@FordGTStronk]

A8 restarted my account many years ago for some reason. I was not happy in the slightest

[@Norbo.-.]

Reason one: They changed the prices of cars some years ago, they became insanely expensive

[@Arkson_2010]

I played this game for 4 years then came back a year later. I have never been so disappointed in a game ever. I came back in 2021 and it was already ruined.

[@YappingtonUniG.]

Sad tbh, since it was my first asphalt game

[@brodiefolkard6438]

All these comments saying that 2017 onwards was prime is kinda sad ngl. The game died once they added tokens

[@S1NT0VA]

If only asphalt 9 was any better 😭😭 I’ve seen so many quit the game after the c7r update

[@juniarso2406]

I've quit since they add Fusion and not being able to farm in mastery anymore

[@kamonek3825]

I remember playing on the very classics of asphalt until the 5th then I just stopped

[@Airborn200]

is it me or are the coloring on some cars just messed up in the game?

[@FordGTStronk]

I think the game has some sort of filter, but I’m unsure about this.

[@realrazoblast4643]

The Mercedes Benz Silver Lighting was around 300k. Now, it hovers in the million. They inflated the system of credits.

[@unknownunknown-wb9bx]

i miss OG asphalt 8, shi was literally my childhood 😭🙏

[@FordGTStronk]

Same to be honest

[@Akira_drafts]

I still think asphalt 8 is better than asphalt 9

[@zuneid375]

U r right

[@ENEXEI_The_Goat]

Nah you both are delusional,asphalt 9 has more depth in terms of gameplay and it is less p2w than asphalt 8 despite being a p2w game itself, I can go on and on but I wanted to keep it short, yall are just stuck to nostalgia.

[@Akira_drafts]

@@ENEXEI_The_Goat its not just nostalgia, honestly it feels like im playing subway surfers changing lanes, earlier it had some skill celling now if you have a better car you win skill celling is alot lower now, besides that the maps in asphalt 8 were a little more cinematic i would say which i liked but thats biased.

[@ENEXEI_The_Goat]

@@Akira_drafts but still my point stands, you were describing your feelings when playing the game, and yeah all that is fun but I still believe asphalt 9's gameplay is superior than that of asphalt 8, for example: the cars in the game have different playstlyles to them, so for example I use a low handling car with good acceleration/good nitro, for example something like the Pagani Zonda R, I avoid drifting for long durations since normal steering would be faster than just drifting, and prioritizing nitro for regaining speed after corners, whereas a good handling/drifting car like the Vanda for example, I prioritize drifting and trying to use perfect nitro through turns to get an advantage, and also you use different types of cars for every specific season, for example in classic, acceleration is king, and if you have a car that is lower than 81-82 acceleration, you are gonna struggle alot since it's gonna be harder to pass other racers, in slipstream/ghost slipstream, top speed and nitro are very important so cars with those stats are better,in ghost, you can practically use any car but acceleration and handling is going to give you a winning edge than cars with other good stats.

[@Akira_drafts]

@@ENEXEI_The_Goat i aint reading all that, agreed asphalt9>asphalt8. have a good day!

[@omidseyedi5998]

I am a veteran since 2017-2018 and the cars back then were dirt cheap ,that a lamborghini was 55k coins but now with the price update the game sucked, the game also had a huge micro transaction problem where you litteraly had to spend money to progress more to the game and there were only 2 cars I got that were actually good (2 festival cars)

[@teddyteodosio4991]

I used to play a8 before but let it die since everything is so costly. Pay to win games like this suck a lot

[@kexcz8276]

Well, when the Xtreme died, there is no surprise airborne did as well...

[@KitKitChanIsaac]

First played A8 in like 2014 or something, stopped sometime 2017/18 if I remember correctly, spent some time on 9, now I play neither of them. I'll stick to full on simulators.

[@mrspydyt]

It’s so expensive to unlock cars and upgrade them nowadays since it’s harder to farm crddits

[@jackgamer9635]

Do you have any more footage of asphalt 8 infinity?

[@FordGTStronk]

No

[@jackgamer9635]

@@FordGTStronk its okay thanks for showing us some footage of asphalt 8 infinity

[@RedDrake110]

There is a reason my 8 yr old phone still lives, bcoz it has and runs asphalt 7 perfectly, and before 8 went straight down its greed trip, was and now is my favourite asphalt title alongside 6. I wonder why asphalt 7 became incompatible on newer phones... (Just like galaxy on fire 2)

[@Santhoshgamer990]

The olden days of asphalt 8 airborne has gone now. 😢😣😭. No more asphalt 8.I have stopped playing it before 1 year. But now I have started to play asphalt 9 legends 😃😎

[@danbadie4130]

I played on android. Saved account and all. Decided for old time's sake to revisit the game. Lost most if not all my cars, but honestly that wasn't bad because i left the game for good when fusion coins were implemented for tuning. As if tuning wasn't already hard as a F2P player. I was competitive, but I knew it was time to move on. I don't regret anything, I'm glad it happened.

[@wally1077]

I miss so much Asphalt 8😢

[@jimmydcz724]

I just redownloaded the game after 5 years, it was my childhood game, but now, with all these additions, it feels, I dunno, empty? I don't know what to play. Career? Tournament? what happened to just multiplayer? why can you play with randos in tournaments but not with your friends if your not connected to the same wifi? The gameplay itself I find very fun though, shame the rest doesn't work anymore. The tournaments are also mostly empty, and you can hardly compete against maniacs who sold their soul to get the good cars.if anyone wanna play hit me up.

[@Godly.v1]

I liked when the token event thing would give u the car for free instead of having to grind and pay money, one of my accounts had the Senna, Evija & Zerouno just bcs of it

[@-vlad332_2]

even so there's no way that I'm switching to 9, it just feel bad, somehow graphics too.

[@corygshava6232]

to be honest i love the game but it just reached a point where it seemed like it rewarded hackers more than normal players. the first time i ever felt good about hacking a game

[@user-bn8wg9cm5b]

Imagine being a new non-skilled player after the game got this far. The game isn't for me cause I can't spend because I'm broke. I quit from this game 2 year ago. Can still remember how hard it is to master😓

[@Inderjeetsingh-so5fv]

3:50 but old asphalt 8 is still something that players want to come back to because the gameplay mechanics and visuals of as8 will always remain classic and memorable no matter what,even if asphalt 9 has improved versions of those,the sountracks and visuals of as8 used to be the best.

[@meatball4222]

2 month ago I decided to intsall asphalt 8 aftes aroung 9 years of not touching this game and when I opened it I thought that I accidentally installed a knock off but when I realised it wasnt I started crying

[@sambouza]

Dude as a 2014 veteran it really hurts to see a childhood game destroyed like this.. I only remember there being 1 currency which is the gold, and you can basically buy every car with just gold. Maybe there are a few premium cars which cost the blue tokens (please excuse my terminology, I have left the game in 2017 and I'm really uneducated and outdated) and those were dirt cheap too. The moment they started adding more and more cars which costed credits it became really hard to progress. More and more cars I love which costed gold now cost some weird and niche currency which I have none of. Asphalt 8 was such a good game in it's prime, there weren't alot of things and things were extremely simple. Drive and play, get gold, get better cars, get more gold and the cycle continues. I remember playing with my cousins when they were still "young enough to play", now we're all grown up. Ah nostalgia really hits hard for this game because I think I spent the majority of my life in childhood just spending my time playing with relatives. I do hope others have had the same experience.

[@FordGTStronk]

Yeah, I used to play this game when I was younger too. I played it when it was a paid game. It's sad to see how far (or not far, for that matter) that this game is come.

[@skyfuzzball8312]

That's why I'm looking for the open source alternative / clone to this game

[@Ayman720S]

can't take the fact that this video is now 5 months old, it was like you just uploaded and I got the notification

[@FordGTStronk]

It's been a while, but this video is really picking up steam in recent months. Trying my best to pump out content, but it is hard to juggle with schoolwork

[@Ayman720S]

@@FordGTStronk wish you the best

[@penumbradude9239]

This is the one game I'm most upset about with how it's changed, I loved the hell out of this game with the high speeds and grip, the last time I had fun with this game was when the apollo ie came out, and then when the update to "make starter players have a better time in multiplayer" it was a complete disaster, I dearly miss the old A8. I loved when the main currency actually meant something you could actually buy cars, now everything is a pay wall.

[@FordGTStronk]

Same. I grew up alongside this game, and always downloaded it on each new device I got. It pained me to finally delete it off of my current iPhone

[@penumbradude9239]

@@FordGTStronk It really hurts, while instead I grew up with nfs most wanted and carbon, A8 has physics I love so much.

[@Kareem_Benjamn.]

I got lucky with the pro tuning i has the 12c and the sesto elemento maxed on pro but low on regular tuning and let me tell you now those two are absolutely mental in multiplayer never playing it again tho it's just pay to win and simply repetitive i have completed the game three times over and had almost all the cars but i loved the 12c

[@Nathan--Drake]

I lost my asphalt 8 progress twice I reached season 9 twice After that i stopped playing because it became harder to repeat the grind

[@FordGTStronk]

Asphalt 8 plus is mainly what I play now. It’s way easier than regular A8, but I rarely play multiplayer, so my experiences may be different

[@Nathan--Drake]

@@FordGTStronk what's "asphalt 8 plus"

[@MoyosoreOgunbiyi]

@@Nathan--Drake An Apple Arcade exclusive version that retains some of the features of the old version like accessible Cars, cheap upgrades and easy unlocks. Since you are paying an Apple Subscription to play the paywalls in-game are almost nonexistent. Most of the Elite Cars in the Global version that you would normally pay an arm and a leg to own are so easy to unlock its beyond laughable. Shame that I'm on Windows... 😅

[@dacialogan6605]

i lost my asphalt 8 progress 4 times

[@iftikhar9590]

One thing I loved about asphalt 8 is that they add cars that people don't really know about and they became popular because of asphalt remember the trion nemesis and sin s1 good times man.

[@FordGTStronk]

Definitely true. Being unrealistic worked to the game's advantage, as they were able to introduce many cars that were obscure and had cool/differing design elements. They also didn't have to worry about realism in stats, so they could just release a non-functional (in real life) car in game.

[@iftikhar9590]

@@FordGTStronk yh

[@ChloeCeriseisFlippinOut]

I miss the old Asphalt 8...

[@imagiofrancis7289]

i remeber years back i grinded for the p1 then i lost my account and reinstalled the game after a year only to find the only way that i could get it back was to pay for it never touched the game again

[@FordGTStronk]

I've never heard of this. What do you mean by paying to restore your account?

[@gos21222]

I still play this game cuz i cant have asphalt 9 on my phone for some reason :(

[@Teddy-gamesatYT]

I still play it i have the Lamborghini Sian and the 2018 McLaren X

[@bosscraftx8507]

Totally agree. All those coins and fusion tokens now are worthless. I can no longer buy new S type cars because of this.

[@FordGTStronk]

Agreed, I am pretty sad about it tbh

[@Taha-yx9ug]

i started the game again on pc, but the economy is just so garbage. I played career with the least amount of upgrades done and cars bought, yet i still got locked out of the career because i didnt have enough resources. Like come on, when the game literally blocks you from playing the game its just not gonna go.

[@saddemon3913]

For me, when i first even meet this game, its sadly alreay have died to me, too much microtransactions, and after i learned how game was used to be at version 1.0.0 i were shocked, i never played this game as usual anymore... So now i have 1.0.0 premium mod by Techboy and im glad THIS version is just good game, also its called "Premium" not because its paid, its free, just game feels now like complete project without microtransactions at all and with fixed car prices, with less grind, and feels and plays as fun as ever, so don't support piracy, but Gameloft raised this game to the tops and also as made it to top ruined it to top of the bottom... So just let ya know the game isn't comepletely died, its turned into a legacy, community making mods, learning stuff and how its made and slowly turning it into community project

[@iamcool344]

I would do anything to bring back og asphalt 8

[@elrondforwin]

my, my childhood, my childhood is dead bro

[@Just_Xnoob]

This game used to be my childhood favorite and now I don't even wanna talk about it that how horrendous it has became. The festival system was absolute garbage it had no meaning to it, everyone could get that car but never upgrade it. Reason, why I switched to Asphalt 9, it's just far more better.

[@raeferwilson2599]

Can't agree about A9. It sux donkeys choads

[@rubenrodenburg4478]

Well i got apple arcade on my phone and can play asphalt8+ that is a different app but its like the game from 6 years ago, with te old menu and currenties, no micro transactions, and no ads. but the main thing is that you can buy a class S car for only 500000, like the old prices, because now you just cant buy a class S car with creddits in asphalt 8

[@theviper7248]

Inflation, it‘s definitely inflation and microtransactions (like how most of the cars cost tokens now when they didn‘t a few years ago???)

[@FJUVHJDSR]

The crash in the background is extremely annoying, makes me wanna leave TBH

[@AniCrazey]

i miss when racing was simple. race, earn money, make simple upgrades. most racing games these days have blue prints and all sorts of nonsense that u need to earn before you can upgrade your car

[@FordGTStronk]

Same. I mostly stick to premium/non-p2w racing games only now.

[@mishaljez8625]

havent played in years but surely made my childhood

[@DistantFlow]

I have been playing Asphalt 8 for about 11 years now, I started to play again in 2019, when the game began to be pay-to-win. I have played hundreds of multiplayer games and for most of the time I nearly got full lobbies up to 12 racers per match. Yes, asphalt 8 has lost a ton of players over the years for removing the mastery mode, making cars very hard to buy, and making it nearly impossible to get tokens. But I'm not a beginner so I had many S-class cars. For anyone who is trying to make it big in this game, I would advise you to be patient and wait for the opportunity in the event tab or in the racing pass as you get B, A, or even S class cars for FREE! Asphalt 8 is still thriving it still has a large fan base, and it's nowhere near dead.