Bonus Seasonal Content Is On The Way To Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled

Yeah, i'm still boycotting activision.

@aznable Yeah but this is pretty cool FREE content so....

So this content is permanently in the game once its released right?

I absolutely loathe this practice. Just have everything unlockable in game by doing well at the game or by completing oddball challenges like winning 10 races without jumping or the like.

Ok, does anybody have a single clue who the dude on the winter festival grand prix is?

@Bizzyb Yeah it's only free if you buy the game, so...

Why complain...it's free (at least this time).

November is obviously Pasadena but no idea who the Reindeer one is.

@earthb0und
You have to have an Internet connection to earn coins to buy things. What they couldn't allow you to win in game currency offline and buy from the in game store as a means of unlocking? Marvel Vs Capcom 2 on ps2 allowed you to do exactly that and unlock a lot of characters, artwork and colors! What's their excuse?

I wish they could tweak the CPU AI, at least for Adventure mode. Finished this game back in June but never touched it again.

In my opinion, the original is still superior gameplay-wise (just like the Crash trilogy), but this one has at least 10x more content and looks gorgeous in comparison. A real shame we can't have everything.

I own this on Xbox. Last time I checked online multiplayer racing was pitiful with terrible match making, glitchy poorly populated lobbies, woeful loading times and no ranking system!!!

Why are they introducing new gimmicky content when the main game IMO is broken????

It's not free. You either waste 30+ hours grinding coins and nitro or you pay microtransactions.

Meanwhile, the game is still a glitchy mess.

I enjoy doing these I've finished in the top 5% the last couple grand prix and it just adds a little more to the game.

@Doofenshmirtz YouTube channel "Canadian guy eh" posted a video regarding the new grand prixs, and he says who he thinks the winter festival character is. Dunno if he's right, but I think it's worth checking out.

Uhh the spyro grand Prix is over?

@AnnoyingFrenzy once all Grand Prixs end then everything from every Grand Prix will enter the games in-game-store and stay there forever.

@ralphdibny ended yesterday

@ChompyMage Thanks for the info man.

@PBandSmelly Which cheat codes did they remove?

https://www.newsweek.com/ctr-nitro-fueled-cheat-codes-1445312

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-06-21-crash-team-racing-nitro-fueled-cheats-list-all-ctr-cheat-codes-6035

When they put micro-transactions on this game, I removed it from my to buy list

Got to keep that live service going to try and rack up more money from microtransactions. Scumbags.

@ChompyMage I think it ended Sunday/Monday here which is why I was confused the article said it could still be enjoyed

@earthb0und Got to disagree with this. You've got to play the absolute hell out of it every day to unlock everything before a Grand Prix runs out. It isn't as simple as "just play it and you'll unlock it", it's more like "dedicate your life to it and you'll unlock it". Activision is relying on people not being able to get everything in time and buying the extra coins at the end to get what's left.

“Free” is a strong word. Track is free to use. Rest is hidden behind a massive grind or ludicrous pay real money for VC system where all the content would cost hundreds and hundreds of pounds.

It really is horrible.

You have to quickly be at ease with knowing you’ll never unlock everything. You would have to sink hundreds and hundreds of hours to unlock the lot

@scully1888 snap. Exactly what I was just typing at same time. I’ve sunk serious hours in this and it’s near impossible to unlock it all without paying big bucks

@ChompyMage except that hasn’t happened yet with any of the stuff. All says coming later or did a few days back. For the first two Grand Prix.

@scully1888 in terms of the grand prix? Certaintly not, u can unlock stuff very quickly

The pitstop however? Yes, its grindy

Extra tracks are always nice. As for the rest: Grinding again for all that stuff...I don't know if I am in the mood.

I think people are giving this game too much of a bash. EVERYTHING is unlockable if you just play the game - you don't need to shell out the money to get more coins.

That being said, the last three grand prix's were a complete drag once you completed the nitro bar. Challenges were never THAT difficult, and it just became repetitive. If there were new seasonal modes like what Rocket League did for it's Summer Event, then I'm sure that would give the CTR fans something else to hold onto other than characters and karts that they have to grind for.

I stopped playing this when they added microtransactions to it.

@Stocksy I said after all the Grand Prixs end then the stuff will be added to the store. Not all of the Grand Prixs have ended yet

@scully1888 I've never had to do that. For the Back N. Time Grand Prix I got in a did a few of the daily challenges every other day and easily finished the entire Nitro Bar

@Doofenshmirtz rudolf the red nosed reindeer?

@StormtheFrontier I know they’ve added it, but from my experience it hasn’t changed a single thing. The shop prices haven’t changed, the rate of earning coins has stayed the same, and the micro transactions are actually in a spot where you have to go out of your way to get to them. They really are there for those who just don’t wanna grind.

Also, the team are consistently adding new, free content every month, and considering the game wasn’t at triple A prices to start with, is it really wrong that they have an optional revenue stream?

And to those saying the bundles are too pricey, consider that the prices for each item has always been:

New character: 1500
Legendary skins: 2500
Paint: 1500
Stickers: up to and in excess of 2000, depending on how many there are
Wheels: 2500
Karts: actually, I dunno the exact number, but kart bundles are usually 4500.
Decals/vinyls: 250, 500, 1000 (depending on rarity)

I do think that some items are overpriced, but they have not gone up since micro transactions were added.

Still better than what Sega is doing with Sonic Team Racing

@ChompyMage For the first Grand Prix you needed 42,000 Nitro Points to get everything, and you only got 75-150 for each Daily Challenge. That isn't a minor amount of work.

@Alpha008 I'm pretty sure some of the bundles did increase in price but maybe i'm misremembering.

Anyway saying microtransactions are optional is a little misleading, when I first got it I thought the game was grindy and it turns out it was by design, we see this in games where microtransactions are removed, they often have to entirely rebalance the entire in game economy as a result because the game becomes too frustrating (Shadow of War for example). There's no option to just have a less grindy game, the prices, the drip feeding of wumpa coins, the trickle of nitro fuel has all been meticulosly put together with the intent to get people spending.

I'm not here to preach to anyone, if you genuinely haven't noticed a change and you're enjoying the game then I'm happy for you. I just don't support models like this on principle because I find them cyncial and to the active detriment to the game.

@Doktor-Mandrake
All of them

@scully1888 if you used your Nitro Bonus correctly on the Pro and Themed challenges as well as the daily challenges for an entire month it wasn't that hard

@ChompyMage Hold on. One minute you "did a few of the daily challenges every other day and easily finished the entire Nitro Bar", the next you're talking about Pro and Themed challenges and having to do the Daily Challenges every day for the entire month.

You're massively underselling how much work is involved to unlock everything, and – like I already said – I've already tried to do it, so just telling me it's no big deal doesn't fly when I already know from experience that it is.

This is dope. I just got this game recently, so it’s cool they have plenty of content for me to dive into.

I love that we keep getting new courses, it adds to the replay value of the game. That they're free is even better.

Unlocking the new characters/skins/karts by grinding is another story. In the last three Grand Prix, the first unlockable is usually easy enough to get, but the other unlockables take a LOT of grinding by doing repetitive challenges, like playing 12 laps of one course (really?) or online challenges which I can't even do since I don't have a PS Plus account.

I love the game but I wish there was a better way to unlock stuff. And I don't mean buying it in real money either.

So basically the star of the upcoming Grand Prix is Nina Cortex from Crash Twinsanity (Xbox, PlayStation 2) and Crash Bandicoot Fusion/Purple: Ripto's Rampage (Game Boy Advance), but the Crash Bandicoot Twitter account just showed Dr. Nitrus Brio from the classic trilogy.
Between this and the Reignited Trilogy finally being a thing on Switch, it feels a good time to be a fan of the original Crash and Spyro games who only converted to Nintendo stuff afterwards like yours truly.

@scully1888 seriously it really wasn't that hard. Just got to use your 50% Nitro Bonus wisely

@scully1888 Yeah that's why it's a joke when people act like you don't have to buy anything. Most people have lives and don't want to dedicate all their time to grinding away at this game.

@PBandSmelly Have you actually played the game?

There was NEVER a cheatcode for Wumpa Coins

There was also never any "price rise"

You're flat out lying to people on here lmao

@Doktor-Mandrake
I played for 60 hours. I noticed the prices rise as soon as the micritransactions came. They removed the cheats too. I know this stuff

@PBandSmelly The cheat codes do still work, haven't been removed.. You're flat out lying to people on here lol.

So clearly you don't know this stuff, and seeing as how NO ONE else ANYWHERE is claiming this, other than you.. Safe to say you're wrong.

Funny thing is, there was NEVER cheat codes in the game for Wumpa Coins, not even at launch.

Your first comment in this comment section is flat out lying, hilarious really.

@StormtheFrontier U should play the hell out of it without paying for microtransactions, coz now they already have your money for the main game.

@AnnoyingFrenzy supposedly after two months later from said Grand Prix(like with the Nitro Tour GP items).

EVERYONE "boycotting" this game
Or saying "i stopped playing this game after they added micro transaccions"

You all sicken me, this game let's you unlock EVERYTHING from just gameplay, you get a crazy amount of wumpa coins by playing casually, you get a daily X5 multiplier of coins and over that an X2 multiplier too over weekends, it's very, very easy to unlock things by just playing like 2 hours some days of the week, or Even less.

This game is AMAZING and you are all missing out on it for dumb "boycott"

Your loss.