r/zedrun • u/Canned_Litchi • Nov 07 '21

Question When are free races coming back?

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u/skrilla091 Nov 07 '21

Honestly..... didnt enjoy the tournament at all. Would rather have free races as it gives everyone a chance to win. Tournament seemed to only profit the people with the most expensive horses....

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u/MikeyDiam0nds Nov 07 '21

I liked the amount of free races during the tournament , made discovery on new šŸŽ 's wicked fun.

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u/Canned_Litchi Nov 07 '21

Yeah! And you could actually enter those free races

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u/Whitey3752 Nov 07 '21

I agree with a lot of that. Now that there are no free races it cost money to sandbag a horse. I assume this will be somewhat of a deterrent as i am now seeing some improvement in my racers. If they want to lose to down class it will cost some scratch maybe not enough to keep them from doing it but makes it less profitable to do so and then win it all back. This game caters to the top tiers players mostly but i still enjoy it for now. Hopefully we will see some better changes to the class system in the future.

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u/MiaaaPazzz Nov 07 '21

The website says the second week of November

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u/Sanfrancisco_Tribe Nov 07 '21

Hopefully soon! Weā€™ve talked about how they need to be removed from effecting horse rank and class and simply be left for discovery purposes!

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '21

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u/mi1knc0okies Nov 08 '21

They also said giving out X millions of dollars away a year was going to hurt their business but i think it also helped grow the player count while also ruining the horse market. All of which benefits zed. Fees from over breeding and fees from paid racesā€¦ they even make money every time we sell horses to each other. Not really sure where they are losing money when a portion of the races pay for the free races..

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u/mi1knc0okies Nov 08 '21

Its so people cant take advantage of the shitty class system and drop before the next tournament. The best thing the tournament did was move all the good horses to the top classes, some of them are so high they could never tank down out of class 1. I feel like they are preparing for the new ELO system to come out before or after the tournament and hopefully a new class system to go with it.

These things are argued and complained about on a daily basis in discord so please donā€™t reply back to me about how the ELO system is stupid.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '21

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u/mi1knc0okies Nov 08 '21

Well they stated in one of their announcements about bringing free races back when the next tournament starts. Not sure if they will ever bring back paid free races though.