Lotteries pay out to the winners, these competitions don't. It would be the same if they processed the competitions.
Yes but your argument is based on a temporary situation, which may or may not be resolved. What I was explaining was that the premium competitions are one of the tools used to promote the purchase of new game content, along with ranked racing e.g. you need a current Gt3/DTM25 skin to race on many ranked servers, even if you own older ones.
Yes, I understand that the concept of the premium competitions and new content. I'm just pointing out the marketing error of having a competition with new content that doesn't pay out. If they only processed the competitions it would be a wise strategy, but at the moment it's just illogical to have new content in premium comps. Ranked races are a different thing of course.
Can confirm. I've done, picking up cars or tracks I had yet to get because I wanted to participate in an event. The reason KWS have let this evaporate might be anything. Maybe their VRP handout system is on the blink, or Captain Coffee is taking his long-delayed sailing trip around the world, or maybe nobody in the office feels like doing it. Could be anything really, as no one from the company has seen fit to comment. The disgruntled can often be mollified by honest and timely communication. I'd even say they could have been out in front of it before this thread took a turn. Despite the posts, I'm not all that bent out of shape over it. It's rare that I win (random draw), and the VRP is not among my top reasons for participating. Drivers like Denis however have more reason to feel hard done by, as he wins just about every competition he enters, so must have a stack of it coming his way.
A bit late now but the lmdh at spa competition is actually fixed setup while not being marked as such. Couldve saved myself 10 days of keeping an eye on it and contemplating whether i should join had i known that earlier