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Man I can't wait for PD to disappoint, YET again. So excited!!
Fail PD. Fail. Fail.
What the hell you got for dinner? Nuts? Lol
1.06 update coming april 7th!
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What the hell you got for dinner? Nuts? Lol
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Nuts and some beer. Hahahaha.
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Why would PD bother with something like this when almost nobody will use it. Sure, you'll probably have the option to rent one of those 86s to do a lap, but you'll never drive as hard as you do in game so you lap times in reality will always be slower. Plus, with all these camber bugs and whatnot you probably can't replicate the data exact in GT6.
I'm just hoping that something, SOMETHING, comes along with this, a bug fix or a new feature. There's no way they could hold up another update like this and say "we've done nothing about the bugs and promised features that everyone's talking about and have been waiting for a while now, but look at this Data Logger that ~0% of our gamers will use! All that's required is that you live near the selected 3 Japanese race tracks and own a Toyota 86 with $900 tool! We'll add more track and car compatibility in a future update!"
At this point, GT6 feels like the service Kaz was talking about, a game with an endless support timeline because it feels like it's going to take forever until something major happens to the game.
/rant and apologies for a long post
I'm just hoping that something, SOMETHING, comes along with this, a bug fix or a new feature. There's no way they could hold up another update like this and say "we've done nothing about the bugs and promised features that everyone's talking about and have been waiting for a while now, but look at this Data Logger that ~0% of our gamers will use! All that's required is that you live near the selected 3 Japanese race tracks and own a Toyota 86 with $900 tool! We'll add more track and car compatibility in a future update!"
At this point, GT6 feels like the service Kaz was talking about, a game with an endless support timeline because it feels like it's going to take forever until something major happens to the game.
/rant and apologies for a long post
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*Brings in popcorn, chips, pop and chairs to celebrate PD's update 1.06 of failure* That's how excited I am. This is going to be pure gold when PD fails again, haha, and all that rage towards them. Watch none of the stuff people are concerned with aren't addressed and features they want aren't added in this update. 
So so excited!
So so excited!
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. Me too so excited*Brings in popcorn, chips, pop and chairs to celebrate PD's update 1.06 of failure* That's how excited I am. This is going to be pure gold when PD fails again, haha, and all that rage towards them. Watch none of the stuff people are concerned with aren't addressed and features they want aren't added in this update.
So so excited!
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Yep , I will bring a bunch of beers and don't forget the vodka in order to forget again this pd failure mateJoin the party bud.
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I feel I should reiterate something as many people are conflating three distinct things.
Data Logger - analyses GT6 data to provide a ghost replay and a throttle/brake/speed trace. Requires: PS3, GT6, compatible data
GPS Visualiser - as above, but capable of receiving data from a compatible external source. Requires: PS3, GT6, compatible data
Sports Drive Logger - a telemetry recording box marketed by Toyota capable of exporting data. Requires: Toyota GT86, live in Japan.
You don't need a new car to use the Data Logger or GPS Visualiser. You - if you haven't taken GT6 back to the shop yet - already own everything you need to use them. GT6 owners shouldn't be kicking off.
Toyota buyers would be justified though. "What, we need to spend another £500 on this box and then another £200 on an old tech console and some poxy game just to see our lap on a TV?"
Data Logger - analyses GT6 data to provide a ghost replay and a throttle/brake/speed trace. Requires: PS3, GT6, compatible data
GPS Visualiser - as above, but capable of receiving data from a compatible external source. Requires: PS3, GT6, compatible data
Sports Drive Logger - a telemetry recording box marketed by Toyota capable of exporting data. Requires: Toyota GT86, live in Japan.
You don't need a new car to use the Data Logger or GPS Visualiser. You - if you haven't taken GT6 back to the shop yet - already own everything you need to use them. GT6 owners shouldn't be kicking off.
Toyota buyers would be justified though. "What, we need to spend another £500 on this box and then another £200 on an old tech console and some poxy game just to see our lap on a TV?"
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They don't have a comms department because everyone at PD* makes the game and their 'owners' handle all communications, PR, marketing and press.
We're at the same point in the food chain as any other games news site - we all get the same press releases from SCE though we typically deal with SCEE and SCEA, not SCEI. In this instance we haven't had a press release - and notice that the Europe and North America official sites don't carry this news - but the above information is pretty clear from it. I just don't know where people get the impression you have to buy a £30k car in Japan to use GT6's Data Logger or the GPS Visualiser.
*I imagine there's a guy in each department who also has departmental comms responsibility and a small team that have to talk to SCEI, but only Yamauchi speaks from PD to the outside world. And he only does so at SCEI events with SCEI handlers and his words are carefully edited for SCEI press releases
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If 1.06 contains *nothing* (and it will) can we get a separate "crying and whining" thread only for that ?
Y'know to streamline the flow of rage and disappointment.
It truly may be the most useless update in history of gaming - it deserves a spot.
I say Kaz went ku-ku. Happens in music and movies - after a while a good artist release the most crappy album or movie ever made - the kind of sound that curl your eyebrows. Kaz may be in similar state of mind.
The moon missions were the first indication of that.
Y'know to streamline the flow of rage and disappointment.
It truly may be the most useless update in history of gaming - it deserves a spot.
I say Kaz went ku-ku. Happens in music and movies - after a while a good artist release the most crappy album or movie ever made - the kind of sound that curl your eyebrows. Kaz may be in similar state of mind.
The moon missions were the first indication of that.
This is correct as far as I can understand, but use of GPS Visualiser will still be extremely limited to begin with, whether it's us driving a car personally to get the data or otherwise. Even if someone else does upload the data it's still restricted to one or two cars to start with and three tracks. It'll be quite some time before someone takes any car, on any real track, and uploads the data to the internet for us to use.
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While you're right, as it stands right now there's a severely limited amount of sources to get compatible data from. Namely the half dozen people with a GT86 and the tool who live near the tracks. We rely on them to generate the data and upload it to the internet before we can even make use of it.
It's a fairly long chain of events, some of which are pretty unlikely, that are required for Joe McSchmo to make use of either the Data Logger or the GPS Visualiser. Unless PD/Toyota/Nissan dump some data out onto the web, which would be nice.
I expect the hacking of the Data Logger and GPS Visualiser formats to begin more or less immediately, because otherwise they're largely useless. Technically, they have uses. Practically, I think people will struggle to find anything fun to do with them. At least until the formats are hacked and people can start making their own time trials, course guides and whatever else.
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I think the feature can only work, if PD ask racing drivers to collect data and if PD makes a programm external or within GT6 to share the data. Schulze Motorsport is currently racing at the 6 hours nurburgring in germany. Do we know when the nurburgring will be available or if they are collection data?
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Were not getting better sounds, were not getting better looking standards, but we are getting something that has no use to anyone but real race car drivers. I want to go fast said Ricky bobby. PD replied grab some wood there bubbha ya got to crawl before you walk!
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Unless the plan was to release something else in April, as it almost certainly was for February and March. Possibly they've had the Data Logger/Visualiser done for some time, and have been holding it for the Toyota Logger release, as would be sensible.
Now they're caught short. They're aware that the community is turning against them, they need to throw something out, anything. The Data Logger/Visualiser can't be used even for a couple of months, but it shows the fans that they're still working hard.
I seriously hope that's not the logic. If there's no data/gameplay released alongside the Data Logger/Visualiser, I'd have to assume it was though. It would seem pointless to release it if it can't be used for anything, unless the release itself is the important thing, not the feature.
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I think pd are working hard on GT7 prologue... and that get's me excited. I'm buying a ps4 when that hits. We all know there standards look horrible but pds premium cars are the best in the business, down to the coil springs. I'm ready for better graphics i don't know about you guys but pd don't owe me ****, i got my moneys worth out of GT6 with the badboy G27 six speed. They need to let last gen go it's winding down.
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Sigh, another one. Ignored the question they quoted and labeled me as someone with a tantrum. That's what happens when you don't have an answer. Yes I can read just fine, just a little slow at it. Now if you did your research you'd would be able to answer the question in the quoted post: Who is suppose to use the feature: you or race car drivers? Let me make sure I'm clear here, the feature = GPS Visualiser NOT Data Logger.
If there wasn't a mention of you (the public) using it then you'd be 100% right, end of discussion. But alas it doesn't. That's my point and I'm sure many others. I sure hope they don't take the same route with say Course Maker.
Can you point me to the part I said we don't need this ever? I'm pretty sure it was more like "Something we don't need right now". If your going to quote me, quote the WHOLE quote. There's no complaining here from me, just trying to make out the logic of some people. Release a feature so few can use (I'm not speaking about the Data Logger), over features most liked over at the Suggestion Section.
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