XPOWER180
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I've composed a letter to SCEE. I couldn't find a direct contact address for PD but i'm sure this will find it's way there. Feelings are running strongly about version 1.07's restrictions and we can make as many polls as we want but i think it needs a more direct approach. Just finding a contact email for SCEE took me half an hour or so, they don't like being contacted! Hope it's ok and gets some approval from this forum, after all it's my sole intention to get our game back to how it was 👍
Hello, my name is ######. I’m an avid Gran Turismo fan and have purchased every single uk release to date gaining many years of pleasure from them. GT5 has been no different so far, it has bought a lot of pleasure. The game is far from faultless though; the lack of races in A-spec is baffling as are the poor rewards (both credits and XP). In effect, what you have created with GT5 is a game that relies upon you grinding away literally thousands of times on one circuit to gain enough XP to reach level 40 in order to purchase the prize car – the X2010. Of course, for those of us who have a life outside of the PS3 ( a family, a career etc) the gifting function was a wonderful method of gaining this car as well as many of the other machines on offer that are difficult to obtain. Indeed, a whole online community has been formed purely for trading such is the popularity and scale of this feature.
So, what gives you (or whomever makes such decisions) the right to remove the ability to trade cars over 1,000,000 credits? This is our game which we have all paid for with our hard earnt cash. By all means keep adding updates that improve the game but to remove a hugely loved function is just mean. What possible harm can enabling the function do to anyone? I don’t see how you can possibly justify to me or any member of the online gaming community how you have the right to impose restrictions upon our game after it has been released – surely you should be seeking to improve the game, not make a whole community angry? I was thoroughly enjoying this game but now i feel that i am being dictated to on how i can play MY game. You only made the game, it’s not yours - it’s the publics so therefore you have no right to restrict methods of gameplay that a community has established over the past quarter of a year. I for one will never ever purchase any future editions of GT; what’s the point if i’m going to be dictated to how i can play my game a few months after buying it?
Of course this letter could have been written by any one of the THOUSANDS of GT5 racers and traders that you have upset with this ridiculous update. I may be one man but i am positive that my words reflect the feelings of a whole community and therefore i ask you to take this email to the top – let Kaz, the game developer see it. We need the restrictions on gifting cars above 1,000,000 credits totally abolished as well as the restrictions between shared accounts on one PS3. Please see sense on this and remember who you made this game for. When it comes to a franchise such as this, can you really afford to upset so many loyal fans? The public will vote with their wallets a few years down the line when GT6 comes out. I think your sales will drastically suffer if we keep getting such backward steps as 1.07 delivered. So lets hope then that on March the 3rd instead of this backward step being re-implemented that you do the right thing by your loyal customers and give us back our full game to use as we want.
Thank you for taking the time to read this email,
Yours sincerely,
######
Hello, my name is ######. I’m an avid Gran Turismo fan and have purchased every single uk release to date gaining many years of pleasure from them. GT5 has been no different so far, it has bought a lot of pleasure. The game is far from faultless though; the lack of races in A-spec is baffling as are the poor rewards (both credits and XP). In effect, what you have created with GT5 is a game that relies upon you grinding away literally thousands of times on one circuit to gain enough XP to reach level 40 in order to purchase the prize car – the X2010. Of course, for those of us who have a life outside of the PS3 ( a family, a career etc) the gifting function was a wonderful method of gaining this car as well as many of the other machines on offer that are difficult to obtain. Indeed, a whole online community has been formed purely for trading such is the popularity and scale of this feature.
So, what gives you (or whomever makes such decisions) the right to remove the ability to trade cars over 1,000,000 credits? This is our game which we have all paid for with our hard earnt cash. By all means keep adding updates that improve the game but to remove a hugely loved function is just mean. What possible harm can enabling the function do to anyone? I don’t see how you can possibly justify to me or any member of the online gaming community how you have the right to impose restrictions upon our game after it has been released – surely you should be seeking to improve the game, not make a whole community angry? I was thoroughly enjoying this game but now i feel that i am being dictated to on how i can play MY game. You only made the game, it’s not yours - it’s the publics so therefore you have no right to restrict methods of gameplay that a community has established over the past quarter of a year. I for one will never ever purchase any future editions of GT; what’s the point if i’m going to be dictated to how i can play my game a few months after buying it?
Of course this letter could have been written by any one of the THOUSANDS of GT5 racers and traders that you have upset with this ridiculous update. I may be one man but i am positive that my words reflect the feelings of a whole community and therefore i ask you to take this email to the top – let Kaz, the game developer see it. We need the restrictions on gifting cars above 1,000,000 credits totally abolished as well as the restrictions between shared accounts on one PS3. Please see sense on this and remember who you made this game for. When it comes to a franchise such as this, can you really afford to upset so many loyal fans? The public will vote with their wallets a few years down the line when GT6 comes out. I think your sales will drastically suffer if we keep getting such backward steps as 1.07 delivered. So lets hope then that on March the 3rd instead of this backward step being re-implemented that you do the right thing by your loyal customers and give us back our full game to use as we want.
Thank you for taking the time to read this email,
Yours sincerely,
######
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Still, at least we have a few more days before GT5 is killed.
