This is a review from the point of view of a casual and just a bit competitive driver (Drive rank: B, Sportmanship Rank: S).
I pre-ordered the game, and I played almost every day enough miles to get the daily gift car (789 days logged on; 58560 miles driven). During the first 2 or 3 months, I used to sell the cars I bought if they became repeated after getting them with the daily gift car. Then I decided to never sell any car, because that's a waste of credits and time.
A few days ago I finally bought the last car to complete the collection. Now I have 1100 cars. 268 were bought with credits and milage points, and 832 cars from daily car gifts, mission rewards and pre-order cars. From a credits point of view, the 268 cars I bough cost $264,313,510 (but I spent $285,416,580 because I bought more cars and sold some of them, losing $21,103,070 in the process). The 832 gift cars cost $293,965,828. (Yes, I've made a spreadsheet with every car cost, and these are accurate numbers). From a time spent point of view, I don't remember how much time I spent before the "Nostalgic 1979 Race 2" mission was added to the game (probably 100 hours); but after that race was added in an update, I played every day 2 times (enough to miles to get the gift car and $480,000 in clean races). Usually it takes 6:47 minutes to complete that 2 laps La Sarthe race, so with loading times, I spent another 100 hours playing. I have to say that before that race, there was a bug in some circuits (Nürburgring Nordschleife) which allowed you to cheat by entering the pits in reverse. If you did that with certain low speed car, vs GT1 cars in a custom race, you get some credits fast. I'm not proud of it, but I cheated to get some credits (not much because I had not time to do that, and they patched it). So, without that credit boost, it surely would have taken many more hours to get the credits to buy all cars.
So, was it fun playing the game with the objective to get all the cars fast? Hmmm... no, mostly not fun. I like to play time trials, and some online races. Those modes give you very few credits. Playing 779 times the same race, is not fun at all. And the daily gift car doesn't give you the really expensive cars. It gave me the Ferrari 330 P4 '67 ($20,000,000 car) the first month after released the game. Then they added cars to be bought from the PS Store with real money; and the daily car gift never gave me a care more expensive than $1,800,000 (a Lamborghini Countach LP400 '74). The game started to feel like a free to play game, where you have to play hundreds of hours to unlock things, or pay real money for them (but I already paid real money to buy the game).
After many hours played, did I get the platinium trophy? No, there are 3 throphies that requires you to perform very well in online races. I'm a low "B", sometimes high "C" driver (always "S" in sportmanship); and I'm always matched to play with at least 2 or 3 players better than me. I cannot get those throphies, I won't be a better driver, and I think those trophies are unfair.
The game includes a livery editor, which is great. Sharing and downloading liveries is easy, but searching for liveries made some months ago is difficult. In the last game update, they removed some official decals, which turned in some car liveries "damaged" (if you edit them, you lose those decals, and the livery becomes incomplete). Also, I would have liked more to select the color of the car, or the livery, after I select the car before a race. Having to go to the home screen to change the car livery is annoying. Having to buy many cars of the same model, to have different liveries on them, is insane.
One thing that worries me a lot, is the always online model of this game. I'm really afraid of what could happen when the game servers go offline forever. Will I lose my liveries? Will I be able to save my progress? I won't be able to race online, but will all the shared content be inaccessible too?
Every game has errors/bugs, and GT Sport is not an exception. The problem is that most game companies have a way to get those bugs reported by players. In this case, I don't know how to report a bug. I reported some bugs in this website, but were they read by the developers? There is a bug with the chase camera, the "Chase view camera sensitivity" loads the default value instead of the saved value. It's a day 1 bug that they never fixed. It is a really easy to fix bug, it may take a few minutes to fix it. But they don't seem to be aware of it, and there is no way to tell them. Incredible!
In conclusion, the game is very good, but it has some things that bother me. Now that I have unlocked all cars, I will be able to play any race I want, and I will enjoy it more. But if you are a more or less new player in this game, and you want all cars unlocked, it's not a good game. When you see in the daily gift car roulette 3 super expensive $20,000,000 cars, and 1 N100 cheap car, and magically it suddenly stops in the N100 car; you know it's a free to play game model (it happened at least 3 times to me), and it is unfair if you paid full price for this game. Getting all the cars, nowdays, may take more than 250 hours. It doesn't make sense to me. I like games that take up to 30 hours to unlock the main content of the game, and more hours to unlock special badges and things that show how much you played the game.
I pre-ordered the game, and I played almost every day enough miles to get the daily gift car (789 days logged on; 58560 miles driven). During the first 2 or 3 months, I used to sell the cars I bought if they became repeated after getting them with the daily gift car. Then I decided to never sell any car, because that's a waste of credits and time.
A few days ago I finally bought the last car to complete the collection. Now I have 1100 cars. 268 were bought with credits and milage points, and 832 cars from daily car gifts, mission rewards and pre-order cars. From a credits point of view, the 268 cars I bough cost $264,313,510 (but I spent $285,416,580 because I bought more cars and sold some of them, losing $21,103,070 in the process). The 832 gift cars cost $293,965,828. (Yes, I've made a spreadsheet with every car cost, and these are accurate numbers). From a time spent point of view, I don't remember how much time I spent before the "Nostalgic 1979 Race 2" mission was added to the game (probably 100 hours); but after that race was added in an update, I played every day 2 times (enough to miles to get the gift car and $480,000 in clean races). Usually it takes 6:47 minutes to complete that 2 laps La Sarthe race, so with loading times, I spent another 100 hours playing. I have to say that before that race, there was a bug in some circuits (Nürburgring Nordschleife) which allowed you to cheat by entering the pits in reverse. If you did that with certain low speed car, vs GT1 cars in a custom race, you get some credits fast. I'm not proud of it, but I cheated to get some credits (not much because I had not time to do that, and they patched it). So, without that credit boost, it surely would have taken many more hours to get the credits to buy all cars.
So, was it fun playing the game with the objective to get all the cars fast? Hmmm... no, mostly not fun. I like to play time trials, and some online races. Those modes give you very few credits. Playing 779 times the same race, is not fun at all. And the daily gift car doesn't give you the really expensive cars. It gave me the Ferrari 330 P4 '67 ($20,000,000 car) the first month after released the game. Then they added cars to be bought from the PS Store with real money; and the daily car gift never gave me a care more expensive than $1,800,000 (a Lamborghini Countach LP400 '74). The game started to feel like a free to play game, where you have to play hundreds of hours to unlock things, or pay real money for them (but I already paid real money to buy the game).
After many hours played, did I get the platinium trophy? No, there are 3 throphies that requires you to perform very well in online races. I'm a low "B", sometimes high "C" driver (always "S" in sportmanship); and I'm always matched to play with at least 2 or 3 players better than me. I cannot get those throphies, I won't be a better driver, and I think those trophies are unfair.
The game includes a livery editor, which is great. Sharing and downloading liveries is easy, but searching for liveries made some months ago is difficult. In the last game update, they removed some official decals, which turned in some car liveries "damaged" (if you edit them, you lose those decals, and the livery becomes incomplete). Also, I would have liked more to select the color of the car, or the livery, after I select the car before a race. Having to go to the home screen to change the car livery is annoying. Having to buy many cars of the same model, to have different liveries on them, is insane.
One thing that worries me a lot, is the always online model of this game. I'm really afraid of what could happen when the game servers go offline forever. Will I lose my liveries? Will I be able to save my progress? I won't be able to race online, but will all the shared content be inaccessible too?
Every game has errors/bugs, and GT Sport is not an exception. The problem is that most game companies have a way to get those bugs reported by players. In this case, I don't know how to report a bug. I reported some bugs in this website, but were they read by the developers? There is a bug with the chase camera, the "Chase view camera sensitivity" loads the default value instead of the saved value. It's a day 1 bug that they never fixed. It is a really easy to fix bug, it may take a few minutes to fix it. But they don't seem to be aware of it, and there is no way to tell them. Incredible!
In conclusion, the game is very good, but it has some things that bother me. Now that I have unlocked all cars, I will be able to play any race I want, and I will enjoy it more. But if you are a more or less new player in this game, and you want all cars unlocked, it's not a good game. When you see in the daily gift car roulette 3 super expensive $20,000,000 cars, and 1 N100 cheap car, and magically it suddenly stops in the N100 car; you know it's a free to play game model (it happened at least 3 times to me), and it is unfair if you paid full price for this game. Getting all the cars, nowdays, may take more than 250 hours. It doesn't make sense to me. I like games that take up to 30 hours to unlock the main content of the game, and more hours to unlock special badges and things that show how much you played the game.
). At least for me, this is how I got all cars in the game. My Mini has something like 50.000 km on the clock now 
