Err... no.
I always felt some pride when I finally was able to buy a car after a lot of grinding. How is it any fun to race in like 3 short races to get enough payout to buy the super expensive cars? Exactly, it is not.
I can also remember the online events in GT6 that sometimes paid you over a million in 30 minutes. Ridiculous. What's the point in that?
Grinding has to be exactly that: A grind. It has to consume time. It has to be hard. It has to be a bit boring.
Plus, with the 20 millions cars not being worth 20 millions anymore and the XJ13 so far being an unicorn (but still with a 35% discount), I really don't see any valid reason to boycott the game in the hopes to increase the payout. Plus, we will get more events in the future that might or might not have higher payouts.
You don't even need these cars, they're optional. It's nice to have them, sure, but complaining it takes too long to purchase them because you're impatient and don't want to spend some sweat into it, I consider this lazyness.
"Reasonable" is a pretty subjective thing. Some can play the game 6 hours a day, others can play 6 hours a week etc.
There needs to be a fair balance in the grind.
Right now only a few single player events have a good payout. Using the best credit per hour event right now, in order to buy all group3 cars it would be a 20+ hour grind(on track time) of the same race over and over and over. Some can do that in a few days, others a whole month, but one cannot argue that 20+ hours of the same race vs AI is astonishingly horrible, boring gameplay.
If one were to partake in Daily Race C exclusively, as it is now, it would take roughly 240 race WINS to have enough money to buy all group 3 cars. They are about 20 minute races so that is 80 hours on track. And I cannot stress enough, that is only if you WIN every single one of those races. Us mere mortals who place mid pack all the time this will easily be 180 hrs of daily C.
I get you like the game, you have a desire to defend it, but the game economy is in no way reasonable for even most die hards.
The fact PD very quickly went out of their way to nerf event payouts in game very clearly signals their intentions that they do not want people earning credits by playing the game, they want your money. Fair enough, but I will not give PD another dime, nor do I even have the will or desire to put that much time in the game just to unlock a single class of race cars. The rate I play the game it would take me a year and half to unlock only gr3 cars, oh, and none of this factors in every car will likely need 140K in tires......so make that 3 years before I have all gr3............
In B4: "Well, then buy credits"......NO!
