So everyone starts on a level playing field.
I play the game against the game, what does it matter to anyone else that I am not starting from a blank starting point or not. Give me a choice and I can, and you can, and everyone else could choose whether they wanted to do that or not.
For everyone. Those receive a bonus from a game save would only get maybe $100k. Enough to buy a better starting car but a Gr.3 car. Previous Gran Turismo games had you start with $20k to buy a cheap car to start racing with and then you earn credits to buy better cars or upgrades.
So now if people do get a bonus for having a saved game, you're now also saying what it should be.
You usually started with a cheap, normally used car, unless you bought a special edition version at release with extra cars, and possibly some credits.
Already there were people not starting from the same point as most people. Er, so what! Again, give people the option to choose, and those who wanted to play the game as they have in the past can, others can choose how to play in a different way.
Fyi, even if I had my GT Sport garage transfer over to GT7, I would still play the game the same way as previous (full) GT games, doing the Licences, starting with a used car, normally a RX7, and working my way up. I want my garage to transfer to hopefully bring the liveries I have spent many hours designing, and don't want to disappear. I have already lost over a years worth of work to an online save being corrupted, and it wasn't a nice feeling. If people want to transfer their garages to to use in the Challenges or online races, so what, good luck to them. They have earned what they have.
The whole garage only works if all of the GT Sport cars make it into GT7.
If car x in my GT Sport garage was not a car in the GT7 car list, it doesn't obviously get transferred. Not that hard to implement I would have thought. Does car x = GT7 car list, no, not possible to transfer, next.
The whole point of Gran Turismo has been to earn credits to build your garage.
That is part of the 'point' of GT. What about; Driving the cars on different tracks. Racing cars in game. Racing people online. Taking pictures during replays. Taking pictures in the different 'scapes'. Creating Liveries. Customising cars. Challenges. Licence tests. There are many aspects of the game beyond just collecting a large number of cars. Again, giving people the option to transfer, or not, what they have earned or created in GT Sport, gives people the option to play how they like.
In the world of Gran Turismo, yes. This has been their formula from the beginning. Sure it could be done differently but that wouldn’t be a Gran Turismo game.
In your opinion. See above, people may have different ideas of what a GT game is to them.
With it looking like they are bringing back the single player part of the game as well as GT Auto, I would bet that they are combining classic Gran Turismo with GT Sport. Having a player bring over their whole garage or gifting them $1 million credits is not how the game works. It does not start with the haves and have-nots. We all start at the same point with maybe a little bonus.
Again, I am playing against the game, what difference does it make to anyone else what I could/would choose to start the game with! "There is someone in the world not starting the game the same as me!" Grrr
Some games, specifically MLB The Show would give you some type of bonus for having a save from the last game version. They would give you a free pack of stubs or enough credits to buy a pack of stubs but they would not give you all of the players you earned or bought to use for the Diamond Dynasty .
Again, why does the next GT7 game have to stick to what any previous GT games has done from one version to the next, or how any other games do things.
You are obviously opposed to anything transferring from GT Sport, which is fine, even if I don't quite understand the reasons. I'm just hoping they give people options as to choose what they want to transfer, or not. In your idea of the way it should be, people can lose a lot of different stuff.
With my idea, people have choices what to use or lose. People tend to like options to choose how they play games.
