When you go to purchase the car, is there a button to buy it with $200? I'm actually curious because I've barely actually noticed any of the "forceful" microtransaction buttons.
I guess we should think ourselves lucky we don't have to pay for fuel with realistic prices.
Fuel microtransactions sponsored by Shell.
Where did you drag "forced" from? Them goalposts are growing legs.
That would add a lot of realism, Kaz should be thinking about that, and there could be a banner pausing your race "You're running low on fuel, would you like to buy some with a small MTX of would you rather pit to refuel?" (and the pit length would be then doubled to give more incentive to go MTX)
People are saying the game is designed around having to buy credits with real money when it's clearly not.
"It doesn't affect me therefore it's not a problem" famously being a logical argument for the ages. Must be hard to score when the goalposts on the moon.
It's truly staggering that people still think, in 2022, that microtransactions aren't an extensively researched behavioral concept with several works published on the matter from both the side of publishers implementing into their games and the side of mental health experts. And it's practically obscene that (in the week where they lowered race payouts specifically targeted at the ones that net you the most money and they introduced two cars into their FOMO car dealership with prices that would be virtually impossible for people to get for anyone who hasn't basically taken three weeks off from work to do maximum payout races over and over again) people are still assuming the position to act like PD is a completely passive entity in the process of whether people are willing to buy the microtransactions they put in the game. Or is it just because it's poor confused PD who would never set a foot wrong if they weren't doing so on accident?
You surely played different RPGs than me, 20 hours is nothing in some games. You know how rare some things were in like Diablo, there was a Rune for example just a handful of people actually achieved to get. So the thing is this was by luck (Droprate), but the result is the same: You bought a game with content in it that you probably never got you the chance to use, and if you were lucky you had to grind really hard.
80 hours wouldn't be enough to get you the 4 most expensive cars in the game.
It's useless to speculate on what the game might be, but what we have now is a game that was already extremely grindy compared to past games in the series, which was then updated 2 weeks after release to pretty much double the grind. What we have is a statement saying it will be addressed. What we also have is a game that has already shown that it was built on MTX.
Developers that aren't pushing microtransactions aren't worried about their players earning enough credits to buy a McLaren F1 in under 10 hours. How much of the design focus was on microtransactions is up for debate, but there's strong evidence that it's a pretty big part of their economy.
Good for you. Your personal experience doesn't mean anything compared to the objective facts about how we can see the game systems have been put together.
Right. They intend to let people do what they want with regards to purchasing microtransactions. If they want to buy 10, they intend to let them.
By using myself as an example, I was trying to explain how the microtransactions aren't at the forefront like they are in mobile games and f2p games.
As in any other Gran Turismo. You would only buy many of cars if you grind furiously. Yes, there is still lot of content missing that should earn more money than the current races available. At least considering there aren't races requiring any of the International Licences or the Superlicence.
"they're not forced on you", true, but the Top Up function is always there. On the main menu you can select the Credits and top up, but cannot scroll across and click your car, nor driver mileage. After every race the option is there. It is subliminal. I will never "top up" because I am a cheapskate, but it is definitely at the forefront.
The in-game economy design points to being designed around a MTX approach. That a cap is put on how many 'free credits' you can have, but not on paid ones, and we then have two Cr.18+ million cars in the Legendary dealership at once makes the intention quite clear, as the sheer grind required to obtain both via gameplay is staggering (40+ hours) given the short window before they cycle out.
Part of the rational behind PS5 titles being $70/£70 was to avoid them becoming 'cash grab microtransaction filled hellscapes', and that comes directly from the creative Director at a Sony first party studio!
They are present on the PS5 dashboard when you highlight GT7, a link to your Credit balance is on the home screen and when you select it you are offered the option to buy them, whenever you earn money via a roulette spin (having just missed a car) you are offered them, whenever you buy a car you are offered them. In terms of design, for a full price first party studio, they are pushed on you consistently and repeatedly. It's almost impossible to use the game as intended and not be offered them repeatedly.
So you completely ignored the list from Imari then?
What is a "normal" pace, in this case? A pace roughly equivalent to past GT games, like say, GT4?
No? It's just not very relevant if you're not on the bandwagon. The things that are supposed to be hard to obtain, are believe it or not, hard to obtain.
I play the game most days of the week and haven't finished it yet. If people finish it right away, then fine but either play other aspects of the game or wait. It's not even been out a month yet.
This is the second time today I've seen this argument, and I've still not got an answer to my question around it, so let's see if you know.
