Mmm... no, I wouldn't say so.
I mean, I get why people hate it - 80% of prizes are low credit items, the whole illusion of chance when it's preset - and along with the invitations it's a top-seven complaint. Both wholly valid reasons to dislike it, I agree.
But it's a callback to previous titles and even at the paltry 5k rewards it's free money in a game where money is a grind or a microtransaction.
If you only got a 5k ticket every day you'd have 1.8m extra credits a year. Which is basically an hour of your life not grinding, so not much... but it would average out a bit higher, with more credits slightly more common than non-credit rewards (and many non-credit rewards saving you five/six-figure sums). Probably 4m+ in value and saved spending if my napkin calculation is near enough.
My problem with the ticket system is not related to money. If they took all the cash rewards out of the game, I wouldnt care. The only thing i'll do with those money tickets (and from the online time trials aswell) is saving them for the next update so farming back the money spent on the new cars and their parts takes less time. If that wasnt an option, it would just take more time but still no problem for me.
My problem with this system is locking cars and engine swaps behind rng without giving the player an alternative way of getting them with only one try a day.
Yes they had rng rewards in the past. But hasnt anything like this is.
In the past if they'd put 2 or 3 diferent unbuyable cars has a reward for an endurance race, you could repeat the race until you get the 3 cars. I remember very well farming seatle in gt2 for ford gt90.
Now they lock cars behind a 1% change and give 1 try a day. You dont have loss protection (slight increase in chance to rewards you dont have), and you can even have limited time to cash in your invites. If you are unlucky you could never ever get a car you want.
If PD put those brand invite cars in the psstore it would be more understandable than this. It would be greedy and slimy, yes, but at least you would understand they were trying to suck extra money out of players. But like this they dont gain anything. Nodoby gains anything. PD gets no money and players get pissed. Its uterly batheling to me that someone in PD thought this was a good idea.
Not even going to talk about engine swaps, that increase their number every update but, apart from the free one we get some updates, their probability still is low. Most of what I said about locked cars above aplies to engine swaps aswell. Also no loss protection. I already won the 787b engine 4 times.
But the icing on the cake has to go to that spinning wheel animantion.
Giving players the illusion they have a chance at a certain reward when its predetermined from the beggining. You always get the same reward. If you leave game and try again you still get the same reward but the ones you didnt win change.
That to me is manipulative and their lack of effort in trying to hide it leads me to believe PD has little respect for its community. They think players are dumb little sheep.
That one alone is worthy of the word "shameful"
After more than a year of gt7. The community almost universally 💩 on the ticket system, havent seen a single gt youtuber ever praising it. PD most likely knows this, but did little change to it.
Actually I'll take that back. I think they did change something in the beggining of this year. Until the end of last year I used to get mostly 4star tickets. Starting in January I started getting 3star tickets like 4 and 5 times in a row. Almost feels like they do the opposite of what the community asks.
But lets wait and see if the nenkai's info means they, finally, are course correcting.