Which is not exactly unheard of either. Both are very typical things in this industry, especially of late. Whatever the reason for not being finalized is irrelevant really, it can be a multitude of things, and doesn't change the fact that we more or less get more cars on launch then when the initial information releases. Even more so when the information is released half a year before release, or even longer.
"What the hell is a Suzuki Cappucino?"
It becomes quite difficult to promote if you don't show at least some cars. I don't envy the ad agency that has to come up with the line "More than some cars from famous brands like that one you know, including the incredible one everyone loves" during a TV spot in which everything is either out of focus or a blur (or both) and makes no distinguishable sound.
Speaking of Lotus... looks like it won't return in GT7. So sad... loved the Elise & Esprit. And even the german counterpart, the Speedster is absent with the whole of Opel/Vauxhall.
I feel like with subsidiary brands it's more up to the parent company whether they're in or not, and less a choice of PD (or other devs). So for example if VW want to promote Skoda models in the game they'll ask them to include them, otherwise they'll probably see most value in just promoting VWs in a video game, or other subsidiaries.
I see possibilities in Motorsport as well. Skoda had a good presence in rally during the GT6 era. We don’t get to see certain cars for a while. I understand Skoda isn’t as global as the other members of the VW family, but there’s Bugatti. Not sure if being in GT is going to help sales. Not about you being wrong or right. I agree with you about who will make the call to include cars. We’ve learned some reasons, about why cars are not included/missing in GT, over the years(Lotus, Caterham, Volvo, SCG, etc.).
If you want to go this way though, tabletop RPGs (and pretty much all RPGs) provide some story and structure around the player. If you're playing D&D, you're not thrown into a random town at a random time and you just do whatever. You're there because the DM or scenario writer has something interesting put together, and it's your job as a player to go and interact with that. Your story has the chance to become interesting specifically because you're in an environment where there are interesting things to do.
With cars being named like that (same issue with the BMW M6 GT3), it worries me that we won't get to have different livery variants as separate cars (Forza-style) and that I also worry that we won't get other licensed liveries as default liveries on its color selection in Arcade Mode and any of the three dealerships. These cars are technically not duplicates even if they're the same car as they represent another racing team and could have minor performance and/or aesthetic differences.@Harsk100 A very old stuff, but it seems that your suggestion to merge certain car aspects as options is implemented in GT7 at least in Livery, with the Super GT cars being named like this:
I'm hoping for the livery variants to be provided as the color selection of the race cars. GT-R Super GT (as it appeared on GTS), with the car being named "GT-R GT500 '08" with "Xanavi Nismo/Motul Autech/Yellowhat YMS Tomica/Calsonic Impul/Woodone Advan Clarion Livery" as color selections. Though for Castrol Tom's Supra, well I guess it won't have other livery as color selection (though I hope for that), as it's the only '97 GT500 Supra in GT so far. That's what I think is the best for implementing race, but not take up more place, though iirc it's harder to implement due to sponsorship, and I'd still prefer livery variants as separate cars rather than only one race car due to it having same performance and have Super GT races consist of only dozens of Xanavi Nismo GT-R '08.
Haha exactly the image I had in my head@Harsk100 A very old stuff, but it seems that your suggestion to merge certain car aspects as options is implemented in GT7 at least in Livery, with the Super GT cars being named like this:
Don't know if I did get about what you're saying but how about something such as GT Cafe where to you it'd feel like forcing collecting as a gameplay mode?
Gotta say that not having an occupation in a prestigious company or anything comparable doesn't necessarily make one inherently worse than those who do, or that they know nothing. I think that those kind of people, transformative fans, have what it takes albeit only in idea, but not necessarily about the computing skills to realize those, and those people are ordinary citizens without a reputation to name (or huge number of suggestions too) so they can get overlooked more by companies or such. Don't know if this relates, but I think an example is how most of game's adaptations like movies are done by companies with no passion regarding the media, making them a terrible adaptation, while transformative fans (can be those who make fanarts, or well-received fanfics, etc.) will probably handle it better due to their passion, but don't have the publicity or occupation for that. making them more overlooked.
In GT5 and GT6, those livery variations counted as separate cars (with effect on the final car count), including the base models. The justification was "there was no livery editor and they had (very) slight differences between eachother".
Because not all liveries made by player will be about Super GT (of course, it's good for players to have freedom about what liveries they'll create), and for the previous one, having only 1 Super GT car per brand would make the races for example, only consist of dozens of Xanavi Nismo GT-R '08s, which is obviously isn't true. A petty one, but using user livery which aren't all about Super GT can also make the races (for offline event for example) to not be authentic. If they can manage to create the name that uses GT500 and year, better use that for a chance to put liveries as color selection, rather than just for "this now can be edited in Livery Editor", where even the ones in GTS iirc was able to be edited too, with keeping the original livery name.
I honestly doubt that they'll let us choose a different pre made livery for the car considering that in the pre-order page for GT7, the car is listed as Toyota Supra GT500 '97 (CASTROL TOM'S).@Harsk100 A very old stuff, but it seems that your suggestion to merge certain car aspects as options is implemented in GT7 at least in Livery, with the Super GT cars being named like this:
