Me either, but then again I don’t grind the same race over and over for credits. The way I see it they are rebalancing it in preparation for new events that will be added in the future. I won’t be surprised if it gets changed again.
The progress isn't saved there either. I managed to gold the last one, but that didn't save.
Changing the weighting so it's not the smallest pile of coins EVERY SINGLE TIME would certainly be appreciated. Even the random tuning parts for cars I'll never want doesn't bother me anymore as, through all the tickets for the 39 Café Menus, Nat A & B Licence and the driving marathon literally every day since launch, I've only ever been given one. They might just as well not be there. I'd rather go back to GTS' Carousel of Despair!
You say greedy Sony, but I think this more of PD’s own doing than you would like to admit. No other first party Sony title have mandatory online connection and this level of micro transactions, not to my knowledge anyway. I just started playing Horizon Forbidden West a week or so before GT7 was released, and it’s great. No micro transactions, no issues, no mandatory connection. Just a great game. Same with Ratchet and Clank, Spider-Man Miles Morales and Demon’s Souls.
I’m no expert, but a point can be made in that there’s a lot of old-timers that are nostalgic for Gran Turismo. That target audience is a bit older, as the series is quite a bit older than the (R&C excluded maybe) games you’re mentioning.
And here's the worst part: when it backfires, the sales drop, the reviews plummet, active players drop below 25k a week and there's zero enthusiasm to Gran Turismo 8 as a result, Gran Turismo and Polyphony Digital will become next big IP that Sony mothballs.
I don't wish for paid DLC either. I expected a game like GT4 or GT5 content-wise. But it's not. The fact that we are getting free DLC that will give us more content i'm ok with. But i rather take paid DLC from time to time with DECENT content, then this MT bs.
Same thing happened to me. I'm relieved (and dismayed) that this was a PD issue not my console.
Absolutely, I am amongst those as well. They will not be getting a dime extra, all they had to do was be satisfied with me paying extra for the deluxe (which was already something I was hesitant on doing).
Or hearing about the grind and actually benefit the player. Not only by the payout but also the other artificial scarcity like the invitations.
Horizon Forbidden West, Ratchet and Clank, Spider-Man Miles Morals, and Demon's Souls shouldn't be perfect games either. But either way PD is a lowkey black sheep over their utter incompetence in gaming part of the game.
They bought Bungie because of their expertise in these kinds of games too.
Considering the amount MTX makes, it does makes sense why Sony wants live service games. even though its very very anti consumer
At least, I already have some of the cars I wanted. Only problem now, the LMP cars that were once 1mil, have skyrocketed to 3mil and I’m not that enthused to add them to my garage. Would get them just to have a higher class, for my custom races. I prefer Gr.4 and under. So, I could just not buy them.
GT is Sony's longest active IP. Polyphony are a first party studio and Kaz has been a major player at Sony from the beginning. You're right that it doesn't really matter whose decision this is.. it's near enough the same decision.
Not to mention GT7 is basically a game as a service and relies heavily on being online and the only way to receive the free DLC is by having an online connection. All these other games are not service based games. Most of the patches are not for free DLC they are for bug fixes and small content such as new armor for Aloy.
I personally think some of the budget that's frittered away on Polyphony would be better spent on making a PS5 WipEout and marketing it properly as opposed to a couple of banner ads here on the internet.
Let’s take the mandatory internet connection as an example. That was already a thing in GT Sport, to many people’s disgust. Not a single first party Sony game to my knowing has demanded a constant online connection in order to progress through the campaign/story since then, not until GT7. So is it feels to me like, if not micro transactions, then at least the mandatory internet connection is on PD, not Sony.
One feeds the other, the way I see it. Why are there no micro transactions in other Sony titles, other than for cosmetics and alike?
Well Wipeout is the only series I like more than GT, so this is music to my ears.
I understand, but GT7 is only here since weeks.
GT7's success is calculated by player numbers, if there is enough of a percentage of players that all of a sudden stop playing after the 1.07 patch. They will investigate and research what the possible culprit could be. No they won't assume that a percentage of players would have died at exactly the same time!I can't tell whether we're supposed to take this seriously or if this is a copypasta from reddit
Always Online was always at the start of GTS, back when PD were still planning to use the Paid DLC model rather than MTX. So i dont think its because of MTX.
