I actually did a bit better, but only because I stuck to the higher payout events. Though that was due to the fact I haven't completed those yet. Even at 200k per hour, that still doesn't quite feel satisfactory when that means I can only do the longer events if I want more money.
This clearly doesn't work and it's not going to stop people from doing the same race over and over again.
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With that said, I had some thinking to do and I honestly believe Kaz in that he changed the payouts to make it so we don't grind. The problem is that his ideal solution is stupid. But that's what I expect, every GT game in the past 10 years; I've seen Kazunori Yamauchi make changes that almost NEVER make sense. He's never given me the vibe that he's a conventional nor a rational person. More like someone with their head in the clouds, but not looking at the current reality.
In his head, changing the payouts like this would force players to try other events until the next update where he adds more events over time that might have better payouts, but could also be longer than what we have now. I bet there could even be a better grinding method he'll overlook in that update. Then, they'll be more events in later updates and so on like in GT Sport. The payouts are small, because he wants people to take forever to get these cars, because in his mind; that makes collecting the cars more special. He wants us to spend years earning money to get these cars instead of having them all within a year.
Which is what makes this so stupid, most players do NOT want to spend years collecting every car in the game and they shouldn't have to. They want to enjoy each car within a reasonable time frame, taking eons to get a Ferrari 330 P4 is not a good idea. That's what he will not realize because he's too stuck in the clouds to know that players don't think the way he does. Enjoying cars is different for everyone, some want them so we can just keep enjoying the car years on end, NOT take eons to do that. What his vision for GT7 is will backfire, people will and ARE losing interest in this game.
The weird thing is that I can see some the concepts he has in place working for GT7, but the implemented so poorly that it's just going to aggravate people more. I of course can put up with it being me, but more rational people than me will not and aren't. I see it in this thread, other threads, and other websites including metacritic. Kaz, to make people stop grinding, you need to have proper rewards that match the effort other events require. 10 lap races should give me either higher payouts than now or what we have now plus a high-value prize car. That's why people grind, they're not getting the rewards that match the effort in other events.
