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- grrlpurple
The practice of driving a game economy to sell MTX for items that are already in a game that you pay full price for needs to stop and we need to drive the behaviour to stop. This is unacceptable greed.
GT has always been a car collecting game but now there is artificial scarcity with "Limited Availability" in the Used Car Dealership, "Invitation" only cars in Brand Central and "Limited Availability" rare and expensive cars in another lobby where PD have admitted prices can and will be revised regularly. Roulette tickets almost entirely always give me the smallest reward (one occasion excepted) and car prices can be prohibitively high - especially for casual players who do not have countless hours to dedicate to grinding.
One example, a 12 million credit car sitting in the exclusive dealership, would take me an age to grind for, all the time being tempted by limited time cars and expiry date invitations. A car that is in the base game that I paid for and based on the 2 million credits for £15.99 as MTX it would cost £95.94 to purchase - nearly a hundred quid for ONE digital car that was already in the game I paid for. This is obscene.
I don't mind a grind, it was expected in previous GT games, but without MTX the grind was well paced and acceptable. It prolonged the life of the game and made it enjoyable. Every part of GT7 looks like it is directly driven by the MTX economy. Turning GT into a cash cow not too dissimilar to GTAV. Disgraceful practice.
If GT7 was free to play then fine, it needs MTX to pay for the game.
If new cars were added for a MTX price as DLC then as much as it would suck, that is how games always were. If they are not priced properly then they will not sell. To drive an MTX economy in a full priced game - no. It's wrong and we should not support it. I will not pay another penny on this game. I almost regret buying it to begin with although I didn't know about the MTX economy in GT7 beforehand. Had I known I would have stayed away.
The only GT game I didn't buy is GT Sport, I bought all other main games including prologues. If this is the direction of GT then I will never buy another. I'm done.
GT has always been a car collecting game but now there is artificial scarcity with "Limited Availability" in the Used Car Dealership, "Invitation" only cars in Brand Central and "Limited Availability" rare and expensive cars in another lobby where PD have admitted prices can and will be revised regularly. Roulette tickets almost entirely always give me the smallest reward (one occasion excepted) and car prices can be prohibitively high - especially for casual players who do not have countless hours to dedicate to grinding.
One example, a 12 million credit car sitting in the exclusive dealership, would take me an age to grind for, all the time being tempted by limited time cars and expiry date invitations. A car that is in the base game that I paid for and based on the 2 million credits for £15.99 as MTX it would cost £95.94 to purchase - nearly a hundred quid for ONE digital car that was already in the game I paid for. This is obscene.
I don't mind a grind, it was expected in previous GT games, but without MTX the grind was well paced and acceptable. It prolonged the life of the game and made it enjoyable. Every part of GT7 looks like it is directly driven by the MTX economy. Turning GT into a cash cow not too dissimilar to GTAV. Disgraceful practice.
If GT7 was free to play then fine, it needs MTX to pay for the game.
If new cars were added for a MTX price as DLC then as much as it would suck, that is how games always were. If they are not priced properly then they will not sell. To drive an MTX economy in a full priced game - no. It's wrong and we should not support it. I will not pay another penny on this game. I almost regret buying it to begin with although I didn't know about the MTX economy in GT7 beforehand. Had I known I would have stayed away.
The only GT game I didn't buy is GT Sport, I bought all other main games including prologues. If this is the direction of GT then I will never buy another. I'm done.
