Silver Arrows
(Banned)
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- Brandon, MB
- Silver-Arrows21
I find it funny how some people want to posit GT7 selling well as somehow being proof that all the 'complaints' are somehow invalid - as if anyone with half a working brain isn't already aware that by virtue of being a PS exclusive title, GT7 could sell 10 million copies without much issue. But that doesn't take away from the fact that GT7 had an incredibly rough launch (and in fact, is still not out of the woods yet) and that Polyphony were very much intent on trying to see how far they could go with regards to regressive ideas. If it wasn't for the complaints, Polyphony were sure as hell intent on continuing the horrific, freemium economy GT7 launched with (and frankly, even with the changes, the likelyhood of Polyphony returning to it is high, considering they still haven't removed the microtransactions and have given no reason as to why they need to continue, at least other games with lootboxes/MTX controversies removed them and haven't gone back to them) and the complaints sure don't take away from the fact that GT7 is, at best, a sideways step from previous titles, and just continue to spin the tires in the same mold that GT4 set nearly two decades prior.
No matter how many times people want to jerk themselves raw that sales numbers trump 'complaints', they don't, the position GT7 finds itself right now is proof of that. Nor does it take away from people's real, and valid, desire to see the GT franchise be a better game, especially in the innovation and content front, instead of simply just doing the bare minimum and papering over everything else with blatant calls to nostalgia to the fanbase at large.
No matter how many times people want to jerk themselves raw that sales numbers trump 'complaints', they don't, the position GT7 finds itself right now is proof of that. Nor does it take away from people's real, and valid, desire to see the GT franchise be a better game, especially in the innovation and content front, instead of simply just doing the bare minimum and papering over everything else with blatant calls to nostalgia to the fanbase at large.