You've said some pretty nasty things about a game creator, as quoted above, would be reported if others had said about you, yes you are a troll lad.
They are my opinions, born from observing how he interacts with fans, sites like this, and his general attitudes towards the industry. Are they brusque, and go for the throat? Sure, but that's how I see it and speak it. You're free to disagree, and if the mods believe I have broken the AUP, then they will be the arbiters of that. For now, Kaz isn't here, and I can speak my mind about my opinion on him.
Repeating the same opinions regardless what is said to you, for no furthering of a conversation but just to hear yourself talk, yes you are a troll lad.
What else am I supposed to do? Micro transactions are bad, full stop. Polyphony has now had three games where they've added micro-transactions either post launch, or from the start, and this time around, one can very easily wonder where it leads with regards to in game economy, and if stuff like the Hagerty's adjusting of car values in the Legend Cars pavilion and the continued hard 20 mil credit cap, alongside not doing much to push MT visibility off to the side like some people are suggesting you can do in the options are any indication, it seems to my cynical mind that Polyphony are testing the waters of seeing how far they can take the in game economy in the route of getting people to pay for micro-transactions in order to get the higher end of vehicles in the collection portion of the game, a part of the game they heavily advertised before launch.
More then anything else, what pisses me off more then anything else, and why I (and others) have repeated our opinions, is because of stuff like this...
I just don’t see why many are just so upset like this is the first time a company is trying to over maximize their profits??
which reeks, frankly, of huffing copium to try and make Polyphony out as somehow virtuous, or justified in their actions that they have done for three straight games now. Polyphony are a first party Sony studio - and Kaz is on the literal Playstation board. He, and by extension Polyphony, are not the plucky underdogs where not maximizing profits means death of the studio. GT7 could sell 100 copies and the game would still be supported well, and long, because Polyphony have gained that trust. Yet they still seem to want to test that trust with players of the game, by introducing tactics such as micro-transactions that most other developers they are directly competing with, specifically Turn 10 and Forza, have left behind long ago. But of course, that doesn't matter in the long run, because some people on this forum, who find themselves seeing red whenever Forza is mentioned even in a correct context, will make up literal falsehoods to demonize T10, Forza and Microsoft in general, yet will trip over themselves when Polyphony and GT do the exact same things, often times for much longer, and worse.
This is why I am frustrated and hostile. The very obvious hypocrisy present that seemingly, Polyphony is justified in doing stuff like micro-transactions for as long as they have, that it isn't a big deal, that you can just turn them off and they won't be a problem. When the actual reality of it all is crystal clear that they aren't justified in making these moves, not in the slightest, that it
is a big deal (and that the possibility of them adjusting the in game economy and car prices in order to push more people to buy micro-transactions) and that even turning them off from the options ultimately does little to hide them. More then the confusing and frankly unintuitive gameplay decisions, more then the absolutely shamoblic AI that only gets 'difficult', even on the highest settings, due to them being further spaced out then you are, this is what pisses me off. When Polyphony does obviously wrong, and
should be raked over the coals, but they aren't. And instead, are defended.
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