Gran Turismo Sport Closed Beta Coming March 17: First the US, Then EU Region

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In short, pretty much everyone get's called out, Negative or positive. Although, from my experience, you get a lot more flak when being negative than being positive. One instance would be how people who are constantly pessimistic seem to get the most abuse and are called out the most, meanwhile the same people who are constantly optimistic(sometimes to a fault) seem to fall below the radar.

For the most part, I do agree with @TrevorPhilips. Some bits not so much, but he got the general gist of it. If someone is wrong there are plenty of members that will point it out, whether they are positive or negative.
 
I have a feeling the beta is gonna end up going to players with the most experience, YouTube accounts or testers. The common players are more than likely gonna be left out. Which I understand to an extent cause they know what to look for and such. But how about a demo for us common players? Idc if it's just 1 car and 1 track. Give all of us a chance.
 
doblocruiser
If for example this announcement of the beta would have been supported by an enhanced blogpost to explain the reasoning behind it, it would probably have been more acceptable.
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Isn't the reason that with the delay they had more time to set up the beta program?

doblocruiser
However they decide to pet themselves on the back by sorting out a beta completely out of nowhere and still leaving fans in the dark of where we are in terms of development process, new content and features. I simply don't understand their logic and what they are trying to gain.
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Well, we know that it's at the closed beta stage at the moment. :P
 
TrevorPhilips
I actually think there is quite a nice balance between the positives and negatives at the moment. It certainly isn't the negative echo chamber what has been attempted (and will be attempted again) by a very few, yet strangely dedicated set of individuals, in every 'downtime' between news this sub forum has seen since, forever. :lol:

As for the bold part, that is not true. When I stop by, and things are swinging to one extreme, I always call people out on their hypocrisy, bias, stupidity, and their general ignorance. Funny thing is, if I came here and read countless posts by similar individuals trying to create an echo chamber by wrongly touting the games superiority over all other games in the genre, I would be exactly the same with those people.

The point being, I feel GT has many faults, I feel GT does many things well. Do I think GT:Sport will be the best game ever? Nope. Do I think GTS will be the best game this year? Nope. But I do still think I will enjoy it, if I didn't feel GT was going to offer me something different I certainly would not be here now, reading and writing about it.

Lastly, I don't think people with negative opinions are a problem. They have had negative experiences with the game or PD and feel the need to express it. Alright it is sometimes dragged on way to far and I don't know what they expect to achieve by stating it here every day, as this site is no way an official outlet for Sony or PD. But it is their opinion none the less.

The real problem here for me (and I am going to take a guess it probably is for you too) is people with double standards and/or have an agenda towards PD/GT/Sony/Fans on the opposite end of the spectrum to themselves and try to mask these feelings behind a thin veil.

The good news is it's easy to spot! I'm paraphrasing now but here are some telltale signs everybody in the middle ground needs to watch out for. (and yes, I have seen very similar posts, by the same people, of every one of these examples below)

"C'mon PD, would it kill you to give us more information?"
*PD releases new information
"Pft, I don't believe a word Kaz says!"

"Those screenshots are truly awful"
*PD releases updated screenshots
"...... Bullshots!"

"Why can't we have feature X? It's in game Y"
*PD announces feature X
"OMG, that's nothing new! It's been in game Y forever!"

"If PD don't have a beta, I anticipate an online **** show at launch"
*PD announces beta
"Wow, their net code must be in an awful state!"

And my personal favourite....

"This is unacceptable! I am done with this game!"
*User continues to post almost every day for the next few months
"This is unacceptable! I am done with this game!"

Spot any of this and you quickly realise that their comments are not worth the space upon your screen. Also remember, there is the other (double standards/agenda towards other games/dev/fans) side to this coin.
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I feel ya bro'. My personal favourite is the guy who only drops in every couple of months to tell some people how wrong they are about posting their opinions on videogames they love or hate or whatever the case may be. Now that guy is a piece of work right? Kind of reminds me of this when I see it:

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synon
They said the original was canceled due to lack of time.
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Originally, the beta was canceled so they can get the game out by November 2016. Now, PD decides to host a closed beta, which shows that they actually may have a surplus of time (or they too don't have an idea of when GTS will come out so they might as well get a beta started.) PD works in mysterious ways, that's all I know.
 
MrWaflz55
My personal favourite being the "Do You Still Have Respect for Kazunori Yamauchi?" Thread. Some people have some growing up to do.
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They finally fixed the thread title? I do stiil have repect for Kazunori Yamauchi, by the way. :lol:

Anyways, looking forward to the Asian closed beta, if it ever gets announced. Because judging by this video, it looks like they've made a whole lot progress since E3:

 
I'm really looking forward to seeing the game "in the wild", so to speak. It's a beta, but that should be fairly indicative of the final game. And Polyphony has limited control over what will be shown to the public, so we'll presumably get lots of full resolution direct screen captures with direct sound. And lots of opinions on how the game actually feels in action.

I hope that rain and night are included at some point, so we can see them too.
 
Ameer67
Originally, the beta was canceled so they can get the game out by November 2016.
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Yep, there was a lack of time for the beta with the original release date.


Ameer67
Now, PD decides to host a closed beta, which shows that they actually may have a surplus of time (or they too don't have an idea of when GTS will come out so they might as well get a beta started.)
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I wouldn't have thought that they would have a surplus of time, and presumably the release date depends on how the beta goes.
 
No hate from me, just disappointment. I had such high hopes and it looks like they are no where near having a competitive game ready. Now they will have at least 2 runs of beta and Kaz already told us it takes a very long time to go from beta to release so it looks like the earliest we could see a release if they actually have a release ready game is near the end of 2017. Will it be out before PCARS2? Will anyone want it once PCARS2 comes out? Is there any point in GT Sport even being released now? It just seems like too little too late. I hope I'm wrong but it looks like PD have nothing.
 
7HO
No hate from me, just disappointment. I had such high hopes and it looks like they are no where near having a competitive game ready. Now they will have at least 2 runs of beta and Kaz already told us it takes a very long time to go from beta to release so it looks like the earliest we could see a release if they actually have a release ready game is near the end of 2017. Will it be out before PCARS2? Will anyone want it once PCARS2 comes out? Is there any point in GT Sport even being released now? It just seems like too little too late. I hope I'm wrong but it looks like PD have nothing.
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Seems like a safe bet that pCARS2 and FM7 will be out (or very close to it) before GTS. I hope they have something planned to differentiate themselves.

All three will have online championships of some description. pCARS has its incredible weather and live track. FM7 will have a mahooooosive car list. GTS has a nice photomode, but I'm hoping that they have something else special up their sleeves.
 
GTP_unkymo
I'm an EU PSN Beta tester. We've been told that we are automatically in the beta when in it starts in the EU.

Nothing yet about dates or NDA's or any other information.
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That's great! Could you write a link where it say that, please 👍
 
It could be the NDA is for the earliest phase.

Then again, there's no mention of a date for EU. Of course there's no more info if they don't have a date yet.
 
Scaff
The issue is that you come across as attempting to direct the tone of conversation and set what is and is not appropriate.

That's a mandate you don't have and yes you are coming across as hypocritical on this, you take issue with people complaining, yet frame your own complaint as 'observations'.

As such don't be surprised when that is pointed out to you.
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Here's my point of view.
The first post was an observation, nothing more.
The second post could be perceived as complaining, agreed.
But in my mind it isn't right to blend the two.

I see forumers attempting to direct the tone of conversation all the time.
I make no apologies for trying to pushing it in another direction.

And considering I had already stated that people are free to oppose my view, I fail to see how you determine that I was trying to set what is and isn't appropriate, let alone claim a mandate.

Saying that, I take on-board your replies, and will be more conscience of how my posts can viewed in future.

SlipZtrEm
You haven't broken any site rules — we're members of the community as well as members of staff. That means we take part in the same discussions as the rest of the folks here. 👍
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That's my error.
I should have been able to recognise that, but failed to do so.
At the time I thought I had dug myself a big hole and found myself on the wrong side of the law. :P
Thanks for the clarification. 👍


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To add a more topic related comment, I note the Japanese site of gran-turismo.com hasn't been updated regarding the news item of the beta test.
I'm not sure whether much should be read into that at this stage, but interesting nonetheless.
 
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