Regarding online - Of course I'm thrilled about the Nations and Manufacturer's Cup, but I'm most interested in the daily races. I want to know how many there will be at one time, how often they'll be rotate, and the ease of entry into them.
After I got the end credits in GT5/6, the seasonal events was where I enjoyed racing most, but they just weren't rotated enough. If the daily races are rotated two or three times a week, that'll more than deal with the gripes I had with seasonals.
I'd prefer to race against the AI in an offline race when I'm not racing online in a league with people I trust, than in a public lobby.
Why? Because, again in my experience, public lobbies are full of people who have no race craft or etiquette, and the races are almost always just short sprint races with no strategy involved.
I also don't want to just create single offline races that have no sense of progression.
I want to participate in a championship of races in various motorsport disciplines.
There must be others who feel this way?
There are plenty of others who feel that way also, and PD
have to be aware of that. From a technical stand-point, a career mode shouldn't be hard to include before shipping, so if they choose not to include it, there must be some underlying reason for that decision. There was also
this statement from E3:
Nobody has any idea what he meant by that, but while I wouldn't be bothered by a lack of offline championships, I still find it
very hard to believe that this game would ship without some form of offline race series. We know about the basic bones of the new stuff for GTS, but we are still missing a bunch of details that brings the big picture together.
Hopefully some journalist at TGS will just be blunt and ask, "Will there be offline racing series in GT Sport?"