So because you only play offline, you think PD should completely disband the whole online player base!? If you don't play online, why would it affect what you do in single player? You also think that Sport Mode should be exclusive to 10k players world wide (A+) by not allowing it to available to anybody who isn't A+? So how do people get to rank up to A+ if they aren't allowed to compete in Sport Mode, unless they are A+? I don't think you've really thought this through.
I do play online. When did I say I don't? Have done for years.
I've thought it through. And through. How would people get to A+, you ask? It's really not difficult to understand: Sport Mode, now Sophy is getting pretty good, would mean getting certain numbers of
clean wins against increasingly difficult/faster levels of Sophy, corresponding to E, D, C, B, maybe A categories (where say, ten clean podiums per category, out of last 12 race starts, allows progression to next category up; nobody goes down except for SR offences against the AI). Then, when A+ is reached (maybe A), proper player vs player races start, as now, but with merciless demoting to B (AI opponents again, 10 podiums to get back up) for all penalties, car contact, even repeated track violations. Job done, you have clean online racing for the fastest, cleanest people, and everyone else is enjoying good races (not being ruined by crazies) against the AI while simultaneously getting faster and being trained to race clean in a safe environment. It's really not difficult, and something along these lines is gonna come. Integration of online and offline with help from Sophy.
One of the reasons they've probably not bothered improving Sports Mode much is they know whatever they do, the crazies will still disrupt because that's why they play. Sophy offers a way to give people good increasingly human-like opponents while they improve their skills, or if they are incapable, for psychological reasons, of racing cleanly.
... employee to create 3 daily races each week and it certainly isn't a designated job which requires a rise in subscription for online players.
You know this? Is it inside info from the bowels of PD? I think you're wrong. Every minute of employee time costs PD. That's business.
...GT Sport would have been a flop because of people like you who shy away from online competition.
It was pretty much a flop until they chucked in the SP content. And I told you, I play Sport Mode; I just think it's rubbish as it is and won't get better until the crazies are isolated. I would like to play more but until it's better I probably won't, and I suspect many feel likewise. I just don't think PD owe online players any more than they get now for free; why should they do more when a) regular players play it anyway, and b) whether you (or I) play online or not, makes no difference to PD's income streams? PD isn't a charity.
Let me simplify things even further for you (try not to get distracted by whether, or how often, you imagine I play online):
PD gets income from users a) when somebody purchases the game (and its Power Pack).
Or b) when somebody buys MTX.
Whether people play online or not is irrelevant to profits, except that it obviously costs PD
something to pay an employee to create the three races each week. So I reckon we're lucky we get three, not one. Or none. They could easily say 'go create your own races in lobbies'. Many do.
