How quickly will PD respond to the criticism?

[Boxster]

Do you think PD will respond to the criticism in an adequate way?

 

[Com Fox]

Their response to the backlash was fancy business inoffensive talk for "We hear you but we don't care" so I doubt much will change course and they'll try to sweep the backlash under the rug

 

[alex511]

Not.

 

[gloriousg4]

As if.

 

[FoxMulder]

Depends on how loud it gets or if it impacts the game sales or something. This could be Sony forcing this stuff as they’re making a bunch of live service games. Kaz also seemed dismissive of the outcry in his statement.

A few years ago Forza Motorsport got blasted for lootboxes and MS removed them due to all the backlash. Doesn’t really seem like there’s as much heat over this though.

 

[soc123_au]

Kaz’s statement after the server outage shows that he still thinks he knows best. It may take a while longer for the penny to drop.

 

[Supaboost]

Never.

U can only hope Sony pushes Kaz out like they did Kutaragi, also move the development into Europe hopefully.

 

[Lux Klonoa]

Never.

U can only hope Sony pushes Kaz out like they did Kutaragi, also move the development into Europe hopefully.

And instantly fire all the hard-working devs in Japan who had nothing to do with this decision... Riiiiight. =/

Also, I honestly don't think it was 100% Kaz's decision (though I still blame him for going along with it). The person who you should be raging at is Jim Ryan as he's been making a lot of terrible decisions lately as CEO of SIE.

 

[Supaboost]

And instantly fire all the hard-working devs in Japan who had nothing to do with this decision... Riiiiight. =/

Also, I honestly don't think it was 100% Kaz's decision (though I still blame him for going along with it). The person who you should be raging at is Jim Ryan as he's been making a lot of terrible decisions lately as CEO of SIE.

Who said fire them, is your Kaz defence so out of touch you need to make stuff up. They can still work on the game while competnant people with actual vision call the shots from the epicenter of the racing/car world, Europe.

Yes yet all those bad decisons of Jim Ryan had no effect on Horizen Forbiodden west, Nor will they the Next God of War or just about any ther game they will made or have made. While fact is GTs been slowly for two decades ran into the ground by Kaz countless Sony devs did what they wanted and made stunning epic awesome games.

Its all Kaz, its not even remotly arguable its anyone but him.

 

[Nuschel01]

epicenter of the racing/car world, Europe

 

[Snake Plisken]

IMO, they have already made it clear what their stance is on economy of the game, so we will all suffer in silence as nothing will come of the backlash...!!!

 

[McLaren]

I caught a thread on Reddit where they're wondering if Polyphony/Sony was testing a gift system.


This might be fine for the server outage, but it doesn't really fix the current in-game economy.

 

[Rudenut]

I think Kaz is the kind of person that will not allow himself to be influenced by outraged fans. There are many reasons for this but I think the biggest is that if they cave to pressure is might be seen as losing face. I think he is going to continue as if he is right and we just do not understand his vision and some ******** while his game dies because most do not want to play his vision.

 

[Michael88]

What makes you think they'll response to it? Nothing can stop the train to microtransaction-cashland.

 

[Gerarghini]

I remember that quote that @Tornado brought up in another thread about how Kaz's apology was similar to the way he would answer criticism during the PS3 days. I doubt Kaz even pays attention to player feedback unless its literally right in front of him the way GTPlanet interviewed him and asked him about all the duplicates.

 

[liquid_ocelot]

I’ve said it before, Sony is motivated by metascore as much as money. They want all their first party games to review extremely well. Right now GT7 is settling around an 87 critic score, which isn’t all that great by Sony standards, especially after a 5 year development period and FH5’s 90+ score. On top of that, it has the lowest user score of any PlayStation first party game and is being criticized by every major gaming publication. I’d be shocked if Sony execs weren’t putting pressure on Kaz/PD after all the negative PR. However, it is possible that the game is still selling so well that they just don't care.

 

[ShiftingGears]

I’ve said it before, Sony is motivated by metascore as much as money. They want all their first party games to review extremely well. Right now GT7 is settling around an 87 critic score, which isn’t all that great by Sony standards, especially after a 5 year development period and FH5’s 90+ score. On top of that, it has the lowest user score of any PlayStation first party game and is being criticized by every major gaming publication. I’d be shocked if Sony execs weren’t putting pressure on Kaz/PD after all the negative PR. However, it is possible that the game is still selling so well that they just don't care.

Its all about money, good reviews influence others to buy the product and also future products.

 

[Akwaaba]

I do not think that PD will buff the existing economy, but new content will provide more difficult races with higher payouts. Much later on, there might be something or other that will help the economy - like seasonal events in GT5 or the Lewis Hamilton time trail in GTS

 

[Nielsen]

Do you think PD will respond to the criticism in an adequate way?

I’m afraid Kaz believes he already did respond adequately.

 

[mrPetros]

just keep those 20 euro bills rolling

 

[LGBT_Barron]

Just my take but sadly its business and that means they will try to get as much money out of you as they can. I don't like it but there is very little we can do to change that.

The initial reviews really perplexed me in a way, nearly all we're super positive....but aside from Super GT i had never heard of any of the others. Maybe I'm in an echo chamber but not giving Kie, Tidgney, Ollie, Rory early access was baffling to me.

I'm not a serious gamer but didn't EA get tons of backlash over similar gripes we're having with GT7 ? Did that change anything...?

 

[Imari]

Nah. This is the game they wanted to make, and they doubled down on it with the update. They might say all sorts of things, but I doubt we'll see much in terms of meaningful change to the game structure.

 

[Sage Ages]

To be honest I feel like something might happen within the week.

 

[TheScythed]

To be honest I feel like something might happen within the week.

To be honest, if they choose to not adress it this very week, I suspect they will be in pretty deep trouble.

 

[FOG-Smokebeer]

How quickly did the Titanic try to dodge that iceberg ? anywho about that quickly...