Is the GT Sport Player Base Increasingly Sweaty?

[war_ops_84]

This is something I've observed with other competitive online games. The longer they are out, the more "sweaty" their player base becomes. For example, I used to play A LOT of Company of Heroes multiplayer. It was one of my favorite games of all time. But by the time I stopped playing, the player base had become so concentrated to hardcore COH players that I was regularly called a "noob" (many times by people I beat LOL) despite being ranked among the top 5-10% of players. And when the player base reaches that point, it becomes all but impossible for newer or casual players to have fun in online competition, which further biases the player base towards the most hardcore players. GT Sport obviously hasn't reached that point yet, but I have a suspicion that the trend is somewhat underway. Mostly, I base this on what seems like less people racing in online competition. I could be wrong though. Interested to hear people's thoughts.

 

[ShiftingGears]

Who would take swabs to measure this? Or is it an honesty system where the players submit samples?

 

[war_ops_84]

Who would take swabs to measure this? Or is it an honesty system where the players submit samples?

I have no good comeback. Well done.

 

[ARTAsean]

Lemme tell you something. Every Christmas I dust the PS3 off and let my nephews play Battlefield: BC2.

Bare in mind this game is almost 9 years old now. And yet every time I boot it up, there are still full lobbies filled with a lot of low ranking players. I have no explanation as to why, but you have to admit, if a games' playerbase were to become "sweaty" it would be a game such as Battlefield.

If I had to make a theory, I would say AAA console release games like Battlefield and Gran Turismo will always keep a decent playerbase of new and average players, all the way up until the servers are shut down. Company of Heroes on the other hand is a PC game. I would say PC players in general tend to be the sweaty type.

 

[TT92]

.................... every time I boot it up, there are still full lobbies filled with a lot of low ranking players. I have no explanation as to why, .................

It is because very good players open new accounts so they can a) play through the game again b) not scare newbies away with their ranking and so then can easily "own them". This used to happen quite regularly in COD games too ;-)

 

[ARTAsean]

It is because very good players open new accounts so they can a) play through the game again b) not scare newbies away with their ranking and so then can easily "own them". This used to happen quite regularly in COD games too ;-)

Believe me I took that into consideration, but that's not entirely the case because they're usually pretty terrible at the game.