It's now March; where is our promised community update?

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wowbaggerBR
Man, I really did think last week that, by now, we would be discussing all the awesomeness of the new bugs brought by the new update.
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With that long and beautiful new track right now I would be very quiet driving it.

And very very happy.

Damn. :(
 
pakiman740
This forum for instance, what would be the point, after a few weeks of constant attacks he would stop replying. It will turn into a mess. So while it can work, it is much more likely to not work. I don't get why you don't understand this, i AGREE with you, but it won't work because we are not perfect people.
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If a representative or PD made his presence public here on GTP, you don't think @Jordan would be silly enough to allow a free-for-all do you? One thing that could work is a rep from PD participating in a separate forum where any member can view posts, but only a select group would be allowed to post and communicate directly with said rep. Outside that forum there could perhaps be threads dedicated to gathering and prioritizing of issues we as a community would like to put out there and we'd leave it up to our PD Ambassadors to carry that message to the forum.
 
Johnnypenso
If a representative or PD made his presence public here on GTP, you don't think @Jordan would be silly enough to allow a free-for-all do you? One thing that could work is a rep from PD participating in a separate forum where any member can view posts, but only a select group would be allowed to post and communicate directly with said rep. Outside that forum there could perhaps be threads dedicated to gathering and prioritizing of issues we as a community would like to put out there and we'd leave it up to our PD Ambassadors to carry that message to the forum.
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I get what you mean, its a good idea. It's just they will end up picking some dumb sissy questions, like what happened at that press conference near the Zahara trailer release while back, mind my memory. Also the topic was on twitter, i never delved into Gtplanet. I do like your idea, but I'm a bit confused.
 
It comes down to a very simple matter. We love GT. And will never give it up. But if we could get steady content it would make waiting for the very in the future updates to arrive ( sounds for engines as an example) easier. If i was playing the new track and making my own right now.
And with at least maybe the alfa vgt. I would be a somewhat happy camper.

Its hard to see an update coming this week at all. Likely just 2 more " super laps" with random cars
 
I can wait for the new track, new cars, new whatever.

What irritates me most is that in some aspects, GT5 is more "rich" in content.. and the sad thing is, it's content that should be considered staples. I mean seriously? Where are the community features for GT6? Speed tests, proper arcade.. shuffle racing! Why on earth did PD remove things? Things that were already in GT5.

This is what PD should be focusing on. DLC and all can come later. I want my GT5.5 :indiff:
 
At this point I'm hoping it comes on the 28th so I can say I predicted the future.

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Skyline_77
I can wait for the new track, new cars, new whatever.

What irritates me most is that in some aspects, GT5 is more "rich" in content.. and the sad thing is, it's content that should be considered staples. I mean seriously? Where are the community features for GT6? Speed tests, proper arcade.. shuffle racing! Why on earth did PD remove things? Things that were already in GT5.

This is what PD should be focusing on. DLC and all can come later. I want my GT5.5 :indiff:
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As long as I've been holding off for saying this, for the first time, I want my 5.5 back as well..
 
Devil240Z
On the 28th PD will officially announce the new track and give it a release date.
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Except both the PD rep and Jordan said the track will come in February. So...
Well, yea, I guess you're right. They announce it at about 8 PM Friday night and everyone downloads it 3 hours later.
 
ildd
Except both the PD rep and Jordan said the track will come in February. So...
Well, yea, I guess you're right. They announce it at about 8 PM Friday night and everyone downloads it 3 hours later.
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I remember pretty clearly that they said we will "hear" more in February, Didn't hear anyone say it was coming this month.
 
ildd
"Expect the track in February" sounds a lot like "The track will be available in February"
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Hmm thats not what I heard. I heard more like. "Expect to hear more about the track in February."
 
Johnnypenso
If a representative or PD made his presence public here on GTP, you don't think @Jordan would be silly enough to allow a free-for-all do you? One thing that could work is a rep from PD participating in a separate forum where any member can view posts, but only a select group would be allowed to post and communicate directly with said rep. Outside that forum there could perhaps be threads dedicated to gathering and prioritizing of issues we as a community would like to put out there and we'd leave it up to our PD Ambassadors to carry that message to the forum.
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You know, I've been around here a long time. A very, very, long time. Lurking mostly, posting when something strikes my fancy enough. Mainly just passing the time until the next legitimate piece of news comes along, or something else comes along that distracts me for a spell.

I've been around long enough to know that even the best ideas are often lost in the verbal muck exchanges that often populate any subject that can even remotely be considered controversial in any way.

I've also been around here long enough to know that, when handled correctly, such ideas can still succeed, despite any trouble they may have to fight through in the process.

Indeed, suggestion threads, wish list threads, review threads, etc, are what I would consider to be at least semi-successful ideas to open up at least one-way communication with PD. I have no doubt that PD has some system of sorts to monitor this site, read these threads, and generally maintain awareness of the sentiments of the membership of this site. That doesn't mean they agree with the contents of such threads, or consider them all that useful, but I have no doubt that they are at some level aware of many of our issues.

However, two-way communication is indeed lacking in my opinion, and while I have seen PD open up somewhat over the years, in the process increasingly acknowledging this site more and more with passing years, I can't help but feel that nothing will ever entice them into direct contact on any grand scale. At least not at this time.

In previous years PD made more effort to "hype" us. They "spoke to us" more, if only through the press. They were much more willing to hint at features and such. Leaks abounded on what we could be getting, and when we were supposed to get this or that. Some would say these deadlines and "promises" were often not met, and others would argue that they were often not official anyway. However, the end result is this did arguably result in backlash, particularly after the release of GT5, and from my point of view PD has decided to reverse tactics now. Keeping quiet seems to now be the order of the day.

True, they still make statements of sorts. True they still leave the sporadic hint for us from time to time. I think after the fact they also largely regret doing so in most cases, when speculation runs rampant, and PD is unable (or unwilling) to deliver on resulting expectations. I also think this resulting cycle of speculation/expectation "backlash" only drives them further into silence, though one could make the reasonable argument that silence is the exact opposite way to handle the situation.

So really, on one hand, while I have read more than one good idea in this thread alone, and many more in other threads over the years, I'm really not sure there is anything more that we can realistically really do to increase communication from PD. I don't think they know how to handle it currently. On the other hand, I don't know for sure that a well run effort to do so wouldn't have a positive effect of some kind. Part of me wants to say that the quoted is a very good idea, but I'm afraid I also have the strong feeling that this simply isn't the time for it in PD's mindset.
 
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For many of us if updates dont start being anounced by PD and released every month and on time.. with a good amount of content. What will start to happen is that we will play other games and give up. And in 5 months get an itch to play gt6 and pleasently be surprised with maybe 1.08

PD will not give up on gt6. It just wont happen.
For some reason we get to deal with a very unreliable and completely unaware company about what the people who play this game want but as with gt5, within 6 to 7 months it will be loaded with content.

My first thaughts are( community updates, course maker, new track, b spec,
endurance races category in carreer, fixes to variuos things we need fixed.) I have learned to accept this and just keep checking back here. My life is focused on work and im loving GTA v right now.
Anyway rant over. I truly hope someone from PD is reading this thread Although very hard to beleive because a great way to show us they are paying attention would have been an update last night
 
eSZee
4* over here. All the crickets are dead.
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I can guarantee there are at least a dozen alive in the far west suburbs. My gecko hasn't gotten around to eating them yet...:lol:
 
NA
You know, I've been around here a long time. A very, very, long time. Lurking mostly, posting when something strikes my fancy enough. Mainly just passing the time until the next legitimate piece of news comes along, or something else comes along that distracts me for a spell.

I've been around long enough to know that even the best ideas are often lost in the verbal muck exchanges that often populate any subject that can even remotely be considered controversial in any way.

I've also been around here long enough to know that, when handled correctly, such ideas can still succeed, despite any trouble they may have to fight through in the process.

Indeed, suggestion threads, wish list threads, review threads, etc, are what I would consider to be at least semi-successful ideas to open up at least one-way communication with PD. I have no doubt that PD has some system of sorts to monitor this site, read these threads, and generally maintain awareness of the sentiments of the membership of this site. That doesn't mean they agree with the contents of such threads, or consider them all that useful, but I have no doubt that they are at some level aware of many of our issues.

However, two-way communication is indeed lacking in my opinion, and while I have seen PD open up somewhat over the years, in the process increasingly acknowledging this site more and more with passing years, I can't help but feel that nothing will ever entice them into direct contact on any grand scale. At least not at this time.

In previous years PD made more effort to "hype" us. They "spoke to us" more, if only through the press. They were much more willing to hint at features and such. Leaks abounded on what we could be getting, and when we were supposed to get this or that. Some would say these deadlines and "promises" were often not met, and others would argue that they were often not official anyway. However, the end result is this did arguably result in backlash, particularly after the release of GT5, and from my point of view PD has decided to reverse tactics now. Keeping quiet seems to now be the order of the day.

True, they still make statements of sorts. True they still leave the sporadic hint for us from time to time. I think after the fact they also largely regret doing so in most cases, when speculation runs rampant, and PD is unable (or unwilling) to deliver on resulting expectations. I also think this resulting cycle of speculation/expectation "backlash" only drives them further into silence, though one could make the reasonable argument that silence is the exact opposite way to handle the situation.

So really, on one hand, while I have read more than one good idea in this thread alone, and many more in other threads over the years, I'm really not sure there is anything more that we can realistically really do to increase communication from PD. I don't think they know how to handle it currently. On the other hand, I don't know for sure that a well run effort to do so wouldn't have a positive effect of some kind. Part of me wants to say that the quoted is a very good idea, but I'm afraid I also have the strong feeling that this simply isn't the time for it in PD's mindset.
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Got me thinking of a JJ Abrams series, mystical.
Well perhaps they see perhaps they dont or perhaps both. Most important is what i see and that is not much. Would a sticky locked thread called PD lure them out if it was theirs, would GTP give them that option?
 
Unwaratrex
PD will not give up on gt6. It just wont happen.
For some reason we get to deal with a very unreliable and completely unaware company about what the people who play this game want but as with gt5, within 6 to 7 months it will be loaded with content.
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What makes you think that the next 3 to 4 months will be any different to the first three months?

By this point in GT5 they were up to 1.07. They'd added weight and power limits to online, mechanical damage, seasonals, the OCD, remote racing, car loans, multi-monitor setups, tweaked the AI, tweaked the reward online and offline, locked down the high value car trading "bug" and fixed innumerable bugs.

GT6 has added the Red Bull events, Merc VGT, FT1, and M4. Woo, commercially motivated DLC all the way, baby. And, uh, the login bonus. And fixed a bunch of bugs. Features? Nuh uh.

Does that demonstrate the scale of the difference in support we're seeing? Just go and read the patch notes for the first three months of GT5 and compare to those for GT6. GT5 1.01 was a complete shambles, but at least by three months in it had changed substantially. GT6 1.04 is not a very different game from GT6 1.01, it just has a handful more cars and events.
 
Mulan
Got me thinking of a JJ Abrams series, mystical.
Well perhaps they see perhaps they dont or perhaps both. Most important is what i see and that is not much. Would a sticky locked thread called PD lure them out if it was theirs, would GTP give them that option?
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That's the thing. I really don't know.

I don't pretend to be an expert of any kind on Japan, or it's culture and traditions. I am one of a number of generations of my family that has experienced the country first hand has both soldiers and civilians since WWII. I was brought up with a healthy respect for it's culture, and it's traditions, but much of it remains something of an oddity by my western American way of thinking I'm afraid. I also unfortunately don't have access to the members of my family that would likely know best anymore, has those I would consider most familiar have since passed from this world at ripe old ages.

In my experience though, like any culture, it's made up of individuals. Those individuals can sometimes prove themselves has such by doing the unexpected, but my experience is that has a general rule they don't handle discomfort in social situations very well. At least not by what would be the expected fashion when applied to my being American anyway.

Making them uncomfortable with western "straight forwardness" often resulted in avoidance in my experience, and those things that would make them most uncomfortable were often things that wouldn't phase me at all. Things like not knowing an answer to my request for directions could lead to false directions, rather than admit ignorance, for instance.

That's not to say that Japan is full of people that can't, or won't adjust to the mindset of westerners. I met many who could, and would do so out of little more than their own desire to do so. I had friends and neighbors that would go out of their way to make allowances for my "Americanism". I just never really fully understood the culture enough myself to reliably predict when this would happen, or why at times.

So that's why I say, such a thing might work, but I really don't know for sure. Probably depends on the mentality of the individuals involved more than anything.
 
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In McHenry County here, so technically still up for debate by a minority of the locals if it even counts has a Chicago suburb, but now that we're clearly and definitely wildly off topic......:gtpflag:

(There are also only 9 crickets left if anyone is counting. I assume nobody is, but the internet is full of weirdos, so one never knows.)
 
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Ok, what if GT built a console specifically tailor made for whatever the game needs so they won't have ANY issues what so ever, and sold it separately from the disk. It could/should be simple. No browsers or netflix or anything. Just the game would start when you turn on the system. Any set-up needed would be in-game.

1) How many of you people would buy it ?
2) For the tech/business savvy - how much would it cost as a product to buy if it was mass-produced ?


Note: if you guys want me to post it in a new thread I will. Just thought I'd pass the time.
 
lGNAl
Ok, what if GT built a console specifically tailor made for whatever the game needs so they won't have ANY issues what so ever, and sold it separately from the disk. It could/should be simple. No browsers or netflix or anything. Just the game would start when you turn on the system. Any set-up needed would be in-game.

1) How many of you people would buy it ?
2) For the tech/business savvy - how much would it cost as a product to buy if it was mass-produced ?


Note: if you guys want me to post it in a new thread I will. Just thought I'd pass the time.
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That would require PD to become a hardware company. And they'd have to break partnership with Sony.

It would be a fortune, let me tell ya.
 
Some type of communication from PD would be nice :odd:.

But I can wait for the update.(Used to play Forza, T10 are full of lies and stuff never got done. Sorry about moaning about Forza in a GT6 thread.)
 
Quakebass
That would require PD to become a hardware company. And they'd have to break partnership with Sony.

It would be a fortune, let me tell ya.
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Could be under the Sony name but with PD requirements of the specifications. You would have the choice to buy that or the disk.
 
LVracerGT
I don't care about a new track, I care about getting the game out of it's current BETA state, fixing all the bugs and sorting out the horrid online issues, bringing the features that were promised before release like the community features and such.

After all of that, then I could deal with new cars and tracks. Fix the 🤬 that needs to be addressed first, you know since the game was released at full price we should be able to expect a stable, complete title and not this garbage PD calls GT6 currently.
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LOL, Very well said, and you said it much neater than I would have. 👍 👍
(Fact, I think I have berated the game pretty badly elsewhere.... :sly: )

On that note, I did see somewhere where people were debating times etc. (release dates) and I asked myself..
Would it have been better for this game (GT6) to have been delayed?
Ala GT4, GT5????

Maybe, just maybe...that could have given the developers time to implement ALL said features at release.

Sure, some of these threads would be then aimed at, "what's taking them so long?"......
But at least everyone would be waiting for a complete game. :D
No doubt there would still be bugs to iron out, but at least we might have had a decent game and the bugs may not have been all that noticeable straight up. :confused:
 
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