I cannot show a real factual data which proves a counter argument to your opinion. And I do not believe that you can provide real factual data that shows that PD developed the game to encourage MTX.
There's evidence that the game was built around MTs, but it's circumstantial. However, eventually there's enough circumstantial evidence that it becomes reasonable to assume the conclusion. There's a lot of design choices in GT7 that are really, really odd if the intent is not to push MTs. Odd enough that seeing them from a 25 year old development studio is almost unbelievable.
These are professional developers, they know how game economies and microtransactions work. That they happened to end up with a system that so strongly encourages MT purchases seems wildly unlikely unless you assume a very high level of incompetence.
The economy is tuned to encourage tuning up your personal car of choice and making it your own. If the game handed out money and/or reduced the cost of cars, then why would one bother customizing a car to themselves when you can just 'buy a better car'.
We can see this in Forza Horizon. Yes, there's maybe less personal attachment to any given car. But people absolutely still bother customising cars. I think it's encouraged in a system where money and cars are more available, because there's no reason not to if you think it's fun.
In a game like GT7 where credits are scarce, there's a real gameplay decision to make about whether experimenting with a weird build is going to be a waste of hard-earned money that could have been better used on something more obviously good. Encouraging those decisions can be a good thing, but it doesn't encourage experimentation and building your own special car if you want to win races.
There is no consistent rate going on right now. Online races pay practically nothing unless you're in the top 3, which only encourages people to grind offline races. There are no signs of intentional design going on in these payouts. It might as well be an intern with an Excel spreadsheet balancing this stuff.
But... if you're not encouraging people to play online then you won't have to pay for as many online servers. The hardcore people will still play and you'll still get the marketing benefit of the big competitions, but with the minimum amount of people stressing your server hardware.
This is a bit conspiracy theory. But the garbage payouts for racing online are very weird given that you'd think they'd want to encourage people to play them.
GT5 and 6 were the same at launch, before seasonal and extra events were added. The difference is that now people are SO impatient. Give it a month or two, I'm sure we will have better options to get money. It'll always take a while, just hopefully less than it does now.
People bought a game, and they're impatient for wanting to play it now instead of in a month or two? Wanting to be able to use a product as intended is not impatient or unreasonable.
Do you also tell kids that they're greedy for wanting to eat food every single day?
People are ******* impatient! 🙄
Simple is that. 😜
They want millions in days.
Platinum trophy in weeks.
You have to deserve it, and fight for it my friends... a LOT!!! 👍 🙂
This game is not for months, this is for YEARS!
It's meant to be a loooong adventure.
No, most people just don't want to be doing the same race hundreds of times for months and years. That doesn't seem fun, which is ultimately the point of the game.
If there was a hundred hours of content to work through like GT4 the pushback would be much lower. It's the combination of poor payouts plus incredibly repetitive endgame content that is chafing most.
