Kazunori Yamauchi Responds to Gran Turismo 7 Fan Outrage

[McLaren]

We really live in an age where a half-baked product constitutes as a finished game, which is quite sad. GT7 had no reason to launch like this.

That sort of approach might work on sports games or CODs where the goal is to pump a title out every other year.

But yeah, for a AAA franchise like GT that is notorious for spending several years in the oven, putting emphasis on waiting for post-release content can leave a sour taste when you've expected the time taken to develop means a more polished product.

 

[Pizzicato1985]

Personally I get it. Spot an issue and do everything you can to resolve it. Sometimes these things take time, the issue is the game is almost entirely online, so not much you can do when they need to down the servers to fix it. I imagine this sort of thing will happen a few more times as other updates come out, there will always be bugs they haven't spotted when testing.
I get that a major part of this game is longevity and feel a lot of people are jumping on it too quickly saying it's not complete or it's too much of a grind. That's the point, it's not supposed to be complete in 2 weeks! Take your time, enjoy the experience.

It should have had the IB/IA/S races AT LAUNCH. It's just a slap in the face to include the licenses but not be bothered to fill in the content the licenses correspond to. If those races were here I doubt we'd be in such a credit crunch. That would be doing the bare minimum. PD chose to do even less, so they deserve all the hate they're getting.

 

[JoaoSilva]

We are living in a world of instant gratification and satisfaction. You all are spoiled.

😂😂😂😂

That's all I got to say about your "response".

 

[FordGTGuy]

We are living in a world of instant gratification and satisfaction. You all are spoiled.

How dare we expect an experience similar to previous titles in a game that is more expensive.

It wouldn't have been that hard to setup a racing season alongside the cafe to fulfill people's needs for entertainment and in-game money.

 

[JoaoSilva]

chase your tail

I guess you don't have a proper counter argument uh.

 

[GTP_Dutchy]

I didn't pay £70 to watch my game grow into something worth that initial outlay.

yeah in my opinion it's a false way to create emphathy. If they wanted us to watch it grow they should've made this clear before we chipped in the money. i.e if i go to a real dealership and buy a car, i expect to buy a car, not half a pile of part which may grow into a beautiful car one day. there's a word for situations like that... "scam".

 

[Pete_J_C]

We are living in a world of instant gratification and satisfaction. You all are spoiled.

back in my day, we played pong and we were happy with it. shut up youngsters!

 

[SlowGrinder]

The world we live in today is lacking any sort of appreciation at all. It's always now-now-now, me-me-me. You don't like the game then make your own. You don't like GT7 then don't buy it and "show PD who is boss". You can just go play Forza series. Nothing is stopping you but you get so salty over some slow grind drama. The detail of each vehicle probably took a long time to create but somehow it's ok to just blow through 400+ cars because hey look at me I'm posting online to show how cool I am.

Enjoy playing the game and driving the courses. I can see his perspective because he wants you to value and appreciate the car like IRL. But to just acquire them easily makes them "less value". Not everyone has the time to grind of course but if that is the case then pay up! But NOoooo, I want it ALL for free.

FOH.

PS - Offline play SHOULD be implemented, however. So this sort of delay won't greatly affect EVERYONE.

 

[AutumnalGlow]

The world we live in today is lacking any sort of appreciation at all. It's always now-now-now, me-me-me.

Yawn.

You don't like the game then make your own.

You do this for everything you don't like? Or do you just not have any better argument?

Enjoy playing the game and driving the courses.

Love to do that in a variety of cars, but I can't.

 

[ND4SPD]

We are living in a world of instant gratification and satisfaction. You all are spoiled.

No, we're living in a world where it's ok for most new games to be highly polished pre release versions of the actual game with missing content or have glaring issues but it's normal with online connected games now to slowly update and improve the game over a certain time. A lot of us growing up playing older gt games and just games in general are used to having games be as best as they can be when they released because there would be no actual way for the game to be fixed/patched/upgraded post release....

 

[jsydave]

People are forgetting that it's a relatively new game. It's not meant to be perfect out of the box. It hasn't even had its first FREE content update yet.

Hard disagree to that. We didn't pay £50+ to be his beta testers. If that's the way AAA games are these days then the system is wrong.

 

[grrlpurple]

I do wish PD would stop using the phrase "microtransactions". £15.99 for 2 million in-game credits is not a microtransaction, it's a transaction.

Hopefully Kazunori Yamauchi's comments hint at the evolution of the game toward something more akin to GT6's approach to in-game purchases, but what Kaz, PD and Sony must understand is that the game is broken now and they are riding their luck expecting people to make do with what is currently a seriously flawed game economy for however long it takes them to correct the problem.

However, the frankly ludicrous price of their in-game credits is just plain wrong, period, and they need to be drastically altered or preferrably scrapped completely.

Absolutely this. A 12 million Cr. car in game if bought with "microtransactions" would cost £95.94. For digital content already in the game that you never actually own.

 

[Gt4_c9]

So if kaz is say he doesn't want players racing the same race over and over again. Why didn't he change that function in GT sport, GT6 or even GT5. I get the impression that this game is incomplete just like GT sport.

I miss the days when you paid for a game and it was complete. He should remake GT4 for next gen and add new cars to it. That game is much better than GT7.

 

[SlowGrinder]

So if kaz is say he doesn't want players racing the same race over and over again. Why didn't he change that function in GT sport, GT6 or even GT5. I get the impression that this game is incomplete just like GT sport.

I miss the days when you paid for a game and it was complete. He should remake GT4 for next gen and add new cars to it. That game is much better than GT7.

Those days are long gone and never coming back and it's because of these young generation of slobs who ruin it for everyone else.

Yawn.

You do this for everything you don't like? Or do you just not have any better argument?

Love to do that in a variety of cars, but I can't.

Get gud son.

 

[dabz343]

Not surprisingly, GT community is upset. You know, when you lose trust -- it's hard to get it back.

Right or wrong, Kaz is getting roasted here...and he needs to lead the community to a better place. Can someone coach him, because this is evolving into a circus.

 

[AutumnalGlow]

Get gud son.

Wow, you're boring.

 

[MrNukki]

So if kaz is say he doesn't want players racing the same race over and over again. Why didn't he change that function in GT sport, GT6 or even GT5. I get the impression that this game is incomplete just like GT sport.

I miss the days when you paid for a game and it was complete. He should remake GT4 for next gen and add new cars to it. That game is much better than GT7.

That's what GT7 should've been, an amalgamation of the best parts of GTs of old, especially GT4. Man, did Kaz oversell this product or what...

 

[Phaceless_Ph]

The mental gymnastics coming from these would-be white knights in shining tinfoil armour who are jumping to defend Polyphony is just mind-blowing, it's ok to admit your hero messed up?

 

[Gt4_c9]

Those days are long gone and never coming back and it's because of these young generation of slobs who ruin it for everyone else.

I know and it's awful.

 

[JoaoSilva]

Those days are long gone and never coming back and it's because of these young generation of slobs who ruin it for everyone else.

Where even is the correlation of that to the topic at hand?

This is how you come across.

 

[MrNukki]

Those days are long gone and never coming back and it's because of these young generation of slobs who ruin it for everyone else.

Ugh, I hate saying this, but... okay, boomer.

 

[Gt79]

back in my day, we played pong and we were happy with it. shut up youngsters!

Why play this then, I heard tetris is still hippp
Go play that, why you need nice visuals anyway, fml

 

[SlowGrinder]

exactly your generational attention span limits.

 

[pokemonfan58]

Kazunori used to be one of the most respected developers in the industry to me.

After this, I feel like PlayStation/PD burnt so many bridges with fans, that GT will never reach the hype GT7 had.

He was also really good when it came to utilizing the PlayStation's hardware especially during the PS2 era notably Gran Turismo 3 in the visuals and technical department. At the time GT3 came out, there weren't that many games that could reach the same level of visual and technical quality Gran Turismo 3 had. Imagine if we still had that same Kazunori Yamauchi today, Gran Turismo 7 could've been one of the best PS Exclusives released during the PS5 era.

Sad how we went from Technical Kaz to current day Rockstar levels of bad Kaz.

 

[Gt4_c9]

That's what GT7 should've been, an amalgamation of the best parts of GTs of old, especially GT4. Man, did Kaz oversell this product or what...

Totally agree with you. I thought it would be like that. All the best bits of the other games. But it feels like an updated version of GT sport. He definitely oversold it.

 

[SlowGrinder]

There are a bunch of racing games that are more realistic than GT series can ever be. Don't be salty and go play those instead. Salty little pricks.

 

[FordGTGuy]

exactly your generational attention span limits.

I think you'll find that quite a few people on this forum are a bit older than you assume.

 

[AutumnalGlow]

exactly your generational attention span limits.

You done trolling yet? It's past your bedtime, gramps.

 

[SlowGrinder]

I think you'll find that quite a few people on this forum are a bit older than you assume.

yea, old enough to just get their driver's ed permits

 

[Franske]

Isn't Yamauchi allready old enough for a retirement so they can put a real manager in charge who understands the gamingworld?