And as pointed out, in Day 1 GT Sport, how easy was it to earn credits with a game made solely of online play? Versus what we ended up with in a short amount of time when they added single player races? The point is that theu are doing the same thing again, the game is not finished.
I didn't play GT Sport as it was online only (I am fully aware this was not the case later) so I am only focusing on the main entries into the series where credit earning was easier than it is here. As for the game not being finished, there is nothing to say to that, they have reduced credit payouts for no good reason as it certainly was not easy to earn credits before the patch. Even with the pre patch credit levels I would still be miles away from "earning" enough for certain cars. Games should have equal parts fun to a "grind", they can't even make custom races pay out anything meaningful.
Unfortunately manual, the GT7 APIs the game uses are incredibly locked down
Oh the hypocrisy around this subforum goes even further than that, and not just from our Brazilian friend. Remember the FM7 launch where everyone and their sisters tore it a new one because it had "loot crates" suggesting MTX implementation, cars locked behind a system nobody understood/knew when they would become available, and featured exclusive cars in a weekly rotation that if you missed the opportunity to get them, no one knew when they'd be available again? Or when people laughed and said it made no sense that the Forza GT division had GT1/GT3/GTE/GTLM and Super GT/JGTC cars BOP'd together? Or that it wasn't a proper racing game because it featured pickup trucks and SUVs racing on actual tracks?
I bought two of the Corvette already. I customized one of them and it can't turn very well.
We paid full price for this game and it came with 424 cars at launch. We have already paid for those cars. They belong to us. They are ours. We should be able to access them - all of them - through a reasonable amount of gameplay, like, say, playing the game regularly for six months.
The appearence of the McLaren F1 at this time is the clearest indication yet that PD want us to pay more real money, on top of what we already paid for the game, in order to access the content of the game we just paid for.
I'm going to try to address your question. No, I don't think I'm entitled to the McLaren or the master sword. I'm perfectly content to spend ridiculous amounts of time playing video games. HOWEVER... The issue being discussed here isn't the in game price of the car but rather that the car is priced in a way to make you have to spend nearly two hundred dollars in order to get it. I doubt you would see anyone complaining about the price of you couldn't open up your wallet and pay $185 for it. People would grumble about payouts and prices and then we'd all go on our way grinding fisherman's I'm order to get the cars. The issue is that this game is clearly built in a way to scam people out of money. In your example, it's like if you could just pay $200 and get the master sword at level 1. That's the issue here. And we've all gotten used to practices like this in gaming these days. However: 1. I'm ok if it would be like if GT itself was free and then you could buy cars faster, but it's not, it's $90. I shouldn't have to pay $90 in order to purchase the honor of getting further scammed 2. Again, we expect practices like this from some games, but we don't want to see GT turned into such a game. GT shouldn't be in the same league as the F2P Korean MMORPGs.
Believe it or not it can get worse.
Sorry, but there is absolutely nothing forcing anyone to spend any real money to acquire a car. $20 million credit cars existed in GTS for four years, no one was forced to spend any money to get any of them. If you can't acquire the car now because you don't have the credits, then wait for it to appear again. It's that simple. You literally said you are willing to spend the time to play the game to get the credits needed, so do that.
They didn't. The "Stealths" appeared on game days 694-700, by which time it was possible to have completed 90% of the game.
They couldn't. Microtransactions (cash-for-credits) didn't exist, and cars over 10,000,000cr (initially 2,000,000cr, but this was raised in March 2019) couldn't be purchased in the PS Store.
The consumer pays £70+ for the game. That should be enough entitlement to gain access to any car on the game or be able to raise 'good enough funds' in a certain amount of time to attain such cars. There is no such as 'deserving' when its merely a virtual car in game that is worthless and these certain cars was easily accessible in past GT titles.
I know your message is satire, but I'd like to add a precision : the rebuilding costs are not even realistic. They're not indexed on collector's market value in real life. For a regular production car, sure, rebuilding one from spare parts will be more expensive, but that's not the case for high value collection cars, where the value comes mostly from the chassis number at this point.
Assuming that you either knew the Stealths were coming and had saved money, or that you played the game without ever backing out of events and advancing the calendar more than an optimized route. Either way, cars in the Used Car dealer were not inherently affordable on Day 1 of the game, nor were the Stealths the only large sum cars, and being able to buy all the available Stealths required a large sum of money since they put them all on the same days.
No, sorry, you're not entitled to that. A game with a progression system doesn't have to hand you anything in the time scale that you demand. Guess what, the cars weren't free in previous GT games either, you had to earn credits for them too. Having that earning be easier or harder does not negate that you still had to do the exact same thing, and could not inherently gain easy access to every car you wanted.
Except as has been pointed out ad naseum, the used car dealers have worked in this way before. Just because you were eventually able to work out how to game the system to get the UCD to give you the options you wanted does not change the fact that PD has offered you cars then taken them back away and made you wait, either through non-playing gaming the system or playing the game naturally.
