I accidentally voted yes, but no thank you! Gran turismo, for the moment, is still a game. If there was no actual in-game progression, it would just become an average sim-racer.
24 pages and I don't think anyone has asked for the removal of in-game progression, just an
option to progress a different way if desired.
I voted no as it wouldn't be Gran Turismo without purchasing the cars . I feel the mandatory completion of some of the career at the start was good for the series , in that at least when you go online you're less likely to be rammed off constantly by a 10 year old playing bumper cars in an X1 .
I'm more than happy to skip the career altogether and deal with whatever I find online.
Career mode in 6 was easy to complete , aside from some of the coffee break challenges and a mission race in IA , so I agree it is not challenging to an experienced player . But in having all cars available at the start , just ask yourself one thing -
How many players would still be playing today ?
Me for one, all of my friends for another. I don't believe anyone is advocating canning the GT career mode, simply offering another option to progress through the game, which you would not be obligated to use. How would your offline career be affected if I simply chose to drive any car I wanted and started tuning and racing online?
People nowadays in gaming want it all available and too easy with no challenge . What's the point in that ?
That's not the spirit of gaming , it's meant to challenge you , not give you everything at your fingertips so you get bored and wander off to do / buy something else .
For some people, especially in this age of peer to peer gaming, racing against AI is not enjoyable or rewarding. The challenge for me is to tune cars and compete online and in TT's and other competitions. It's plenty challenging. Competing with real people is a real challenge. For me competing against the AI is an artificial challenge and doesn't give the same feeling of satisfaction or reward.
The solution is for PD to make career mode challenging in 7 . Keep the credit system , increase the rewards , ditch the login bonus and earn your cars .
It's much more satisfying [for me] to be challenged rather than being lazy and wanting it all from the start .👍
I am not lazy. I work hard. I run my own business. Sometimes I work long very long hours in stressful and physically demanding situations. Many of us do. Videogaming is not work to me nor do I consider it
"lazy" if I don't complete a task in a game or finish a level. I consider it lazy if I don't get out of bed in the morning to earn money, to buy hardware and software for gaming. I game for fun and only play games that are fun to me. Grinding is not fun, offline racing is a little fun but only when I can do it when I want and how I want. Project Cars has great AI and a great career and I've raced maybe 10 races in a month. I've got over 100 hours into the game and I've driven maybe 15 cars, 5 or 6 seriously and explored maybe 6 or 7 track layouts out of 100 in any depth. In a game with 70 cars (+DLC) and 100 layouts, there is so much to do without having to slog through a career mode that I probably won't drive half the cars and half the tracks in 2 or 3 years.
Point is, there are plenty of people like me, who just want the freedom to enjoy the content at their leisure. Even in this GTcentric website, fully 1/3 of respondents to this poll would like a different approach to the game made available to them. I don't see how anyone else's game is affected by me playing the way I want to play.
