I have to say that this is rather amusing, after we get a few paragraphs of stuff we really have known about for some time - how they used to record sounds and all, and all of a sudden, people are singing all manner of different tunes.
This is nice of Kaz to set aside time for this, very nice in fact. But this doesn't change him into a human being from some mean, uncaring millionaire who has been trolling us while he rolls around laughing in his money bin. He's been that human being all along.
Sometimes it seems like me, Jordan, Famine, amar212 and a chosen few of us here understand that, and how much it probably hurts Kaz to be told that his cars all sound like garbage disposals. That he has done a lot for the racing game genre, the car world, the motorsports and racing world and who knows what else. But neglect something in his video game, and some of us go bonkers, as if he killed your dog, and then did donuts on the corpse in your front yard.
I've never lost sight of the knowledge that Kaz - and his team, this is a team effort after all - pour their hearts and souls into this crazy living thing known as Gran Turismo. I know that people remark that this isn't a charity, that they do it for money. But game developers are a unique breed of human. They wouldn't live at a bank, sleeping under their desks because they can't seem to tear themselves away from their digital balance sheets. They're creators. Artisans. They give themselves over to this crazy life because it's their passion. They get something out of producing all this code, or arranging polygons on a screen, or painting these virtual objects, or recording sounds for these virtual vehicles and tires, knowing that millions of fans are playing with what they fashioned out of their imaginations.
They spent a lot of their life on this virtual dream we share. I'd never treat them like my own personal punching bag because the vision they fashioned for me isn't perfect. When Ferrari Challenge gave me fits, I had a meltdown on the Eutechnyx boards once, and I whined for a few posts about the driver views, or the bots that moved aside for you to pass just long enough to let you beside them before they rammed you off the road. But I didn't make a career out of calling them hacks that couldn't give me what I wanted. And I never said that they cared about nothing but filthy lucre. And as much as I still like FC, I don't think it's half the game GT6 is. Nor would I use that to badger them about it.
I knew that Kaz hadn't changed, that this was who he was all along. And I was right.
