So ... has anyone actually stopped playing GT5 completely?

[tpark103]

I have cut back considerably. It's the only game I play but, I over the last two weeks it's been rare.

 

[jagdrag77]

I have cut back considerably. It's the only game I play but, I over the last two weeks it's been rare.

Yeah I'm in the same boat, but come holiday time I'll be back to it 👍

 

[another_jakhole]

I play it pretty inconsistently. I've been bored of playing it at times. Yet it's THEE game I've played for the past year and no other games have changed that. Ultimately, the features GT5 has INNOVATED into the series have definitely held my attention all this time. An added feature as "simple" as Custom Soundtracks is one.


just read the highlighted parts of the quotes that have them if all of this is too much to read

Its understandable that, according to current statistics, []60%[/] of the players do not share the initial enthusiasm that they had for the game since its release 3 months ago. They range from those who play it but do not derive much enjoyment, to those who have completely stopped.

However, whats more interesting is that greater than []1/3[/] of the voters do not see GT5 as a prime video game of their choice anymore. (despite the fact that they've likely showed considerable interest in the game at first, evinced by the fact that they joined GTP).

In a mere 3 months, one of the cornerstone games of the PS3 is losing the attention of its gamers. And this is only considering the people who go to GTPlanet regularly, browse the forums, and votes. Consider the external mass who do not know about GTP or GT themed forums, and are simply gamers who buy video games. Are they bored of this title already?

If Polyphony Digital has any interest in keeping ahead in the simulator racing genre, they should reexamine their fundamental value propositions. Boredom does not translate well into brand loyalty and $_$.

My reply to this is practically a direct answer to the thread title.

A year and two months after this post was made, GT5 is selling a high average of 30k a week and 20k being the low. I've never really seen it selling much less than 15k. It's been like this for about a year. I'm pretty sure it was stuck at an average of 40k a week for 2-3 months at the beginning of this past year.

Either way, we know that GT5 still interests people this far down the line (selling 50k more than FM4 this year). We can't be sure, but it's likely that more people now know about the 800 standards, the engine sounds, bad shadows, no leaderboards, and the minimal amount of events it has.

I'm still playing it for the simple fact that i enjoy driving. Now that i got a proper steering wheel it's more fun than ever. I could care less what's in the game or not, enough of my favorite cars are on here. I enjoy it daily.

I was actually getting bored with it and I realized that I wasn't utilizing the game properly. I let the mundane A-Spec mode drag me down. Then I started doing one make races in practice mode and having a LOT of fun with those. Then I tapped into GT TV and realized there was some cool stuff in there. There's still a lot to do in this game, I just don't care about leveling up anymore. Waste of time and effort. I was letting the crappy career mode set up get in the way of the purely awesome physics that I bought the game for.

Agree with them and good points made.

plus the bolded statement goes with comments like this...

I only use it to collect the remaining expensive premium cars. Standards can go to hell.

👎 This quote can go to hell.

I've played solid for two and a half months, got to b-spec 40 and a-spec 32, the lack of events are the major problem. I've got other games to play now (lbp2, dead space 2, tdu 2), I will be eager to see what the update provides as I believe it could make if break the game for me (leaderboards please).

iv got to level 30 and found it started to get very boring so iv just spent a few weeks playing halo reach but ill go back to it very soon.

Most reasonable posts ever. 👍 Respectable in the way they were said and I can appreciate their answers.

Saying something like, "GT5 took this long to make and these are the only races we have? ", is ignorant. Maybe you should look deeper and at the bigger picture. For example, I've seen comments in the articles on the News page that literally say Photo Mode is pointless and shouldn't be in a racing game. I look in here and some people stick with GT5 only for taking pictures.

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If Sony don't step in and do something then GT6 is finished before it leaves the starting block. It's hard to believe that what once was the market leader is not at the back of the grid. It just proves that you should never rest on your laurels.
The next patch will be the last and by 3 months no more seasonal challenges.
What really annoys me is that when watching the dev programs on GTTV, you can see the rest of the team sitting nodding when Kaz brings up and issue or talks about the game but surely some of them must have thought that what he's doing is wrong and here's a better way to approach it.
All I see is Kaz driving around the ring while his team make the game.

post made over a year ago

Oh..my god.

That's hysterical.


It doesn't mean THAT much because GT5 has the most sales out of any other PS3 exclusive, but I think it still says a little something rather than nothing at all.
http://www.justpushstart.com/2012/03/new-zealanders-favorite-ps3-game-is-modern-warfare-3/

 

[Samus]

Saying something like, "GT5 took this long to make and these are the only races we have? ", is ignorant. Maybe you should look deeper and at the bigger picture. For example, I've seen comments in the articles on the News page that literally say Photo Mode is pointless and shouldn't be in a racing game. I look in here and some people stick with GT5 only for taking pictures.

No it's not. Some people bought the game to take pictures and that's fine but it's not supposed to be the core gameplay element and those people know that. The core element is and always has been the driving. I bought GT5 to race and their wasn't enough races in the single player game. It's a simple FACT, it isn't ignorant at all.

 

[Terronium-12]

I play it pretty inconsistently. I've been bored of playing it at times. Yet it's THEE game I've played for the past year and no other games have changed that. Ultimately, the features GT5 has INNOVATED into the series have definitely held my attention all this time. An added feature as "simple" as Custom Soundtracks is one.

I think it says a lot more than you, and probably anyone else with a similar train of thought, are aware when it's necessary to cite the ability to import your own music into the game as a positive.

just read the highlighted parts of the quotes that have them if all of this is too much to read

My reply to this is practically a direct answer to the thread title.

A year and two months after this post was made, GT5 is selling a high average of 30k a week and 20k being the low. I've never really seen it selling much less than 15k. It's been like this for about a year. I'm pretty sure it was stuck at an average of 40k a week for 2-3 months at the beginning of this past year.

Either way, we know that GT5 still interests people this far down the line (selling 50k more than FM4 this year). We can't be sure, but it's likely that more people now know about the 800 standards, the engine sounds, bad shadows, no leaderboards, and the minimal amount of events it has.

Even though you make a point of it, reading just the boldfaced excerpt is taking the rest of the point being made almost completely out of context. Sales are not a measure of importance to anyone other than financial advisors, or those who continue to cite such a thing as a means of countering an argument with which is, and I'm being frank here, useless data. It doesn't change the fact that even with GT5's overall sales holding steadily, people are losing interest because there's nothing to maintain it.

What do you think the Seasonal Events are for? Or, all of these new (and I use that term cautiously) features? You think that's PD just being nice? No, they're trying to regain that lost interest with band-aid solutions.

Agree with them and good points made.

plus the bolded statement goes with comments like this...

Once again, doesn't that say more about the game than it's individual user? He says he was dragged down by the mundane A-Spec mode, and cites the XP system as a "waste of time and effort".

👎 This quote can go to hell.

That's sure to attract some negative attention. Don't do it again.

Most reasonable posts ever. 👍 Respectable in the way they were said and I can appreciate their answers.

And yet, they've expressed feelings no different to anyone else voicing some of the same sentiments. Something you may not be aware of is that typically, depending on the person involved of course, the more verbosely blatant a response is, the more passionate the individual is about that opinion.

Now, that's not to suggest an opinion can't be expressed in a calm and collective manner, however, and this is still dependent on the individual, calm and collective usually dilutes the entirety of the opinion.

Saying something like, "GT5 took this long to make and these are the only races we have? ", is ignorant.

No, it isn't. It's point out a blatant fact. You may take issue in the matter in which said truth is expressed, but it doesn't change the idea that it is a fact.

Once again, what do you think the Seasonal Events are? They're band-aid solutions precisely because of the lack of events.

Maybe you should look deeper and at the bigger picture.

GT5 isn't an enigma, there's only a bigger picture if you believe there's one. For some, the "bigger picture" is multiplayer—I'm an introvert myself, so multiplayer has very little (if any) appeal to me whatsoever. In the face of genuine disappointment, telling someone they should look deeper and at the bigger picture is incredibly likely to result in a negative outlash as they've likely exhausted every possible outcome to make GT5 as interesting as it possibly could be, only to find themselves with nothing to do.

For example, I've seen comments in the articles on the News page that literally say Photo Mode is pointless and shouldn't be in a racing game. I look in here and some people stick with GT5 only for taking pictures.

For some, photomode is the only thing left. Speaking of photomode, I absolutely see no worthwhile point in Photostream.

I mean, really?

 

[C_Raccoon23]

I'm pretty much done with GT5 and I don't see myself playing it again at all, especially since I got Forza 4 and it's proven to be a much more superior racing game for my needs. The career mode has always been my favorite part of GT and it's sad how shallow it is when it has gotten better after each GT game in the past. The career is what motivated me to keep playing a GT game.

These band-aid seasonals aren't cutting it anymore. What's even worse is that we're stuck with this repetitive pattern of the same PP races, B-spec, and TT/DT events. Gone is the variety we once had in the seasonals. It's been well over a year and if PD really cared about A-spec, we would have seen a great improvement in it by now.

 

[AlexGTV]

Not quite sure what your trying to say here old chum.

Do you mean it's useless if you not in the top 500?
Should the boards only hold 500?
You have to be a Nerd to enjoy a leaderboard?

Could you please elaborate on your somewhat baffling comment?

I'm trying to say you must to rank high (say top 20%) needs commitment to the point of being frustrating plus it's a sure bet the best players all cheat in one way or another... which only adds to the frustration.

 

[MSTER232]

I haven't stopped playing Gran Turismo 5 completely yet but in my opinion it's starting to get really boring. PD need to add a wider range of things for the game to get people to start playing it again.

 

[Tuck !]

Moved to iRacing, and then sold off my ps3 promptly

 

[DragoonClawNZ]

I've stopped playing it so often ever since I got up to level 40 on A/B-Spec and got almost every standard car. I've found myself briefly playing it once every often whenever there's a new Seasonal event or an update in the OCD.

 

[Lux_Lemur]

I bought it when it came out and played it for about 2 months, then I got bored as I'm not that into cars. Fast forward 2 years and now I'm playing it everyday, I've just got back into it. I'm still a terrible driver though, and have no idea what all the tuning options are!

 

[shepzki]

I still do the new Seasonal Events, get some enjoyment out of those. My problem with GT5 is that the dev's (PD) are very inconsistent with updates, I still don't honestly don't see why we can't have manufacturers events like in GT4. Just something to break the monotony, one new decent event a month just doesn't cut it for me, not these days. During the PS2 era it was understandable as it was not possible to churn out updates, these days it is much more simplified but I guess they (PD) will only support a game so far.

 

[FosterG]

I still like the game and have taken a short break from Forza4, but GT5 needs to understand that car guys need more new cars. I have had every car I want in GT5 for a year now. Next week I get a new group of cars in Forza, that 59 Caddy is going to be cool! Then in May, the Porsche gang comes to town, and all of them are premium! I love premium cars too, so GT5 could get a lot more play out of me if they followed suite. Make no mistake, I like this game but they need to do some other things. Gotta go play now.

 

[Emman1984]

Not completely just like once a week or 3 times a month only cause I have 15 Games and I don't wanna get bored playing the same game every day each time I turn my PS3 on I like variety sometime I like to get chased by cops, get out my car or play a total different genre like Football

 

[BlacqueJacques]

Only occasionally now; playing F1 2011 most of the time; and now Birds of Steel

 

[Bye Ya]

Haven't played this game in about 6 months probably. Don't really care to either. Bored.

 

[urmie]

I boot it up, check the online dealerships when they update, get the new cars, do the new seasonals and that's it. Rinse and repeat.

Yakuza 4 and Yakuza: Dead Souls is where my attention is.
Shenmue 1/2 HD remasters, if it comes out thanks to Sega's tease, will take up more time.

 

[deadcat777]

If Xbox and forza 4 comes with full G27 support. I'll get rid of the 🤬 GT5. So far only 3 DLC? And the car sounds like crap.

 

[Matra]

I guess you could say I took a bit of a hiatus from GT5. Actually, I bought my PS3 for the sole purpose of playing GT5. Needless to say, I bought the game soon after it was released. I played it a lot in November and December 2010, but at that time I didn't have my PS3 connected to the internet. Then I got really busy at the beginning of 2011 and I stopped playing GT5 completely for almost 10 months. Then I moved into a new place last year. Soon after that, I finally connected my PS3 to the internet and got back into playing GT5. I started playing a lot from October 2011. At first, the trophy challenges captured my attention. The only challenge remaining for me is to get gold on the Vettel Challenge. That challenge has been a bit draining, so recently I gotten interested in the drifting aspect of GT5. I think after I clear that final challenge I will get into the online racing/drifting aspect of GT5. It may be a while before I give up GT5 completely!

 

[Brend]

Play it every so often and now for the GTP WRS. That's about it.

 

[mao_fs]

I used to play GT 5 every day.
Since I bought my xbox, I play Forza 4 every day.
Waiting for many changes in GT 6, because GT 5 is far behind!

 

[sdf]

I got bored too, i havent played for a month now....
PD needs to reinvent the wheel to get me back to GT5.
They only 2 things that could drag me back to GT5 is Motorcycles and a lot of old or/and new circuits.
Staff like this new photo sharing or dlc's with 3-4 cars, or DLC for the premium version of car that is already in the game, is just lame and boring.

 

[Alan_G]

Yes. This week, I loaded up GT5 for the first time in around 5 months.

I knew within a few days of its release that it was not looking good. My interest eventually just fizzled out.

I remember playing games like Toca Race Driver 3. I just went on and on for months, never getting bored. Every online race was as fun and exciting as the previous. The offline races against the AI cars could be very challenging also.

In GT5, they've just focused on too many of the wrong areas. It's a bit of a scandal that they didn't include any kind of permanent leaderboards. There may have been data-storage issues, but they could have limited it to only premium cars on particular circuits or something. Competitive leaderboards have been one of the main features of most big sims over the last few years.

The offline play is not competitive enough either. It should be more restricted, forcing the user to race at the same PP as AI cars, using an overall AI difficult setting to control what the user wants (what ALL other games do).

 

[AnPrionsaBeag]

Yes. Long ago...

 

[mattythedog]

Yes, I'm afraid to say I have. It occupied me for 13 months, but now I find F1 2011 so much better and exciting.

 

[GTPmrpotsworth]

Well i do still play it but i think round 60% less people are playing now when i go online and look for a good racing room ( when friends not online ) it takes me so long to find a room thats any good so i end up joning some 500pp Nurburgring room and have some fun

 

[themartlab]

I play about 30 minutes in the last month just to try the last seasonals. My game time have move from GT5 to BF3.

 

[Jack002]

I was playing it then the TOP GEAR TRACK stopped working. I asked for help and was ignored. I bought another disk, I reloaded the game data, nothing helped, so HATING this game I quit playing it.
Now today I tried it and theres an update and an update for the PS3, after that I can run the TOP GEAR TRACK again.

PD, you SUCK at responding to people, you can't even say "We know, we're looking at it". It was fixed, and people who gave up on it didn't know. Dont try to pimp your new games to me! It wont work.

 

[JackC8]

I hadn't played it in months but then I was watching some F1 racing last weekend and that got me wanting to play it again. Not to drive the Formula GT, but just to drive around some tracks.

 

[DEATHSARTHE]

I love GT5, probably too much. I'm coming off a 6 month break from it after realizing that I spend too much time on it for no real good reason.

I run a free run lobby, but I end up kicking 50% of everyone that joins and that gets discouraging after a while. When I think about it, I can only recall a handful of people worth my time out of the hundreds/thousands of people that have come through my lobbies. So online, while fun at times, is kind of a bust for me.

But more to the point, I'd spend a majority of my twilight hours cylcing through UCD playing GT5's ridiculous odds game only to never find the car I'm looking for. Oh yes, if only we got trophies for UCD cycling. I wish there was a 5 day leap button in the game... would make things so much easier.

Typically I do start thinking about things this game should have before eventually tiring out from frustration and shutting the damn thing off before crashing out at 2:00 AM. Perhaps I'm in denial because I want GT5 to work or to be the best console game ever because I've spent so much time on it and so much money for it... and not a whole lot to show for it.

Thus 6 month breaks insue and I spend my leisure time elsewhere, like in Pandaria (MoP sucked BTW, but at least my Druid has nice achieves/titles) and DC Universe (which was great for a minute or two before it starting corrupting and crashing my PS3 - no way I'm DLing that to my PC ). Really just looking forward to the new Sim City and Primal Carnage. 👍

EDIT: I also want to mention that I'm not liking where GT is headed. GT Academy is a neat concept and all, but that's not why I play Gran Turismo. I just don't click with Academy, it's too elite for me. I can't help but feel that future GT titles will be heavily influenced by it.