I just believe in them not neglecting a large swarth of their fan base just to keep up on apperances for esports. That's all. I won't comment on anything further. I messaged one of the moderators and e explained that I'm not attacking them. PC is enroute so ill mess off with AC, iracing and race room alot more.
We don't take it as attacking. I was simply pointing out that going to a live esport event, being given a chance to interview the series creator separately from the other media, and then using that opportunity to talk about certain parts of the playerbase's gripes is
not productive. There's a time and a place for that sort of thing, but the Paris World Tour wasn't it.
It's all well and good but restricting peoples ability to enter it, and making it literally impossible for 99.99% of the player base to ever dream of making the events kinda restricts the growth a bit.
To be fair, 99% of the playerbase in any title with an esport wouldn't make it to the event. In the same way only a tiny percentage of the hockey-playing population of Canada will make it to the NHL.
Would I love to see something like an "amateur cup"? Sure. But it'd be hard to really sort out who is truly eligible, and I imagine it wouldn't exactly set sponsors' hearts racing. Maybe down the road it will be a more viable addition.
Unfortunately, enough time has passed since GT1 (21 years) that, and I'm speculating here, the majority of GT Sport players who spend most of their time in Sport Mode either weren't alive in 1998 or were very young, and missed out on the first 3 or 4 titles. I have very little faith that there will ever be another GT comparable to GT4 or GT6. Maybe the new generation only cares about kicking each others' butts online, because they grew up online. If you're over 30, you played the majority of games alone, by yourself, most of the time.
If you're hovering around 30, online gaming has been a fairly common thing for roughly half your lifespan at this point. You probably did play the majority of your games alone still, simply because—I'm guessing—you had more free time as a kid than as an adult.
That being said, people, just like the games they play, change. I'll readily admit I prefer the old carPG approach of classic GTs, but that isn't just because I preferred playing solo. Some of my best memories involving the PS1 games is playing friends via memory card battles with our own custom cars. Online gaming offers a similar sort of approach. I'd argue something like Sport Mode definitely hits that "just one more race" button in my brain more than the procession of AI that single player tends to provide, too. Naturally, YMMV.
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