The silence of PD in the last days

[danowat]

In times like this, silence is usually a good way to manage the situation, saves you being rash and sticking your foot further into your mouth.

 

[Lomic]

The silence comes from Kaz being on an eternal vacation

Too busy racing the PD BMW on real tracks and going places.

 

[RikkiGT-R]

Maybe Kaz will release an independent statement that he’s left PD and is working on a new racing game that will be “the game he always wanted to make”, and we find out he was hamstrung by Sony’s greed into ruining Gran Turismo.

Perhaps he’s currently being held prisoner at Sony HQ and can’t say anything publicly.

 

[wheelhp]

I prefer the one where Kaz intentionally boycotts GT7 with terrible updates (knowing full well the outcome) to shove it back to Sony then gets his next paycheck buffed up to his standards (finally!) and slowly but surely fixes the game and the outrage. Kaz' been on our side the whole time fellas! Win - Win!

 

[Mythaga]

The MTX are Sony's doing that is obvious...

However outside of that the game has many other issues that still haven't been addressed.

I reckon PD are in panic mode right now and are frantically trying to find ways to save face. The game is getting review destroyed right now so they need to do something spectacular very soon or the game will die a very quick death.

Most people have short attention spans these days and won't hang around waiting for updates if a game doesn't do it for them, they will just find something else to play...

 

[NickGuy]

Step one to fix this game: let us play offline. That would go a long way to allowing ppl to be patient to wait for a long term fix to the next biggest issue, the credit nerf

 

[ebadevil]

The fact that the "letter" was empty PR-speak indicates to me that there is nothing major on the horizon in the near future.

If there was a plan to release new races/cars/tracks over the next week, I think that would've been mentioned in order to placate the players. Given that there was nothing of substance, it probably means that there's nothing of substance in terms of content upcoming either.

I'm thinking we're not going to have content updates until about 2-3 months from release. I think they will mostly try to address the bugs as well as improve some of the features. I think they are probably working on fixing the online lobbies, maybe the terrible livery editor. Maybe they can add a radar before the race. I think those are the types of updates that we would be looking at for the near future. Content update I think might come around late April/early May. That's more or less what I'm thinking will happen.

EDIT: I've been thinking about it and I think it makes sense. If the thought is Sony is pushing down the MTX, then the no content updates of 2-3 months makes sense. I think they will wait for a full cycle of the legendary dealership to occur to create the maximum amount of FOMO in order to get that sweet MTX cash. I think after the 70 or so days of the first cycle is when we'll see some updates that might let us get more credits. At that point the group of people that really wanted the cars and bought them with with cash will be tapped out. Then I think they'll move on to providing more content/creating more FOMO. So I think 3 months is realistic. It'll give the 70ish days of legendaries and then a few weeks to push out the updates

 

[NICKname]

They're probably not saying anything because they know they don't need to say anything. People are spending enough money on microtransactions and they're meeting the only goal they wanted to achieve with this game: higher profit margins. And as for the people not buying microtransactions, I bet they couldn't care less about what they think. This game isn't for them. They're not reading what we're writing, and if they do it's just to find out how far they can go in reducing payouts and tactically managing the dealerships. And to be honest I think they can and will go even further.

 

[Aloha62_2]

Since when did PD ever do communication?

They have never communicated with fans, and rarely even acknowledge that they exist.

 

[CodeRedR51]

They were posting a ton on social media until the outage. Sometimes they posted a few times a day. Now it has been silent for a week.

Hopefully the next post is addressing their fans.

Thats Sony posting, not PD.

 

[danjama]

I think our answer lies in how much money they're making from micro transactions. Is there a way to find that out?

 

[BossBattle]

Thats Sony posting, not PD.

Either way, the official GT page is silent.

 

[nordschleife51]

The Known Issues notice, updated March 24 (Tokyo time), contains a small fraction of the actual Known Issues. So for me, confidence is pretty low that PD will address anything meaningful. 👎

 

[nickg07]

Do you remember when Kaz and PD said they would communicate more in GT5 or something abd they were almost silent?

 

[McLaren]

I think our answer lies in how much money they're making from micro transactions. Is there a way to find that out?

Not a chance. Clearest answer you get is when the companies put out their quarterly reports & the press picks up on it. That's how people find out how much money COD or GTA rakes in from their microtransactions.


On the topic, I would put hope in that PD is currently looking to solve the issues at hand & will only say something once they've got a solution set.

 

[jergto]

Bud PD and Kaz have two decades of incompetance out of touch bad decisions lacking features BS excuses and delivering underwhelming results that tell us its all them. Plus they already tried this **** with GT HD.

Also there is the simple fact no other sony games have any of this BS, even ones that just released.

MTX pricing would not even matter had the fool Kaz not made the price of cars reflect real world markets. Thats all him bud, typical unnecessary bs that everyone hates in a long list of Kaz wants.

If they are going to charge real world pricing and the prices are current they should have AT LEAST PUT IN CURRENT CARS, NOT CARS FROM 2017. What a JOKE!

 

[Famine]

Thats Sony posting, not PD.

That's actually a third-party PR firm posting, not Sony or PD. Probably Engage, as usual.

 

[CodeRedR51]

The Known Issues notice, updated March 24 (Tokyo time), contains a small fraction of the actual Known Issues. So for me, confidence is pretty low that PD will address anything meaningful. 👎

Mine still shows updated March 18.

 

[mastretta_mx]

As someone mentioned before, from a Corporate perspective silence is the best tool, specially is there is not a short term solution, that is why even SIE has been silent. Is looking bad for the diehard fan base but seeing on the showroom the amount of people with expensive cars like the Mclaren F1 or porsche 917K scapes... seems that people is spending money there unfortunately.

For the offline period, I remember that happened a couple of times with Sport, by itself is not a big problem, the situation here is that the offline problem happened at the same time that the MTX controversy

 

[nordschleife51]

Mine still shows updated March 18.

The PS5 GT7 Home Screen shows an updated KI notice, dated March 24th. So it was updated by PD in the past 4 hours or so. The key point is, regardless of whether it’s the 3/18 or the 3/24 notice, the known issues listed are not representative of the actual known issues.

 

[Supaboost]

I prefer the one where Kaz intentionally boycotts GT7 with terrible updates (knowing full well the outcome) to shove it back to Sony then gets his next paycheck buffed up to his standards (finally!) and slowly but surely fixes the game and the outrage. Kaz' been on our side the whole time fellas! Win - Win!

Irony being that weirdo nut job actually trhinks hes on out side, that his dumb ideas is what we want.

That in some magical farting ponies in the sky way, real world pricing in the game somehow makes the game better and we appreciate it.

 

[O604]

My guess is they are feeling things out. They are probably looking at hard numbers.

The longer the wait, the more I think they may be seeing a overreaction from a vocal minority. To gamers in a gamer bubble this is huge. Unlike most other games, not everyone who plays GT is in that bubble.

 

[MonoTonouS]

The pricing in this game has some flaws, you can get that fully tuned RX7 for less than the stock one . And the RX8 and R35 are CHEAP cars depsite , arguably, being monsters for what they are .

 

[EES]

They're always silent. Pure arogance from Kaz. He knows better, or so he thinks.

 

[Streeto]

If you have played the series you should know PD have a history of prolonged silences, the times when we hear from them the most is usually the few months up to release of a new game.

 

[mrPetros]

A lot of silence on the part of the PD these last few days. Is this an indication of an update bringing new events with better prizes or is it more of an empty update fixing minor bugs? What you think will gonna happen in the next months?

One can only guess at this point, but personally I think that
a) "letter from kaz" wouldn't have happened if game was not rendered useless for 30+ hours so early in its life (maybe to avoid grounds for refunds), and on top it was basically corpo ******** talk
and
b) the fact that they flooded the game with practically unobtainable 12-18 million cars right after game was back online, with payouts heavily nerfed,

shows to me that for now they are trying to pass this as is, using a kind of "shock treatment" to the customer.


I'd love to be wrong of course, but this is kinda what I see right now

 

[mwoodski]

The pricing in this game has some flaws, you can get that fully tuned RX7 for less than the stock one . And the RX8 and R35 are CHEAP cars depsite , arguably, being monsters for what they are .

This would reflect in the real world though. A highly modified and tuned car will always go for less money than a factory pristine one.

 

[VXR]

They did so well - relative to their past - in engaging with GTS. The car silhouettes were definitely an engaging thing to do, and they were posted by Kaz. He seemed to turn a corner.

This whole debacle is like reversing back into the pit lane.

 

[Pizzicato1985]

If they are going to charge real world pricing and the prices are current they should have AT LEAST PUT IN CURRENT CARS, NOT CARS FROM 2017. What a JOKE!

New cars?! The entitlement...
Getting new cars to the franchise would require money. PD wants to shake people down for money, not spend it improving their outdated franchise! lol

 

[MonoTonouS]

This would reflect in the real world though. A highly modified and tuned car will always go for less money than a factory pristine one.

No, the RE 7 is the holy grail of 7's . IF there was a 0 miles Spirit and a 0 miles RE the RE would command more, Thats like saying a zero miles vanila Mustang would cost less than a 0 miles Shelby mustang . the shelby mustang is modified but still commands $$$. The body kit alone is like 30,000$