UPDATED: Petition! - Who likes the seasonal pattern?

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Who likes the seasonal pattern?

  • Yes I like the pattern, let it continue

    Votes: 34 20.2%
  • No I don't like the pattern, please change it PD

    Votes: 134 79.8%

  • Total voters
    168
1. I could ask the same of you regarding A-spec. Why can't you just run the same ones you have got over and over?? Because variety, however miniscule, is the spice of life. I welcome it but I will not sit here complaining about a system that is not broken.
2. As was already mentioned, races are closed after a certain period of time. The fact remains: B-spec races net leveled car coupons(if all golded), racing helmets,racing suits, and approximately fives times as many CR and XP as offline races. We can sit here all day arguing semantics but I told you why I like the seasonal events. I welcome improvement. Its always good to keep improving. However, I refuse cry about something which is not broken and still remains the best way to CR and XP farm.

I think I'll have to give that one to SimonK - Humans get bored and Bots don't, you may as well just use the same B-Spec race, over and over, because you won't get anything out of a new race, except perhaps more credits/xp.

Exactly. It's boring for me to drive the same thing over and over but what does it matter to you what you're WATCHING your B-Spec drivers race? But then I'm sure I saw you say you don't even watch the races, you go off and do something else. So again, what does it matter which track and car your B-Spec driver is using?

Didn't you buy this game to actually play it yourself, not watch it drive itself to "farm credits and XP" as you put it?
 
Exactly. It's boring for me to drive the same thing over and over but what does it matter to you what you're WATCHING your B-Spec drivers race? But then I'm sure I saw you say you don't even watch the races, you go off and do something else. So again, what does it matter which track and car your B-Spec driver is using?

Didn't you buy this game to actually play it yourself, not watch it drive itself to "farm credits and XP" as you put it?

This!

I didn't bother to bold up SimonK's sentence because what he wrote is 100% true. I mean, the game is meant for you to play, not to watch your game play for itself. If B-Spec is only being used to leave your B-Spec driver to race for himself to farm for xp and cr, I'm sorry but that shows B-Spec nothing but boredom. :grumpy:
 
It's understandable that PD are going to dedicate time money and resources to GT6... HOWEVER and (that's a bloody big one) my main complaint(s) has/ve to be agreeing with several points raised earlier. The lack of tracks available on release that were on all previous versions of GT... come on talk about value.... El Capitan and some of our favourite Events our now missing. Its great to have Spa etc but recycling the same stuff is lazy and you used to be able to buy ALL the car models.
 
Actually I think they were dedicating a lot of resources to GT Academy 2012.

So maybe now we will see some creativity again in the seasonal races. Also, I enjoy the B-spec ones, but maybe one update a month for Bob would be fine. I would like B-spec a lot more if I wasn't already level 40 and there was something else I could work torwards. (Maybe new levels 41-50, and for each one you move up you get to pick any standard car in any color as your prize.)

P.S. Now that GT Academy has been released to the wild, maybe we get some DLC soon?
 
Just to clarify, there was a mis-quote there, so that was the other guy (you might've noticed, not sure.



I think I'll have to give that one to SimonK - Humans get bored and Bots don't, you may as well just use the same B-Spec race, over and over, because you won't get anything out of a new race, except perhaps more credits/xp.

The fact is, it is broken, and we can see this evident in the fact, that when PD cared more about the seasonals, we were getting 5 races a fortnight, with 2 TTs and 2DTs inbetween, now we're getting 3 races a month - that's a step in the wrong direction in my opinion, and you're very welcome to enjoy the new B-Spec races, and think that this system is better, however I'm glad to say that 80%+ don't agree with you, and hopefully if someone can find a way to turn this thread into a proper petition, we'll submit it to PD, and hopefully they'll get off their GT Academy craze, and move on to the rest of us.

So, you validate my point about the credits. Its broken yet PD is tracking who plays what and they haven't changed...Why are there so many crybabies playing games these days?
 
Tracking the number of users who drive the Seasonals doesn't tell the whole story. I tended to do them to earn big money to build my car collection. I have had all the enjoyment that was going out of those races, so I play the new ones when they come up. BUT I'd rather have anything next other than 400, 500, 650pp yet again! World Circuit Tours, the Japanese and European Classics and the Japanese GT series are all a lot more fun than the now dreary 400, 500 650pp formula.
 
Not me. I wish it was like the olden days, when there were actual race events not just the same aspec races on different tracks.
 
Sure I have said before my feelings on current Seasonal events, however am not gonna complain again. Have actually gone back to playing the main game on a different account, trying to get another collection going on there so I have something to do now at least. 👍
 
Notfx mike06: So, you validate my point about the credits. Its broken yet PD is tracking who plays what and they haven't changed...Why are there so many crybabies playing games these days?

Your tone displays a distinct lack of maturity my young friend.
 
Please give us a new type of A spec race this week. Anything but 400/500/650 would be good.

We are due for another A-Spec event this week, more than likely be the same format as the others and the prize ticket will be a LVL 16.
 
We are due for another A-Spec event this week, more than likely be the same format as the others and the prize ticket will be a LVL 16.

Oh deary, deary me. Sad to say you'll be right. Sigh!
 
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We are due for another A-Spec event this week, more than likely be the same format as the others and the prize ticket will be a LVL 16.

Yes but this is the 1/4 of the current seasonal plan that I actually like, albeit only partially (3 & not 5 seasonal events), its best to try and stay positive at the very least.

If I made a petition aat change.org would people be interested in signing it and having it sent to PD?
 
Yes but this is the 1/4 of the current seasonal plan that I actually like, albeit only partially (3 & not 5 seasonal events), its best to try and stay positive at the very least.

If I made a petition aat change.org would people be interested in signing it and having it sent to PD?

Me too, I enjoy the A-Spec Seasonal events although it wouldn't hurt them to mix it up a bit.

Petition, I fear it fall on deaf ears my friend.
 
Have actually gone back to playing the main game on a different account, trying to get another collection going on there so I have something to do now at least. 👍

This +1 +1 +1 Did likewise.

Plus you get to hang onto all the tickets available to be won this time around, instead of handing them in for vehicles without duping them.
 
I'm popping back into the main game to run races I either liked a lot or found very difficult. I also run these races with increasingly poor cars and/or tyres.
 
So, you validate my point about the credits. Its broken yet PD is tracking who plays what and they haven't changed...Why are there so many crybabies playing games these days?

You need to learn how to quote. For another thing writing well wouldn't hurt either. Firstly you seem to be agreeing with me, then you insult me and the other 91 people who also want PD to return their game to a more suitable seasonal release cycle, by calling us all 'cry babies'.

Well, I won't resort to that low level of name calling, but suffice to say, people being involved in a video game's continued development and enhancement, is nothing more than pure progress. In the past, games were developed, tested, and released, and they were good, but they always had bugs, and they always had new features that could've been, and when sequels came along, they always improved the games, but they didn't know which features to add, or which to remove until now.

So when we complain about what a game's doing, or more importantly, what a development company has done that negatively effect's a game post release, its important that the company addresses the problems, or less fans will play the game, and for a game like GT5 with DLC, that means less future DLC purchases, as less of those fans will be playing, because PD didn't address the issues they raised, and they moved on.

So listening to fans complaints makes sense on various levels, you learn about the market for future games, you retain people playing it, so therefore you're likely to have higher DLC sales, so there'll be more revenue for future game development and current game bug fixes, updates, and features.

Therefore, there is nothing wrong with a fan, or multiple fans, complaining to the software company which develops and maintains that said game, especially if they listen.
 
Well said Conza. To be honest I'm a little bit confused with the people that like the lack of variety in events. Maybe we should do a pole asking who wants the old seasonals from last year brought back. Would anyone say that is a bad idea?
 
The only thing i had left to look forward to when playing the game because i've done everything else-was the seasonals due to (as we are all well aware of) the severe lack of content in GT5...now with this what seems to be "standardised" seasonal formula, i'm not bothered if i play or not anymore. that is very sad because GT5 had so much potential.

The question i have is this, is this as good as it gets for GT until 6 is released, or will PD release a MASSIVE update to fix this?? i fear it will be the latter!
 
Maybe the pattern will change soon since we have now all tickets, only the ticket 0 is missing; or we get another circle, or at worst it stops
 
If you look at what has been done in the earlier Challenges still available to play, and the 6 yes, 6 400, 500 650pp Challenges. Its obvious that PD are either getting lazy or have run out of ideas. For me the hardest races in the now dreaded 6 Challenges were Nordschleife 650pp, Madrid 650pp and London reverse 500pp.

The first because the track is hard to learn

The second because the Mclaren in pole, when it's there, has such a lead by the time you cross the line that you have to slide past every car as and when you catch it, no mean feat on that circuit.

The last because my usual choices for the first go at a new 500pp are heavy powerful cars not really suited to such a tight track where to speed is not king!

World Circuit Tours has a 750pp Nurburg 24hr race with the whole of the Nordschleife plus the GP circuit. This is far harder than 650pp with lots of potential disasters because the cars are so much faster. So why bother with another in the new formula?

One final point is why are the races so short? 1 lap of the Nordschleife is several laps too short. With fuel and tyre degradation on, the races could be set so you have a choice of running RH and just making the end of the race, if you were careful or a softer tyre with a definite need to pit. Like in real races!
 
There have been a couple of challenging and fun races but not really enough

Agreed. I found the Madrid 650pp a real challenge to begin with. I enjoyed the 650pp Nordschleife and the 500pp Tokyo R264. So that's 3 out of 18.
 
Just to clarify, there was a mis-quote there, so that was the other guy (you might've noticed, not sure.



I think I'll have to give that one to SimonK - Humans get bored and Bots don't, you may as well just use the same B-Spec race, over and over, because you won't get anything out of a new race, except perhaps more credits/xp.

The fact is, it is broken, and we can see this evident in the fact, that when PD cared more about the seasonals, we were getting 5 races a fortnight, with 2 TTs and 2DTs inbetween, now we're getting 3 races a month - that's a step in the wrong direction in my opinion, and you're very welcome to enjoy the new B-Spec races, and think that this system is better, however I'm glad to say that 80%+ don't agree with you, and hopefully if someone can find a way to turn this thread into a proper petition, we'll submit it to PD, and hopefully they'll get off their GT Academy craze, and move on to the rest of us.

You asked a question. I answered. Then you attacked. I defended my position with good reason. You strawmanned me. Yes, that looks about right. Keep on whining about a video game and attacking me for defending my answer to your open ended question.
 
You asked a question. I answered. Then you attacked. I defended my position with good reason. You strawmanned me. Yes, that looks about right. Keep on whining about a video game and attacking me for defending my answer to your open ended question.

Well between your mis-quotes and anti-replies, I find it too difficult for me to remember, or frankly care to go back and find the proper transcript of why I was right, which suffice to say I very likely was.

I still stand by my overall thread, including all of my posts, and points, which others have also agreed with, bots don't get bored but humans do, and most importantly;

Seasonals were better last year, I want PD to change them back to the way they were, 5 A-Spec seasonals every 1-2 weeks, preferably 5 a week, but any increase over the current program would be an improvement - the petition's been started for all who support this idea.
 
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