Who do I contact to complain about the Invite system?

[AngryYobbo]

I've put nearly 500 hours into this game and I've yet to get both the Ferrari and Bugatti invites. I paid full price for this game and put in my time so I should be able to get all the content I paid for and not have it locked behind a chance system. I've tried to find a place to email Gran Turismo, PD or Sony and yet at most all I could find is a stupid Live Chat on Sonys sight which isn't open at the moment and I'm sure will just be AI nonsense anyways. Anyone have any other idea where I can try to contact someone? I've heard social media posts but I also don't really use social media so I feel kinda stuck. Help!

 

[Famine]

I've put nearly 500 hours into this game and I've yet to get both the Ferrari and Bugatti invites. I paid full price for this game and put in my time so I should be able to get all the content I paid for and not have it locked behind a chance system. I've tried to find a place to email Gran Turismo, PD or Sony and yet at most all I could find is a stupid Live Chat on Sonys sight which isn't open at the moment and I'm sure will just be AI nonsense anyways. Anyone have any other idea where I can try to contact someone? I've heard social media posts but I also don't really use social media so I feel kinda stuck. Help!

You can't contact anyone to complain about anything.

We even wrote an article about it almost a year back and the system persists...

Gran Turismo 7’s Invitation System Is Broken: Here’s How We’d Fix It

The recent Gran Turismo 7 update 1.46 has again thrown a spotlight onto one of the game's least-loved mechanisms, which we think is long overdue an overhaul: Invitations. It's come to the fore again due to the new "Ferrari 12-Cylinder Engines" Extra Menu Book, which sets you a challenge of collec

www.gtplanet.net

 

[AngryYobbo]

You can't contact anyone to complain about anything.

We even wrote an article about it almost a year back and the system persists...

Gran Turismo 7’s Invitation System Is Broken: Here’s How We’d Fix It

The recent Gran Turismo 7 update 1.46 has again thrown a spotlight onto one of the game's least-loved mechanisms, which we think is long overdue an overhaul: Invitations. It's come to the fore again due to the new "Ferrari 12-Cylinder Engines" Extra Menu Book, which sets you a challenge of collec

www.gtplanet.net

So I'm just screwed out of content I paid for, what a wonderful system.

 

[Meythia]

content I paid for,

You didnt pay to have all cars at the start of the game.
You payed for the experience that GT7 is.
(Bad) luck sometimes is part of the things a game offers, and for some games it even is the core of the game.
Unfortunatly though for whatever reason, the decision was made and I dare saying only a single person on earth likes it this way.

 

[Famine]

So I'm just screwed out of content I paid for, what a wonderful system.

More or less, yes. It's the only pure-luck mechanism in the game.

If you want to maximise your chances, there are a few steps you can take.

Firstly, get your Collector Level up past 20, if you haven't already done so. This requires you to have bought or been awarded a total of 7,200,000cr-worth of cars. That shifts the Daily Marathon tickets you are awarded from 1-3 Stars to 3-6 Stars, and Invitations only come from 4/5 Star tickets.

Then complete your Daily Marathon every day you possibly can. Use Remote Play if you're not able to access the console and just do a lap and a half of Special Stage Route X in the fastest thing you have. You want as many 4/5-Star tickets as you can get, and doing this will generate about 230 of these a year (or 19 a month). That should give you 1-2 Invitations a month, or about three per brand per year, but there's no guarantee on what brand they generate and it seems that there's weighting towards and away from certain brands that differ from player to player

THE UPDATE/REFRESH TRICK. In essence ticket rewards are pulled from a table which changes every time there's a game content update. That means that it's possible to change what your ticket reward is (but not what type of reward), but you need to follow a very specific set of steps:

• DO NOT MANUALLY EXIT THE GIFTS SCREEN AT ANY POINT
• Open the ticket(s) as you normally would, to see what they contain.
• Keep a note of any ticket that generates an Invitation if it's not from a brand you need
• USE THE PLAYSTATION MENU TO SHUT THE GAME DOWN
• You can at this point re-open all the tickets you would have kept the rewards for, but do not open the tickets that generate an Invitation
• Wait until a game content arrives (keep an eye on GTPlanet's new page; we cover this sort of thing pretty swiftly so you'll always know when the next update is coming, but it's usually the final Thursday of a month)
• Install the update; if you're on PS4 maybe use the time to learn the clarinet
• Go back and re-open the Invitation-generating tickets
• Repeat from the second step next month

Very roughly one-in-ten tickets (other than credits, which never change) will change the reward, offering you a small chance to get a different brand from your Invitation.

 

[AngryYobbo]

You didnt pay to have all cars at the start of the game.
You payed for the experience that GT7 is.
(Bad) luck sometimes is part of the things a game offers, and for some games it even is the core of the game.
Unfortunatly though for whatever reason, the decision was made and I dare saying only a single person on earth likes it this way.

Incorrect, I paid for all the content in the game which includes all the cars that are in the game. I would argue that locking some behind pure chance, or most likely actually very low percentage programmed release, and not behind something at least that could be unlocked with skill or time is very akin to theft.

 

[AngryYobbo]

More or less, yes. It's the only pure-luck mechanism in the game.

If you want to maximise your chances, there are a few steps you can take.

Firstly, get your Collector Level up past 20, if you haven't already done so. This requires you to have bought or been awarded a total of 7,200,000cr-worth of cars. That shifts the Daily Marathon tickets you are awarded from 1-3 Stars to 3-6 Stars, and Invitations only come from 4/5 Star tickets.

Then complete your Daily Marathon every day you possibly can. Use Remote Play if you're not able to access the console and just do a lap and a half of Special Stage Route X in the fastest thing you have. You want as many 4/5-Star tickets as you can get, and doing this will generate about 230 of these a year (or 19 a month). That should give you 1-2 Invitations a month, or about three per brand per year, but there's no guarantee on what brand they generate and it seems that there's weighting towards and away from certain brands that differ from player to player

THE UPDATE/REFRESH TRICK. In essence ticket rewards are pulled from a table which changes every time there's a game content update. That means that it's possible to change what your ticket reward is (but not what type of reward), but you need to follow a very specific set of steps:

• DO NOT MANUALLY EXIT THE GIFTS SCREEN AT ANY POINT
• Open the ticket(s) as you normally would, to see what they contain.
• Keep a note of any ticket that generates an Invitation if it's not from a brand you need
• USE THE PLAYSTATION MENU TO SHUT THE GAME DOWN
• You can at this point re-open all the tickets you would have kept the rewards for, but do not open the tickets that generate an Invitation
• Wait until a game content arrives (keep an eye on GTPlanet's new page; we cover this sort of thing pretty swiftly so you'll always know when the next update is coming, but it's usually the final Thursday of a month)
• Install the update; if you're on PS4 maybe use the time to learn the clarinet
• Go back and re-open the Invitation-generating tickets
• Repeat from the second step next month

Very roughly one-in-ten tickets (other than credits, which never change) will change the reward, offering you a small chance to get a different brand from your Invitation.

Man that's a lot of work lol I'm way past collector level 20. It's extremely rare that I even get an invite to pop up in the daily tickets but I'll see what I can do with the tricks. Thanks for the info!

 

[Mafio]

..and this is why there's no one to complain to. Just keep playing...you'll get them. Unless, you don't actually enjoy this game THAT much, but thats a personal choice at that point.

 

[MatskiMonk]

I would argue that locking some behind pure chance, or most likely actually very low percentage programmed release, and not behind something at least that could be unlocked with skill or time is very akin to theft.

You paid for a game that locks certain content behind some kind of RNG, and you got a game that locks certain content behind some kind of RNG. PD have not taken any property off you.

This is not theft.

 

[Meythia]

You paid for a game that locks certain content behind some kind of RNG, and you got a game that locks certain content behind some kind of RNG. PD have not taken any property off you.

This is not theft.

With the own words: it can be unlocked with time, just the amount of time required is not known.
Nitpicking because of attitude.

 

[ZevZoq]

I thought that saving tickets trick didn't work anymore...

 

[AngryYobbo]

..and this is why there's no one to complain to. Just keep playing...you'll get them. Unless, you don't actually enjoy this game THAT much, but thats a personal choice at that point.

I'd put money on it that I could play the game forever and not get all the Invitations. No way should it take 500 hours and still not have them, especially when I've gotten so many damn Porsche and Aston invites. It should remove any invite from the pool when once you've bought all those cars at least. I have only seen the Bugatti invite show up once in a roulette that I can imagine

 

[Famine]

I thought that saving tickets trick didn't work anymore...

In what sense do you mean "work"?

It should remove any invite from the pool when once you've bought all those cars at least.

That would mean you'd never be able to acquire second, third, fourth etc examples of the car though. With engine swaps and widebodies being permanent mods, it's always nice to have an unmolested example spare.

 

[AngryYobbo]

You paid for a game that locks certain content behind some kind of RNG, and you got a game that locks certain content behind some kind of RNG. PD have not taken any property off you.

This is not theft.

Agree to disagree, I paid for a game that is about racing cars that have been know to be able to either be purchased or won through events in every past GT game. Not a gambling experience based on chance.

 

[ZevZoq]

In what sense do you mean "work"?

I mean I thought at some point in the updates over the past year the chance of a saved invite ticket giving a different invite from it's original result had been reduced to 0%.

 

[AngryYobbo]

In what sense do you mean "work"?

That would mean you'd never be able to acquire second, third, fourth etc examples of the car though. With engine swaps and widebodies being permanent mods, it's always nice to have an unmolested example spare.

Well how about you no longer need the invitation to purchase the car since you'd now be in that club of elites that are able to purchase it. Since Kaz wants it to be so life like

 

[Famine]

I mean I thought at some point in the updates over the past year the chance of a saved invite ticket giving a different invite from it's original result had been reduced to 0%.

It's around 8-10% for any tickets of any type except credits to change to a different reward of the same type. Last time I checked was January, when I had three active Invitation tickets at once and the Ferrari one became Pagani.

Well how about you no longer need the invitation to purchase the car since you'd now be in that club of elites that are able to purchase it. Since Kaz wants it to be so life like

One of many similar suggestions we put into our article!

 

[ZevZoq]

It's around 8-10% for any tickets of any type except credits to change to a different reward of the same type. Last time I checked was January, when I had three active Invitation tickets at once and the Ferrari one became Pagani.

Oh that's interesting.

 

[Mafio]

I'd put money on it that I could play the game forever and not get all the Invitations. No way should it take 500 hours and still not have them, especially when I've gotten so many damn Porsche and Aston invites. It should remove any invite from the pool when once you've bought all those cars at least. I have only seen the Bugatti invite show up once in a roulette that I can imagine

I doubt it. You know how many people have every car in every color?

 

[AngryYobbo]

It's around 8-10% for any tickets of any type except credits to change to a different reward of the same type. Last time I checked was January, when I had three active Invitation tickets at once and the Ferrari one became Pagani.

One of many similar suggestions we put into our article!

Well apparently I should learn how to read more lol

 

[Lomic]

This invite system ducks and there nothing we (as players) can do about. I used Famine's trick while I was hoping for months to get a Lambo invite, but so far none of my invites changed brand. It is worth trying though.

After 2 years, I finally got the graal and was able to buy the Veneno.

In the meantime I had plenty of Ferrari or Citroën invites.

There's a great disparity in my stats between invite brands. Ferrari and Citroën being 4 times more frequent thant Porsche and Lambo.

 

[Ryan81]

Sorry to hear about your bad luck. It took me quite a while to get all the invites and sometimes, I didn't have enough credits to even purchase the damn things 🤣 Keep persisting, it should eventually pay off although I completely agree with your sentiment.

 

[Zero2Oblivion]

Agree to disagree, I paid for a game that is about racing cars that have been know to be able to either be purchased or won through events in every past GT game. Not a gambling experience based on chance.

You need to shift your perspective, sir. With the Gran Turismo franchise, Kaz has focused on cars and car culture, through allowing you to experience and race various cars through-out the series, hence the tagline of "the real driving simulator".

For GT7, to really hone in on car culture, Kaz decided to make certain cars that are difficult to acquire in real life, difficult to acquire in-game.

Want that Shelby Daytona? Best get a job when you're 15 and start grinding away at life until you can afford one, maybe in your 40s. 'Best" way to translate that in to a game is give it a high price point and make races pay peanuts.

Want that Bugatti Veyron? Well that's a bit more affordable but still limited quantity, so chances of you owning one are still slim. Better, but slim. How to translate that in to the game? Either add it to the Legendary Dealership (I wish they'd done this and got rid of invite only cars) or make them Invite Only and make the invites rare.

End of the day, yes you purchased the game and all of the content. PD hasn't taken any of it away, it is right there in the game, they've just introduced game mechanics to make that content harder (but not impossible) to acquire, much like how those cars would be harder to acquire in real life. And they were upfront with this idea from the start.

It sucks, I still hope they do away with Invites, but chances are they're here to stay, so all we can do is grind away and hope.

 

[eran0004]

Incorrect, I paid for all the content in the game which includes all the cars that are in the game. I would argue that locking some behind pure chance, or most likely actually very low percentage programmed release, and not behind something at least that could be unlocked with skill or time is very akin to theft.

You also paid to have those cars locked behind the invite system (since that mechanism is also part of the game's content) so you did get what you paid for.

You will get these invites sooner or later if you keep doing the daily workout, per the law of large numbers, so the content will be unlocked with time.