I literally said I play it to drive cars on tracks.
It’s everyone else that is unhappy that they can’t drive all the expensive stuff in the first week..
No, as much as you stomp up and down saying that this is why people are mad, people are mad because the game is more or less predicated on grinding in order to get anywhere because the in game economy is designed to inflate play time numbers to an untenable degree, and to also push micro-transactions into people's faces. Considering the fact that Polyphony
by their own admission designed the game around car collecting, the fact that one cannot really get these higher end cars unless they grind Fisherman's Ranch until they get carpal tunnel syndrome instead of playing the game naturally and getting credits that way (which also loops back around to the utter lack of content at launch, another pretty clear tactic on Polyphony's part) in order to get the Platinum trophy which, it once again should be noted requires you to collect the 330 P4, XJ13 (the overall subject of this thread), or the Ford Mk. IV, or 100% completion...sure says a lot, doesn't?
You forgot the rules around here, no one is allowed to have fun on Gran Turismo 7, they much all agree that the game is terrible and that Polyphony Digital are wholly incompetent or they shall incur the perpetually argumentative wrath of the same 5 or 6 users calling them a "circle-jerk".
As opposed to you, dancing around the fact that these criticisms are just, and are pointing out Polyphony's scummy tactics with regards to the in game economy, which are due to the full throated integration of micro-transactions into the game's economy?
There's a whole swack of positive threads if you want an outlet about how good the game is. There's also threads like this which are critical of the way Polyphony have created this game in order to ultimately fatten their pockets in about the most predatory way possible. Feel free to turn around and head into one of those positive threads if you can't take the heat of criticism.
We talking about a game.. not real life.. a game
By your own admission we can't criticize games. Besides, there's a war in Ukraine and starving children in Africa, why should we care about a video game developer making profits off the backs of 'weaker' people's FOMO and potential addiction problems? It's simply small fry stuff!
Cool, either believe in the DLC or wait 4/5 years till the next game?
lmao this is such a goddamn joke, pretty clear by this point you simply don't care about any other viewpoints but your own.
New content simply kicks this issue down the road considering the game, very clearly, is basing it's entire gameplay loop, outside the menus, on grinding. Sure, it means more people have more stuff to chew through, but it ultimately doesn't matter because no matter how long they take, they'll all eventually reach the same fork in the road that in order to get credits and to get the cars the game expects you to collect all of, otherwise there wouldn't be a car collection screen, you either need to grind out the most optimum race, endlessly, or take the 'easy route' and buy micro-transactions, which ultimately aren't an easy way out because if you want to go anywhere aside from the 2 million that you have to pay close to 30 dollars Canadian for, you need to buy more and more.
How can you not see how utterly depraved this all is? How can any of you that seem intent on defending Polyphony for this tactic not see what Polyphony are trying to do? And why, most of all, can I tell that if this was any other game, this forum would be apoplectic in their condemnation for that game, yet Polyphony does it and there are literal excuses made up to try and defend them, and posit themselves as just for making the in game economy that way?
This is hypocrisy of the highest order by this point, and it's utterly pathetic how people seem intent on dying on the sword of a company that doesn't care about them at all, on a feature and set of tactics that would be vilified if done by literally anyone else. And I've been on this forum long enough to know that is 100% the case.