Amazing how much utility those technical partnerships added to the game.
While the checks were clearing, at least.
Hagerty's is there because it is a plausible marketing cooperation that can generate free press release publication by bored automotive and gaming websites more or less every time there's a game update.
To say nothing of the fact that they are trying to claim credibility when ascribing "market value" to infinite-quantity digital representations of real life objects whose value is correlated to their rarity, desirability and provenance; even if they weren't worth half as much when you try to sell them in the game.
What kind of an argument is this?
The game wants to simulate something that is present in the real world by implementing mechanics like these, but with its own tweaks because of its in-game economy.
Why does a Bugatti Chiron cost so much, there’s a unlimited amount of duplicates of this car you can buy, it just had to modeled once, so there’s no resources going into another digital duplicate if you buy one. They should set the price at 10,000 Cr, anything else is artificially creating a In-Game market just to sell MTX.
Why do some cars are so hard to handle, why do their tires wear out and the fuel tank get empty and I have to take pit stop while racing, there infinite amounts of digital fuel available.
You are questioning the whole concept behind video games, just in a very selective way.
The value of rare cars like the ones we discussed ain’t just estimated by their latest auction, sorry that was just a short answer from me, there’s some more to it.
The Giulia TZ2 for example got sold not even near the over 3 million you have to pay for it in GT7, I think it was about 1.5 or 2 million on its latest auction. But the specific car with its Chassis-Nr. you have in GT7 has a successful racing history and even seems to have the original livery on it. A interesting racing history, be it winning a lot of races, being driven by a famous driver or just have participated in a legendary race like Mille Miglia, Le Mans 24h etc. can give a lot of value to already expensive car and therefore create a big difference between the price tags of the same model.
For the Lamborghini Miura prototype I can’t find any results, but considering that a production vehicle already achieved over 4 mill $ and this is a prototype, something historically important to this already historically very important car, it is not far off that it’s worth what you have to pay for in GT7.
As for the GT40 Mk I, i can’t tell, it’s the road-going version, so the price seems a bit too high looking just at its latest auction results, but given that a race version already sold for over 11 mill $, it’s In-Game value also isn’t so far-fetched in my opinion. It’s a pretty rare car with a big racing history behind, even more famous now after the movie Ford Vs. Ferrari.
It’s sometimes unpredictable, the value and therefore auction results don’t rise in a straight line, last month a Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth got sold for 670.000€, that’s a huge jump from its previous results.
But that’s what something like Hagertys is there for, to give a clue of the cars value and the auction results it could achieve, at least as far as I understand it.
To accuse PD and their partners of just making these partnerships to make money out of it, is pretty one-directional thinking imo.
Things can be more than one thing, it can serve as a financial interest and at the same time bring something to the game.
If someone doesn’t like this or that aspect, there’s always this notion that this all is just a fraud or something, the worst allegations come up, this is the exact opposite of being objective.
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