Dang, those kinds of videos reached you? Honestly, I'm happy so many people are calling out Sony and the developers of
that game (I don't want to say the name anymore and it hurts
). There is a boatload of issues that have been exposed when the servers went down for over a day. Without it, only arcade mode and music rally are available to play. I can't even access my garage of cars because of this. I can't participate in single player race events. I can't customize my cars and tune them up. I can't buy cars from dealerships. It pretty much showcases how much of the game players actually have access to, especially for those who bought it physically like me. The reason why they're doing this is to avoid having people hack their save files, but is it worth it when only a very small percentage of them does it? And besides, you can't access the online features anywayif you're running on outdated hardware to do so or something like that.
Microtransactions are basically predatory to consumers and try to pressure them psychologically to buy them. A recent patch released literally
almost two weeks after the game came out had race payouts significantly nerfed when they're already bad to begin with. Even with so many people refusing to cave in, there will always be a small percentage of players called 'whales' that are willing to pay microtransactions just to get what they want, showing that these predatory tactics work. Admittedly, GT Sport has microtransactions too, but they work differently. You would pay real money to get a specific car if you wanted to. But it was easy to go around that because the races actually give out a decent amount of in-game credits. In
that game, you pay microtransactions to acquire additional in-game credits without the grind,
not to acquire cars directly. This is a huge problem when a car is priced in the millions. I looked at the playstation store and did a bit of math. Assuming you are to buy a 12 million credit car using only real money, you'd have to fork over
at least $120.
That's well over the price of the game, which is $90 that I paid for. That's downright ridiculous and wrong.
There's a game feature new to the series that's basically locked behind RNG: Engine swaps. There are roulette tickets you can get that are severely rigged and it's ridiculous to pretty much lock a game feature behind it. Bug, you may know that a Volkswagen Sambabus exists in
that game. It's possible to swap out its stock engine for a Porsche engine that can put out significantly more power. Imagine going roughly 250km/h in that thing. It would be scary in real life, but I would be laughing my butt off right now if it wasn't locked behind RNG. And I'm sure it'd make you laugh too.
I hope you don't mind the lengthy reply, Bug. I've pretty much grown up playing Gran Turismo and it's the reason why I like cars so much. To see it in a state like this made me feel so betrayed on a whole other level. I honestly can't look at the game cover without feeling sad, because it has some stuff that are genuinely good, but I can't support predatory pracitces like this. I might get back to playing
that game IF things turn around for the better, but I'm not holding my breath for it. It's made me very hesitant buying Gran Turismo in the future, if it'll even get another one at all. Money and greediness deserve to get thrown in the dumpster fire.
Yeah, I'm pretty miffed that the added Switch profiles are basically locked behind the online subscription which is ridiculous. It another way enticing people to subscribing for the online services. Gaming in general have been slowly shifting from game companies giving fun to being greedy and trying to squeeze pennies out of us. It's very sad indeed that Gran Turismo is heading down this path.
A lot of people around the world are barely getting by and things keep going up in cost. We paid for our game consoles, paid for the game, paid for the online service which is garbage to begin with, and potentially microtransactions if we simply just cannot wait. What more do they want?!?! Obviously, very few game developers especially the indie developers are different and we should support them since they focus on making games that are actually fun to play. I hate money and greediness.
Thank you to the both of you replying to my post. I'll say that I still love the Gran Turismo series, but that game is a complete disgrace in my eyes and to the series itself. My passion for cars hasn't waned at all after what happened and I'll continue to keep that passion strong.
