GT5′s GT Academy 2012 Prize Distribution Schedule Released
Yesterday, the first prize (a Nissan Leaf) earned by participants in the GT Academy 2012 mini-game was distributed to players in Gran Turismo 5, but it wasn’t yet clear when the others would become available.
Earlier today, Polyphony Digital cleared up the confusion by releasing the following schedule which outlines the exact dates the other prizes will be distributed, once per week at approximately 07:00 GMT.
- July 4 / All Golds in Round 1 / Leaf G (GT Academy) ’11
- July 11 / All Golds in Round 2 / SILVIA spec-R AERO (GT Academy) ’02
- July 18 / All Golds in Round 3 / SKYLINE GT-R V・spec II (GT Academy) ’94
- July 25 / All Golds in Round 4 / 370Z (GT Academy) ’08
- August 1 / All Golds in Round 5 / SKYLINE GT-R V・spec II Nür (GT Academy) ’02
- August 8 / All Golds in Round 6 / GT-R Black edition (GT Academy) ’12
- August 15 / All Golds in Round 7 / GT-R Black edition Tuned (GT Academy) ’12
- August 22 / All Golds in Round 8 / 370Z Tuned Car (GT Academy) ’08
- August 29 / Bronze or Better in All Rounds / GT Academy 2012 Racing Suit
As noted in the announcement, once available, the prizes can be redeemed at any time between their initial release date and January 25, 2013. Thanks to RACECAR for the quick tip!
GT5 Photomode image by Des Foley.
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July 17th, 2012 at 9:44 pm - #AFS
the qualifying period to get the car is over.
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July 12th, 2012 at 11:11 am - #Chris_Leeman
I missed the GT Academy. I was offline for a long time. Is there a way to get the cars after this event was closed?
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July 11th, 2012 at 10:44 am - #shoryuk3n
wth! i havent been playing GT5 for at least a couple of weeks, and when i came back all my data has been lost…now the only car i have is the Toyota 86 GT ’12
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July 11th, 2012 at 8:17 am - #KilzoneStrife
When it boils down to what we want, lets all be honest. We all want a polished game, like the GTs of the past, Thats all.
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July 11th, 2012 at 2:41 am - #lalaurentide
Coming from a developer that still can’t program a menu I’m not surprised.
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July 11th, 2012 at 1:33 pm - #jaytmtb
Yes, PD need to get there act together on the menus in GT, they a clunky, slow,
and they look like someone with a basic knowledge of web design put them together.
That said, GT5 is the best game ever.
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July 11th, 2012 at 12:18 am - #Quakebass
…And we’re still getting DLC wish lists here, in the wrong area…
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July 11th, 2012 at 9:19 am - #chevelleSS396
That’s because racers want useable DLC, premium content that should’ve been in the game since the beginning!
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July 12th, 2012 at 1:56 am - #Quakebass
YES, But there are other, more useful places to do this! Kaz/PD are most likely to check the feedback and forums section first.
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July 10th, 2012 at 10:29 pm - #tpark103
Anybody get the new car yet???
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July 10th, 2012 at 10:30 pm - #tpark103
Never mind I’m a day early :-(
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July 10th, 2012 at 4:52 pm - #Youngun
Coming back to the Link i posted earlier, I wouldnt care much if GT6 wasnt a vast improvement on gameplay or graphics but just a new game with new cars (including the Orignial Prems, DLCs, Standards to Prems plus New models that people actually WANT), new tracks, new events, and a slightly new way to do things (search, online, create etc)
It saves rather than wait every little month for next to nothing, i would gladly pay another £40 for a bunch of new tracks, a game without standards and a new A-spec, B-spec mode that have relevance. GT7 could be the leap in graphics and gameplay with 1000s of unique cars (actually unique and not every year of production). GT3 & GT4 wasnt too different and GT1 & GT2 didnt change drasticaly. i no what your think, DLC run games but surely, i dont kill me for this, Activision have something with COD by having change but not spending a fortune on it MW1-3 all the same just new maps, guns, and basic set-up.
GT6 for PS3 & GT7 for Ps4 (with new wheel including handbreak and paddleshifts that DONT rotate).
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July 10th, 2012 at 10:23 pm - #tpark103
Double plus UNO
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July 11th, 2012 at 12:14 am - #Quakebass
Only one flaw I noticed; People are being disappointed by the “little changes” in the CoD games, but for some reason, some force is making them purchase all of the new games every year. The same thing happened with NFS, only now, since the games haven’t been all that great for the past 7-8 years, people are actually deciding not to purchase a new NFS game. I have a feeling that the same will happen to CoD is something doesn’t drastically change or improve.
Although, on the other hand, GT games aren’t like these series’ at all; they aren’t coming out every year, and there’s obvious improvement from game to game (well, not so much GT5). But considering PD’s past capabilities, they can pull a brilliant game out of their hats next time. They have the capacity. For now though, I think their current game is a bit screwed – there’s too much wrong with it to be fixed entirely, but there’s a damn good amount of things they CAN STILL DO to make this game better than it is now. I’m sure most of you have seen my rants…
Either way, PD will have to spend a fortune to make GT6 as good as or better than GT5 was supposed to be – there’s no “little changes” involved with it (no standards and/or under-featured content is unacceptable for a GT game, for one thing – this issue would likely take years to fix with GT5 considering how much work output is being placed into the GT5 department and being saved for GT6 development). Maybe for GT7 (or as Youngun said, GT7 could be another leap, then minor changes again) could have this small amount of changes like GT1 was to GT2 and GT3 was to GT4.
What I think PD should do is some sort of collaboration with another development company/studio to get work done faster. T10 did this with Forza Horizon, and it’s looking like that game could be one of the games of the decade – brilliant sim physics, great graphics, great car list, and racing situations most people can enjoy. It doesn’t look like it’s loosing any of it’s “Forza feel” due to this dev. collaboration, and I think the same would go to PD with GT6 or 7 fi they were to collaborate with another dev.
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July 11th, 2012 at 12:26 am - #Pit Crew
PD has def gotta consider implementing Regional Specific race Series like Alms DTM and the Australian Race series, with specific cars modern and classic. Im not sure if GT6 can afford a 60 percent Japanese car list and mediocre ASpec modes followed by a BSpec mode with no emotion. (I know hes an A.I. but bear with me).
PD Agenda for GT6 has gotta be more balanced to better accomodate a Global Racing Fanbase (console). It cant always be about Kazs favorite car or location.
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July 11th, 2012 at 12:41 am - #Youngun
agreed PD have the experience and the know how but dont forget between actual cod games is 2 years due to different developers which PD could do Tourist trophy one year and Gran Turismo next and split development through another studio, or add a third option with a more arcade/ Freerom line like forza did but its too ‘not PD’, making it then a 3 year life cycle (2 per console). Everyone mowned about the little changes to COD but year on year they out sell each other, Just like BO2 will do this year. and yes N4s went stale but i think its on the up again.
Even if GT6 isnt a huge improvement but an improvement none the less, I would buy. i would love gt6 to be a launch title but thats still over a year off so rather soon than later me thinks, Stop gt5 work and move to gt6, no one will be happy so just let it be. With the work left to be done they may as well great a new game. btw Wheres my Nike One PD? need more like this….. -
July 11th, 2012 at 8:00 am - #e30 freek
Pd should just make the good things better and forget about the rubbish
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July 12th, 2012 at 1:59 am - #Quakebass
^ No, I’d have to disagree with that. Think of it like practicing music: work on what you don’t know, not what you know to get netter at the piece. (Although in these terms, it would be “work on the broken or unfinished parts”).
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July 16th, 2012 at 6:58 pm - #e30 freek
I agree because then everything would be even good thinking but it would take time, but worth while
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July 10th, 2012 at 3:45 pm - #KilzoneStrife
Well, 90% of Turn 10s cars are apparently outsourced to Indian and other countries for scanning (might explain why many cars have the wrong lines, eg E36 M3,R32,R34,R35 Skylines) but atleast they get them made fast.
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July 10th, 2012 at 9:50 am - #Pit Crew
Wonder if Sony could hire a”temp” agency (Codewriters) to laserscan a list of manufacturers models for PD and send them the data to implement properly into GT5 DLC or GT6 Disc copy. Is that even possible ? Not an IT Guy, plus an off the top of my head Idea.
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July 10th, 2012 at 9:53 am - #Pit Crew
In anycase, DLC without a better Offline ASpec Upgrade will IMO feel hollow.
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July 10th, 2012 at 7:45 pm - #TeamCZRRacing
Any cars which are in the game have to be done by hand, which is why it takes so long.
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July 10th, 2012 at 10:27 pm - #tpark103
I don’t care if they came from India, china, Mexico, America, Germany, Japan, Korea, France, England, just make happen….
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July 9th, 2012 at 8:31 pm - #blackjack
It’s a shame, because excluding my region at this stage of GT5′s life cycle is giving me a real high probability of losing interest in this game altogether and not really bother about any further DLC. I expected to be able to do the challenges for the prizes at the very least, even if there wasn’t any localised leaderboards to be placed on.
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July 9th, 2012 at 6:29 pm - #mathieub33
Safe to delete GT Academy?? Hi, i would like to delete the GT Academy 2012 Game from my harddrive….. but i want to be sure to have all the prizes for GT5… so anyone know if it’s ok to delete it? because this game take near 4G on the harddrive and we can’t play anyway because it’s over… I guess it’s ok to delete it and keep the progression data to be sure to have the prizes…. I would like an answer Thanks
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July 9th, 2012 at 6:56 pm - #TeamCZRRacing
It should be, but don’t quote me on that. Do a bit of research and maybe see if you can hunt down a contact link on PD’s website and ask them about it before getting rid of the game itself.
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July 10th, 2012 at 6:52 am - #chevelleSS396
It’s safe to delete once you’ve finished all the challenges. I did it a few times because it was slowing my load times & even wouldn’t load sometimes. Your progress is saved on the hard drive!
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July 10th, 2012 at 8:36 am - #tacom08
Best to do it when you have all your cars
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July 10th, 2012 at 11:44 pm - #tpark103
I wouldn’t do it my friend.
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July 11th, 2012 at 12:10 am - #Pit Crew
IMO if Famine hasn’t given advice on whether to delete GTAcademy Demo, dont do it
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July 12th, 2012 at 6:36 pm - #ttfn
perfectly safe, i deleted and still got my cars come through…..
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July 9th, 2012 at 6:51 am - #metalheadnate
I would love more classic and new muscle car pack added
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July 9th, 2012 at 4:59 am - #KilzoneStrife
Good read, Youngun
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July 9th, 2012 at 10:17 pm - #tpark103
Agreed my first time reading it thanks for the read Youngun
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July 9th, 2012 at 4:54 am - #Youngun
on a slight change in note, anyone read this…
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/07/02/gran-turismo-6-what-polyphony-needs-to-do
lets hope PD staff browse the web-
July 9th, 2012 at 9:14 am - #DuskTrooper
That’s been posted numerous times before..
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July 9th, 2012 at 1:44 pm - #AnPrionsaBeag
… but it’s the first time I and probably many others read it. Thank you, Youngun.
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July 10th, 2012 at 4:58 am - #Rushton1996
Great read. I sure hope PD have seen this article and will take it into account while making GT6. I really hope GT6 is officially announced for the PS3 at the Tokyo Gameshow 2012. I mean, what better place to announce it? And finally, it better be awesome and announced for the PS3. I feel that I need to get more out of it and GT6 would be perfect for this. Thanks in advance PD.
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July 9th, 2012 at 4:52 am - #Rushton1996
PD, and Australian DLC pack would be nice.
Ford Falcon V8
FPV falcon
Holden commadore v8
hsv v8 clubsport
A few 2012 holden and ford v8 supercars and Mt Panorama. aka Bathurst.-
July 9th, 2012 at 7:03 am - #PIGBOY
yeh,brockys VK,it raced in europe too,there was a VL in the btcc also
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July 9th, 2012 at 4:35 am - #blackjack
Wheres the Australian Love Kaz? Do we simply miss out on everything?
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July 9th, 2012 at 10:38 am - #RobDoggy05
Its not just Australians that miss out..
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July 9th, 2012 at 2:16 am - #ICEYOU
I’m ready for Gran Turismo 6!
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July 9th, 2012 at 10:38 am - #RobDoggy05
hahaha! crack another one please :P
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July 8th, 2012 at 11:35 pm - #KilzoneStrife
GT1 through GT4 there was no “online patch” or DLC, but I was so satisfied with the car roster.
GT5..it took a year to make the game as polished as GT4 was on Day 1, so whats happend to PD?Sony need to fix the situation there asap.
If Sony can blow money on Wonderbook, and splurge +50 million dollars on Killzone game development (that barely sells more than a million copies) ,PDs team needs to be bolstered. And these stupid side projects must not hinder game dev time !
How many have forgotton?, at first we “thought” 1000 premiums, and what did we get?
Its the same kind of misleading info we got regarding car distribution here.
How stupid does PD think we are?
Wake up PD, we love the franchise, thats why we voice concerns, but Im sad to say, GT is slowly becoming a Nissan infomercial.-
July 9th, 2012 at 2:31 am - #ICEYOU
If Forza was multi platform I’m afraid that I would have left the gran turismo along time ago!
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July 8th, 2012 at 5:32 pm - #Wiki
I still remember GT1
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July 10th, 2012 at 3:41 pm - #R1SHORT
You could take out some aggression playing Dirt Showdown. It’s no sim but it’s fun.
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i drive this “July 4 / All Golds in Round 1 / Leaf G (GT Academy) ’11″
But i dont get car! were is it?
Cheated finnish players again?