Yeah, there was absolutely no reason for me to buy the game for $60 as it is now. Definitely should have waited until the first or second DLC bundle pack, Podcast be damned.
On the other hand, I bought a game around the same time that I had always wanted to play for nearly a decade for $2 and have been playing the hell out of that; so it balances out.
As an example when FM4 was released there was an issue where if you used a wheel to run a race on an oval track then 99% of the time you would get 0 credits and 0xp for the race no matter how many laps you had raced and no matter where you finished. This was a game breaker for those who liked to race only Ovals and used a wheel. It was over a month before they addressed the issue possibly 2 months.
Oh, you mean like when GT5 came out and the fully adjustable transmission didn't do anything remotely like its name suggested, and they fixed it three months later.
I don't even remember how long it took for them to fix that problem with cars that had AYC swaying back and forth by themselves. Last time I actually checked it still affected the Evo X.
There was also an issue with the 900 degree steering radius which also was present for a good while before they issued an update to try and fix it which caused other issues in steering that never were addressed.
Oh, you mean like when PD fixed the clutch in GT5.
Did PD ever address the fact that the PS Button failed to include the basic functionality of pausing the game when pressed like pretty much every other game made after in-game XMB was made mandatory in 2008; even though on the main wheel for the game the PS button was in a place it could be easily hit? I'd be surprised if they did, since GT6 has the same problem. What about the ability to
pause the game? Did they ever fix that with B-Spec?
There were also issues with the PI on several cars allowed them to have ridiculous amounts of power in the low classes and dominate the leaderboards, again quite a while before anything was done and when it was they simply removed them from the boards and blocked them from posting times only to find that there were other cars that had issues as well. Finally they changed the PI for these cars and wiped them all from the boards, I can't remember how long it was maybe 6 months after release before they got it kinda sorta fixed.
Oh, you mean like the Chaparral 2J and the 11 months it was in the game where adding 200 horsepower to the car that was already the fastest by far in its stock PP range made the PP go
down; causing it to be the only car used in pretty much any Time Trial it could be entered in.
Hell, remember how PP takes a small fraction of the modifications that you can do to your car into account even when they dramatically increase the performance?
Or how there are dozens of cars where PD didn't even bother getting the right statistics for when they first made them, and continued to make them wrong in every game since their debut? I'd say that leads to a pretty big issue for several cars' PP numbers.
PD has a pretty good track record so far with updates and patches, much better than the competition
It helps that they need to get so much practice.
Overall, there were more double standards in your post than in the Mazda dealership.
4/10.
The thing is, a game like this can be never "finished" because you can always add cars, tracks and features.
I certainly did like the Matchmaking, Prologue garage transfer (which was still listed on the Prologue website for over two
years after GT5's release) and leaderboards they added to GT5 (which people also claimed was "finished" on release despite how much of a disaster it was for 1.00).
A promise of features is not the same thing as actually
getting those features.
Maybe you missed the part where I said you should research it?...
Don't say that. You'll end up being given a Google Image Search link.
