I do. It lets them do (and watch) races and gives them a chance to win and complete events, get rewards etc. It's easy if you pick a good car, but so is A-spec.
It's not easy. It's trivial.
The only way to get satisfaction is not to be aware of how easy it is. Or be deriving your satisfaction from some source that is not related to the "skill" involved to play the game.
Also, by timing the detailed inputs you can improve (or ruin) the lap times quite a bit, so it's not just a spectator sport.
But it is.
The point is that unless you intentionally cripple yourself, the vast majority of the time you don't actually have to do anything. If you're a complete novice then arguably anything you do has as much of a chance to make you lose as it does to "improve" your position (from the first that you've already got coming to you). So why would you?
Normally, racing defaults to "if you do nothing, you lose". Which is great, it gets people giving it a go because they couldn't possibly make the situation worse. In B-Spec, unless you handicap yourself then you already have the best possible result coming to you, so the only thing that can happen by you pushing buttons is you make yourself finish worse. In B Spec, if you do nothing then you probably win.
But B-spec can be really entertaining, on a different level.
Only if you're ignorant of the fact that the vast majority of the time you win by doing nothing.
It's similar to the rubber band AI in A Spec. You could drive fast, but why would you when the AI will let you win anyway? By driving fast you're actually increasing your chances of a major crash, from which even the AI's generosity can't save you. If you just drive like a grandmother, you've got a better chance of winning than if you drive hard.
I don't see why anyone should derive satisfaction from "beating" a game that is rigged to let you win. They may do so, and best of luck to them if they are. But if they're deriving their satisfaction from their feeling that their skill has helped them to win, then it's all a lie.
We have many games that just give the player free wins these days, hence the Farmville reference. It's fine, people enjoy those. But let's not pretend that the enjoyment is anything to do with any skill involved in playing, because there isn't any.
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I've done a lot of races in B Spec today. I spent several hours playing Heroes of the Storm with GT6 going on the other screen, and all I did was pick cars and select races while I was between HotS matches. I won all the races bar three, where I came second and just repeated with a different car.
Tell me again how this is skill related. All I did was navigate menus, the rest of the time I was playing another game entirely. There might as well have been a button that said "Click here, and in ten minutes you will be awarded completion of this race".
It was some pretty graphics to watch while I was dead though.
I initially thought like you, that it was a decent mode for drivers who for whatever reason didn't have the coordination or manual dexterity to be able to race competitively in A Spec. I thought it was a good middle ground of still needing input in order to win, but not needing to have super fine control of your thumbs. While it's not what I had expected B Spec to be, I could appreciate that something like that could be useful to a significant portion of players.
It's not true. You don't need any input to win. It's a free ride, unless you intentionally handicap yourself. These people aren't being presented with a challenge that they need to overcome, a skillset that they need to learn and utilise. It's a smoke and mirror show that attempts to praise everyone for being a winner.
I think that's a shame. I think winning isn't so sweet when you didn't earn it.
I am not and will never be part of the cupcake generation.
Trolling Bobby seems to be the main use of GT6's B-Spec.
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