What effing contract? PD designed the game, not Nissan.
PD planned out the event structure, not Nissan.
PD is issuing out the patches, not Nissan.
Do you see the trend here? Nissan. Doesn't. Have. Any. Involvement.
Because maybe Polyphony came up with the idea of the GT Academy and so approached various car maunfacturers to sponsor it. The nature of the competition dictates that all players must use the same car in order to keep things fair, so having them use a car made by the sponsor is a natural extension of that.
A mod needs to do it. This was originally in Q&A, but it was moved out because it was in the wrong subforum. It's unlikely it will be put back.
Does anybody else have an image of KrazyM82 dressed all in black in the middle of the night and crouched behind a crate of soemthing that smells fishy? Holding a small torch in his mouth, he quickly rifles through the pages of a manila folder stamped with a big red CONFIDENTIAL across the front. Sweat starts to bead on his brow as he can hear the sounds of German Shepherds barking as they search for him. He flicks the torch off and holds his breath as an armed guard races past, oblivious to his presence. In a moment of silence, KrazyM82 breaks cover, running across the pier at a crouch to a shipping container. He peers around the corner, giving him a clear view of the inside of a brightly-lit warehouse. Kazunori Yamauchi is there, being held at gunpoint by a group of armed heavies. KrazyM82 whips out his camera, using the telephoto lens to zoom in on the suit commanding the thugs. A corporate body from Nissan. He rattles off a dozen pictures of the scene, before shouts arise from behind him. He's been made. The thugs in the warehouse instantly turn their attention away from the hapless Yamauchi, and the chase begins. KrazyM82 scrambles through the docks, running in a zig-zag pattern to make it harder for his pursuers tocatch up with him. He stumbles and drops the camera, destroying whatever proof he had of the transaction. Picking himself up, he resumes his flight, weaving around the abandoned warehouses and shipping containers before he gets to the edge of the pier. Without a second thought, he launches himself off it in a graceful dive into the dark waters below, before swimming towards the inflatably dinghy that he used to get here, tied up under the pier. It's not there. In his panic, he looks around for it. The light of a passing tugboat betrays its silhouette, tied up under the next pier over - in his haste to get back to his boat, KrazyM82 has dived off the wrong pier. He now has to swim the fifty metres to the boat, but the guards and the dogs are marshalling on the pier above him, commanded by the corporate suit from Nissan. KrazyM82 has no choice; he starts to swim out from under the pier. Automatic gunfire opens up straight away, and he dives under the surface. He's seen enough Jason Bourne movies to know that bullets lose their velocity in two feet of water. He surfaces for breath and instantly feels the thwip! of a bullet as it just misses him. That was too close. Taking a deep breath, he dips back under the water and keeps swimming for the boat, surfacing once more for air. The bullets are less of a danger now; the darkness obscures him and the tide is coming in, meaning heavier waves move him about. He finally makes it to the boat and ungracefully hauls himself over the side. Regretfully, he starts the boat up. His camera is lost, and the documents that led him here destoryed by his swim. But it is too dangerous to go back now. The boat's motor catches life, and he steers himself out from under the pier and races away into the dark night. His next destination: the forums, to share what he has seen. He has no proof to substantiate his claims, but who would make up a story like this?
More proof is needed. So far, all you have managed to do is demonstrate that Nissan and Polyphony worked together. You have shonw no evidence of your initial claims, that Nissan influenced the content of the actual game by having events removed and forcing players to grind for experience.
