Credit and Power Pack Confusion.

[eran0004]

But you are smart enough to understand that people can be led to mistakes, and therefore the responsibility isn't 100%/0%, right?

If you mislead someone you certainly share the blame. I don't think having two different items for sale at the same time qualifies as misleading though, especially not when it's clearly stated that one item is the Power Pack and the other item is 5 million credits.

It's not about the money to me, you can add a few zeros to the price and I'd never miss it in my bank account. It was the obvious attempt to take advantage of some people who didn't access the Power Pack the correct way or didn't read super closely.

That's not obvious at all. What store item is highlighted seems to be determined automatically based on date and alphabetical order. So the fact that the 5 million credits pack was highlighted is not evidence of an intention to take advantage of people who don't read.

The name of the content was not in fine print, so it's not that you'd have to read super closely in order to catch it. Just reading the name of the product would be enough.

I've personally never made an in-game external purchase, and didn't even know it was possible.

Put another way, had the $5M credits been a different amount, or a different price, or wasn't on the home screen, or didn't have the word "pack" in it (not sure how money is a "pack"), then this would be a very different conversation.

So you read that it was an add-on pack, but you didn't read the name of the product?

I'll go so far as to say that anyone who thinks this was an innocent marketing mistake are just plain stupid.

That's a stupid comment.

As if there are Gran Turismo players out there that would pay $29.99 for $5M credits and choose to NOT get 50 extra races with it. No such person exists.

The power pack is PS5 exclusive, so for PS4 players it's not an option to get the Power Pack. And then there's the case where someone might want to buy another 5 million credits after the Power Pack, should they buy the power pack twice? Is that even possible?

This latest stunt is just one more nail in the GT7 inequities coffin. It is what it is.

No, what happened is that you expected to see the Power Pack dlc on the home page and bought the highlighted product without checking what it was. Sony did not trick you into buying it, it was clearly stated that it was in-game credits and there was no mention of anything else. This is called expectation bias – your mind tricks you into seeing what you expect to see rather than what's actually there.

 

[UltimateLurker]

If you mislead someone you certainly share the blame. I don't think having two different items for sale at the same time qualifies as misleading though, especially not when it's clearly stated that one item is the Power Pack and the other item is 5 million credits.

That's not obvious at all. What store item is highlighted seems to be determined automatically based on date and alphabetical order. So the fact that the 5 million credits pack was highlighted is not evidence of an intention to take advantage of people who don't read.

The name of the content was not in fine print, so it's not that you'd have to read super closely in order to catch it. Just reading the name of the product would be enough.

So you read that it was an add-on pack, but you didn't read the name of the product?

That's a stupid comment.

The power pack is PS5 exclusive, so for PS4 players it's not an option to get the Power Pack. And then there's the case where someone might want to buy another 5 million credits after the Power Pack, should they buy the power pack twice? Is that even possible?

No, what happened is that you expected to see the Power Pack dlc on the home page and bought the highlighted product without checking what it was. Sony did not trick you into buying it, it was clearly stated that it was in-game credits and there was no mention of anything else. This is called expectation bias – your mind tricks you into seeing what you expect to see rather than what's actually there.

I mean, I'd retort if your responses were worth reading. Unfortunately, they aren't.

 

[eran0004]

I mean, I'd retort if your responses were worth reading. Unfortunately, they aren't.

I'm curious to hear how you arrived at that conclusion.

 

[Famine]

I'll go so far as to say that anyone who thinks this was an innocent marketing mistake are just plain stupid.

It's exactly none of those three things.

GT7's Featured Add-On (having actually gone to the trouble of looking into this) is entirely consistent with the Featured Add-On of every single other game that supports the Featured Add-On function, at least since the change in mid-2024.

People are determined to take that fact personally, which is fine. But for some it's to the point of abusing and insulting those who don’t, which is not.

 

[Thorson1987]

If you mislead someone you certainly share the blame. I don't think having two different items for sale at the same time qualifies as misleading though, especially not when it's clearly stated that one item is the Power Pack and the other item is 5 million credits.

That's not obvious at all. What store item is highlighted seems to be determined automatically based on date and alphabetical order. So the fact that the 5 million credits pack was highlighted is not evidence of an intention to take advantage of people who don't read.

The name of the content was not in fine print, so it's not that you'd have to read super closely in order to catch it. Just reading the name of the product would be enough.

So you read that it was an add-on pack, but you didn't read the name of the product?

That's a stupid comment.

The power pack is PS5 exclusive, so for PS4 players it's not an option to get the Power Pack. And then there's the case where someone might want to buy another 5 million credits after the Power Pack, should they buy the power pack twice? Is that even possible?

No, what happened is that you expected to see the Power Pack dlc on the home page and bought the highlighted product without checking what it was. Sony did not trick you into buying it, it was clearly stated that it was in-game credits and there was no mention of anything else. This is called expectation bias – your mind tricks you into seeing what you expect to see rather than what's actually there.

No, it's everyone else's fault that people can't read.

 

[Islaygaz]

How I imagine @Famine when he sees a notification from this thread!!

 

[JDMKING13]

No, it's everyone else's fault that people can't read.

Plain and simple… and you had to do multiple clicks to actually purchase it… Not one of them thought wait.. there nothing in here that say's power pack… It even had its own imagine which was clearly different from the 5M imagine.. SMH.. the blame game is crazy!