Do you think we will get a big piece of single player content?

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I think this is a touchy subject as I know the majority of you are hardcore online racers, with the driving seats, wheels and you probably have a car shell made from boxes, but I myself love single player in GT and whilst I have completed all of the events, circuits, missions and licenses, I yearn for more than 3 new races a month as what seems to be the current trend with each update. .

Much like GT league, which I know is more or less going to be impossible to do again due to it already being in the game, just scattered about in the events menu, do you think we’ll get a good sizeable chunk of single player content from a future update?
 
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The events so far only go up to the National A license, not to the S license like they were in the previous games.

There was also another ending movie to be unlocked in GT3, GT5, and GT6 upon completing the final championship in the IA license.

So... I think they knew what they were doing here.
 
No.

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I feel like there is a lot of work on bug fixes and missing features going on, and that some content was withheld due to 'phonyD knowing they would be working on that.
Once the game is in a place they are happy with, then maybe we get a bit more. Or a chunky v2.0 (B-spec?) update even!
 
I certainly hope so, but I wont hold my breath. Ill echo a possible Spec 2.0 but even then I will remain skeptical of any significant changes and likely to be more of a Greatest Hits rerelease with all content to date. Good if your are new to game but may not mean much for those that stuck around from the beginning.
 
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Didn't GT6 also have a "Coming Soon" quick race that never came?
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I don't recall. I remember that the quick race had five events. It came late in the lifecycle. I don't remember if they were all active though. It may have been only three of the five.

PD moves at glacial pace... We all asked for engine swaps during the GT5 hack a decade ago.
 
Three races a month seems to be the direction, but I decided to take a quick look at the races available in GTSport. 7 still has fewer races? And this game was supposed to come out last year? What have they been doing? You can't even go "oh I'll just play some of the races in Sport with the custom race option" to give the single player stuff more legs. You have to buy the cars to allow the AI to use them, so unless you've settled for a grind, even this option isn't happening.

This game needs a monumental update. Feels like all of the wind the game had has flown by the sails this game had at launch and just squandered. Still can't sell cars, still get cars that have no function for single player be it they're a kart or something with super high PP that might only have value in the Missions.
 
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No. Long term point of view, right? We're being drip fed for the next 5 years. Of course, assuming PD doesn't decide they'd rather sell a new game instead.
 
They put out an early update of solo content in GT Sport with hundreds of races. Just feels like that’s not the intention with GT7.

I just dont get it as the online doesn’t seem to benefit really with the online trophies being very low. 15% of players have even completed a Sport mode race. 1.9% have done 50 races since it came out in March.
 
I feel like we’ll never see a massive update where they’ll include a bunch of new cars, events, tracks etc, at once and they’ll continue to give these small updates consistently for years to come. Not only does it allow them to take more time to complete things (even if they are still bugged, which they are) by allowing them to work on multiple things at once and just include what is “done” in the next update, but it also seems to be the way more and more games are headed these days with a consistent supply of small/minor additions to keep people playing or at least coming back every so often to get all the new stuff. For those that play every day that new content gets old within a few days, but for those that occasionally play it kind of works out. Not defending PD or saying it’s my preference by any means, but it appears that’s the plan at this point the way they are methodically and rather predictably releasing the updates.
 
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I feel like we’ll never see a massive update where they’ll include a bunch of new cars, events, tracks etc, at once and they’ll continue to give these small updates consistently for years to come. Not only does it allow them to take more time to complete things (even if they are still bugged, which they are) by allowing them to work on multiple things at once and just include what is “done” in the next update, but it also seems to be the way more and more games are headed these days with a consistent supply of small/minor additions to keep people playing or at least coming back every so often to get all the new stuff. For those that play every day that new content gets old within a few days, but for those that occasionally play it kind of works out. Not defending PD or saying it’s my preference by any means, but it appears that’s the plan at this point the way they are methodically and rather predictably releasing the updates.
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If this is the case. then i fear the only way to really enjoy GT7 for a long period of time, will be to start a new game several years from now.
 
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BangsMcCoy
I feel like we’ll never see a massive update where they’ll include a bunch of new cars, events, tracks etc, at once and they’ll continue to give these small updates consistently for years to come. Not only does it allow them to take more time to complete things (even if they are still bugged, which they are) by allowing them to work on multiple things at once and just include what is “done” in the next update, but it also seems to be the way more and more games are headed these days with a consistent supply of small/minor additions to keep people playing or at least coming back every so often to get all the new stuff. For those that play every day that new content gets old within a few days, but for those that occasionally play it kind of works out. Not defending PD or saying it’s my preference by any means, but it appears that’s the plan at this point the way they are methodically and rather predictably releasing the updates.
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I largely agree with you on any upcoming big releases, and I absolutely agree with you that this is the way forward for the developers of many games.

What frustrates me though is that this game is not finished. I completely understand that keeping players engaged with monthly dlc is a sensible strategy to extend a game's life cycle. The problem here is the game is largely unfished with no end game content and many issues to work out for online players. Forget keeping players engaged, I just want my moneys worth for my purchase! I did not receive a complete game. Monthly dlc is necessary to deliver what the developers didn't add before launch. Anyone representing this as a gift or as bonus material is being very disingenuous.
 
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shenfrey
If this is the case. then i fear the only way to really enjoy GT7 for a long period of time, will be to start a new game several years from now.
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This is bang on the money. PD have not changed, and will not change. Especially now after their 'effort' with the 25th anniversary of their series.

These pathetic 'fReE' updates are just a slap in the face to the GT community. I mean come on, what has the game got in terms of single player content in the last 3 months? Some 1 hour endurance races that are damn missions, effectively making those a one time only affair. 4 decent paying events that are so far out of whack with the rest of the economy that a lot of players are doing exactly what Yamauchi didn't want them to do, which is "mechanically replaying the same events over and over". Then we get the VGT series and Gr.1 series which was about an hour and a half of gameplay, after that came the Glen update with even less single player content again. A whopping 40 minutes. All of these updates being a MONTH apart! All mixed in with a huge dose of PD's classic radio silence and ignorance to the player base, served up on a platter of the worst AI of any racing game to date, sprinkled with no development road map, a healthy serving of mind bending design choices, all that and more on a golden bun of shady implementation of the most greedy macrotransactions I've ever seen in a racing game.

**** even the patch notes are so bad that each month there is an "undocumented changes thread" right here on GT Planet. PD can't even be assed to properly document to their customers what they've changed, fixed or broken. Yet another half assed aspect of this cash grab.

All this in "the most complete Gran Turismo to date" Get the **** out of here with that. The only thing complete about this game is the price, $125AUD.

Damn, they have provided me with the single biggest disappointment in my gaming history. I've never bought into the hype and looked forward to a game more to then been completely let down and frustrated. I hate the fact that my favorite driving franchise of all time has fallen victim to this garbage. For now, my time with GT7 is at an end. Deleted from the PS5. I'll re-install when there is enough single player content to warrant doing so, but judging by the pace at which PD work, that wont be for years to come.
 
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