Does PD staff ever check out GTplanet.net

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I was wondering if any body at PD has ever been on gtplanet.net? Or maybe Kaz himself. I would hope they do so they can hear all the complaints on more premium cars, and maybe they will get there stuff together and actually do it.
 
Or DLC content, tracks. Would love to know the answer as well!!
 
I'm almost sure that SOMEONE at the company watches the forums (fora?) to get an idea what's being said, what's liked, what's disliked, etc.

The latest update "fixed" some things that were complained about quite a bit - fully customizable gearboxes for one. In the past, we heard complaints that the Seasonal Events were too hard (the first two rounds WERE hard, but that made them both fun and frustrating in my opinion), so they got easier - then the payout was too much for them, so it got smaller. Now we get some low-payout races that have "suggested" tuning limits, and some higher-payout events that tell you what make and model you can run.

Stuff like this tells me they ARE listening.

On the flipside, it does seem like they're actually making it EASIER to dupe/gift/glitch/etc. Used to be, if you had multiple accounts and wanted to run the Seasonals (SE) on them all, you'd have to buy the cars on one account, gift them to another, which would gift them on, etc., after each account ran the event with that car. So five events a week meant five gifting/trading/duping slots were taken up. Now you can just put the cars to "Online" status, and they can be shared by any account in your Friends List. So PD have now opened up five extra trading slots per week for those who do this.
 
Kwicko, thank you for your input. Very much appreciated. I just want them to add DLC! It seems to me that if they're forum hopping with the rest of us, they would address this, putting money straight into their wallets. I have $20 us sitting on PSN account just hoping that one day............

As far as the duping. I had never thought of that aspect. Interesting. Not for me however, as I tend to a GT5 purist, liking to EARN every one of the cars. But an interesting and factual, (albeit dumbfounding on PD's part) take on that situation.
 
Not sure if or when DLC will come, but remember that GT5:Prologue *DID* add some new cars (Ferrari California, GT by Citroen, Lotus Evora) well after the game was introduced, so we know they have the ability to do so. I'd wager it takes less time to do a new car for the game than it does to do a new track - but of course they only have to do the track once.

DLC should be very do-able, though. Grand Theft Auto basically did "expansion packs" with "The Lost and the Damned" and "Big Gay Tony", so GT5 should be able to offer new packs of tracks and cars at some point.

Thing is, even doing DLC that way, it's going to take some time. Some have cited a figure of 6 months for one person to "map" one Premium car in its entirety, so even if you had a hundred people working on 'em, they won't appear tomorrow. And I would imagine that tracks will take longer still.

I'd love to be proven wrong on that, though!
 
Spacegoat
Based on what the lastest patch fixed, it shows PD are listening.
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Definitely the impression that I got from the latest update. And really, that was the first update I can recall that I liked pretty much everything in it.
 
drivehard
I think Koios is part of the PD staff???
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Wouldn't that be great?

Honestly, I'm sure that at least SOME of the PD staff check in on the boards. After all, they're gamers too. They're likely under some strict confidentiality bonds, though, and aren't allowed or encouraged to "out" themselves on a public forum.
 
Kwicko
Some have cited a figure of 6 months for one person to "map" one Premium car in its entirety
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That's just a lie imho, or it's the time needed by a PD lazy ass graphic designer. 6 damn months for just one damn car? That's a lot of time... simply too much. When rFactor 2 will come out, team of modders all around the world will prove they don't need 6 months for just one car. rFactor 2 will have very high quality models comparable to GT5 premiums. I think when PD will recon some competition, i.e. Shift 2 rFactor 2.. Yama will say his team is time to move ON.
 
dlc will come for this game, I would bet my house on it, in the next few months we will see more cars tracks ect and pd will make millions all over again
 
HKS racer
That's just a lie imho, or it's the time needed by a PD lazy ass graphic designer. 6 damn months for just one damn car? That's a lot of time... simply too much. When rFactor 2 will come out, team of modders all around the world will prove they don't need 6 months for just one car. rFactor 2 will have very high quality models comparable to GT5 premiums. I think when PD will recon some competition, i.e. Shift 2 rFactor 2.. Yama will say his team is time to move ON.
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Hey, I *said* "some have cited a figure". You'll note that I never claimed it as fact, because I simply don't know how long it takes to map a Premium car. That is the number that gets brought up most often though, from what I've seen around here.
 
PD staff members are almost certainly on these boards. It's in there best interest. It's the best feedback you can possibly get. Your making people test your game without even asking.
 
LR-MR-Cole
I was wondering if any body at PD has ever been on gtplanet.net? Or maybe Kaz himself. I would hope they do so they can hear all the complaints on more premium cars, and maybe they will get there stuff together and actually do it.
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The short answer is yes.

GTPlanet.net
GamesCom – The Yamauchi Interview

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Previously we’ve seen you say things about weather, lighting, skidmarks, that you’d add them if you felt they added to gameplay. How much is this the case, compared to community pressure (from sites like GTPlanet) to add things?

“It’s probably evenly balanced”, said Kazunori. We’d interpret this as a borderline tacit admission that our forums – and many other sites – form research for PD, especially with regards to features. We have, after all, seen a recent addition of real-time skidmarks and reverse lights in the latest demo builds, now that there is the software and hardware to achieve it.

At this point we were asked if we could wrap it up quickly – we were originally told 3-4 minutes and we were already near ten. So the last question was the question I’d decided (hey, executive decision!) was the very best “alternate” question we’d received.

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Amar212 strikes me as being very in the know. Every prediction relating to GT he has made has come to fruition. It can't be just fluke.
 
I read an interview somewhere that stated that "some of the classic cars would be brought up to premium, but new cars and tracks would most likely be for GT6.":indiff:
 

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