It's not "sensitive" at all, to be honest. I think the main problem is that your argument, resting on your "question of will" proposal, isn't that far removed from this one;
If you're not willing to take into account that everyone has a unique situation in their life and has their own unique motivation for playing the game and what they want out of it - and that this is exactly the playerbase PD wants to have - then you simply aren't having the same discussion as everyone else here.
Which is why I originally suggested for the diplomacy of not offending the player base by grouping sport mode into maybe 3 groups by making it progressively more difficult, with the elite group catering for maybe 50-100 players. I still don't know why there is this fixation with driving for everybody because even when they try to make things as equal as possible, you'll still get the status quo anyway.
Anyway, like most conversations on forums, this isn't going anywhere and only causing anger. I've raised some very valid points which doesn't even invite inquiry from allegedly intelligent people who are sufficiently into their favourite game.
I can sound grumpy in my post, and there is a reason. The wheel brigade who keeps clamoring for a way to split the player base along a reasonably arbitrary line want to use financial investment instead of anything actually skill related. The general drift of the argument is that you dont want to race against me not because of my skill level, pace, racecraft or car choice. You dont want to race people like me because I havent spent as much money as you.
That's just an assumption and I'd argue the wheel brigade wants the split because the brakes, stock settings, choice of car etc etc, very much has the DS4 user in mind and not the wheel user, and many wheel users, like me don't want to drive cars that drive straight on and refuse to slide simply because PD and the DS4 users want everyone all racing together. Heck, some even drive straight on when you max everything towards oversteer. This is stupid and I don't care for the separation of players based on the equipment we use, but on the conditions that everyone is forced to accept.
And as for a wheel, you could get something ok from the US or Europe for less than $100. There's nothing to stop you from asking around in the GT community for someone known who is selling something suitable.
To be fair, Sony has not helped as I've mentioned, goodness knows how many times now, that I don't think the DS4 is adequate for sim racing. It is ok and very versatile for a bit of craic on games like GTA etc. Even if everyone used a DS4, they would still be compromised anyway mostly because the sticks are far too short for precision and proper control. Sony or someone else could easily design a budget controller for sim racing that would be comparable to the average wheel.
BTW, my setup totals about 500 quid.
Get over it. Go play iRacing or ACC where you do get speed advantages by spending large for setups. Both of the main people arguing for wheel separatism claim to like GTS for pick up and play and full grids and frequent races. All of those go away if you divide by input.
I say again. GTS is based on the idea of racing for everyone. You don't agree with that even remotely so why are you playing the game?
I would, but to get started with something I'm not sure about I'd need to spend 2K to run the game to give it a proper chance for evaluation. ACC has hardly any numbers as far as I know and then there's an issue with the yaw speed relative to the pov which makes it tricky (PD has always had this right).
And I've not raced online for about two years.
Coming from you who….is world tour fast but “can’t be bothered to get good because I don’t like the base car setups”
edit: where’s your will at??
Using blunt tools is tiring having got so used to sharp tools and predicting what they can do.
And having got used to that, I'd far rather race for mid place positions in a split 3 or 4 with conditions I prefer than for higher placings in a higher split using games and tricks they have no resemblance to real driving. In previous GTs, if cars were well setup, they at least required similar skills to that of reality to be competitive. This is within the capability of GTS with just a few tweaks.
