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Why doesn't PD make it like GT5 in which a single event pays out 1,000,000 cr for gold with bonus?
*P.S: PD already does that when they add a new car to the game. Get a good result, and the car is yours.
Why doesn't PD make it like GT5 in which a single event pays out 1,000,000 cr for gold with bonus?
Well when one has kids with there after school activities etc. Then buy the time you get them home feed them home work, it's 10 o'clock & you finally settled down, & all one can do is run around in circles to make money just to try and advance in a game it gets a little frustrating my friend the time just isn't there anymore like it use to be.
Yes I enjoyed running that championship and running the Red Bull car. I didn't run all the races back to back to back, I would generally run the championship in sets of 5 with some car buying and Laps around The Ring in between.I don't grind, so I'm using the above figures and I calculate that means you've run the same race over and over for 30 hours, just to earn credits so you can buy cars that you actually enjoy driving and racing. And you say you enjoyed that?
Payouts don't hinder your enjoyment you mean. For someone that doesn't enjoy grinding or the horrible offline career, credits are extremely hard to come by if you want any sort of a decent garage with a variety of cars. If you only have a handful of hours each week to spend driving, the last thing most of us want to do is spend any portion of that time running the same races over and over and over. Let's hope that GT7 comes with a Sandbox Mode, where everything is available from Day 1 if you want it to be.
I don't grind, so I'm using the above figures and I calculate that means you've run the same race over and over for 30 hours, just to earn credits so you can buy cars that you actually enjoy driving and racing. And you say you enjoyed that?
Ok, let's look at the real figures.I don't grind, so I'm using the above figures and I calculate that means you've run the same race over and over for 30 hours, just to earn credits so you can buy cars that you actually enjoy driving and racing. And you say you enjoyed that?
That's closing in on 2 hours a week, for some of us that's a significant portion of our game time. Add in the time it takes to buy cars, paint and add parts and there's very little time left for doing what we bought the game for which is driving and racing. It's fine if you have 10+ hours a week but some of us don't.
You're a good driver and a good tuner. You got there by lapping over and over in one way or another. Do you feel you paid your dues in earlier versions of the game and should not need to repeat the process now? Just carry on your hard earned experience and have access to things you earned long ago?
Thanks for the reasonable response:tup:👍
I didn't grind a single race in GT5, I took advantage of the SSR11 glitch and rubber banding Like the Wind with an X1 to earn all my money. Likewise in GT6 with the VGT glitch and I had every car I wanted and then some in the matter of a day. If I had to grind to earn credits to play, I would simply have given up on the game as grinding is simply not fun for me and I object to the very principle of it. It's literally a complete waste of my time that is only necessary because of poor game design.GT1, huh? I hear you. Yeah, I'm very new and not minding the crap because I'm still learning from it.Thanks for the reasonable response:tup:👍
It isn't about paying my dues at all, it's about me, and millions of others I might add, maturing as gamers. In GT1 it was all new and fresh, there were many fewer cars and events, everything was fun no matter what it was. As the series progressed in terms of quality and realism I expected the game to change along with me and it hasn't. It's as plain as the nose on my face that the focus of the game has shifted towards novelty features and manufacturer tie-ins and more casual users, and away from the simulation aspect of racing. I'm not talking about how the game looks here, but how it is played which bears little resemblence to real world racing. As the box says, it's really more of a driving simulator or car simulator than a racing simulator.
What frustrates me, and I presume others, is that GT can be much, much more than it is, with relatively little effort. Online desperately needs the Community Update and the ability to organize races and events directly on the PS3 instead of using a third party like GTP. Offline desperately needs some improved AI and a difficulty slider, along with some proper looking and challenging (if we choose to make it so) race series in it's career mode. More cars need to be made available more quickly so we can get down to driving and enjoying cars sooner instead of the endless grind for money.
And for the record, I will not grind
PD would never force us towards microtransactions, because that's just not PD, but they sure are dropping some huge hints suggesting they are the preferred method of playing.
I don't play videogames to "earn" anything, that's why I have a business to run. The enjoyment I get is from driving lots of virtual cars and competing with myself and others in races and TT's, not from acquiring virtual money by endlessly repeating races that aren't really races because the outcome isn't in doubt and your opponent is afraid to pass you or win the race. Your point of "play arcade or pay for credits if you don't like grinding" isn't a point at all, it's just being stuck in PD's 1998 mindset and not being able to see how the game audience is maturing and fulfilling the needs of all kinds of gamers, not just the handful that like grinding.
