has the fun or satisfaction gone?

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Since we've been getting big payouts I've noticed I don't play the game as much as I used to and don't get the same satisfaction when buying a new car or upgrading one.

Before I'd have to make an effort to make the cash for a purchase whereas now I can just do a race and buy most cars.

A bit too easy in my view. Haters who just want the easy life need not reply.
 
The fun hasn't gone. However it doesn't feel that rewarding when you can earn the money for a 20mil cr. Car within a couple of hours, but if the seasonals are the problem you could always just grind the A-spec events.
 
The opposite for me actually, I had to grind my way to getting every car in the game months ago, then when I finally got them all I realised that there wasn't much left to do in the game except online racing so I started concentating on other games. Since the big payouts I've been playing a lot and have started collecting the same cars in multiple colours and for race cars one stock and one fully tuned version (sometimes even more) so the big payouts have basically renewed my interest in GT5.
 
Snapey
The fun hasn't gone. However it doesn't feel that rewarding when you can earn the money for a 20mil cr. Car within a couple of hours, but if the seasonals are the problem you could always just grind the A-spec events.
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I used to feel a sense of achievement when making a major purchase but now I find myself just buying anything that's there just because I need to use the money up.

I enjoy the seasonals but they've taken the hard work out of the game. Just my opinion.
 
I feel the same way, although at the same time it's made me focus on non-reward based things like running dirt and snow time trials (honestly my favourite part of the game right now) with tuned classic hatchbacks :) But the crazy payouts make it feel like GT's in it's endgame (i'm not saying it is, it just feels like it).
 
The level of satisfaction of buying a new premium car or finding that UCD car after recycling the UCD countless times has certainly dropped because it's too easy. With the B-spec seasonal, you can basically grind up 20 million in 1.5 hours. Not much of a challenge, especially when you don't do any work yourself.

Even the Enduros get less satisfaction because you can suspend the race and turn your PS3 off. You can hold off on GT5 for weeks and play other games without losing your progress. I remember I had to do the 24hr Enduro, and that was mad fun because I had the pressure to finish in 3 days or risk having a killer electric bill at the end of the month.

When something's too easy and you feel unchallenged, you're obviously not gonna be having much fun after a while. That's why I plan on staying away from the high payout events and enjoy each little event and slowly build up the credits to buy the car I want.
 
There should be an unlock all code available for all who wants to use it. Annoys the heck out of me I can't just enjoy the driving with any car without some stupid grinding / doing stupid AI races / seasonals etc. It's just a driving game for me.
 
Since when was the definition of "easy" changed to "not time consuming?" GT5 got much easier when the AI started parking for you. Nothing else has made the game too easy.

The fact that if you spend every waking minute grinding only the most efficient events you can now buy all the cars you want in one month instead of three hasn't made the game any easier, just less of an utter waste of time.

Buying cars - rather, driving boring A-spec races over and over to afford them them - was never rewarding. Making those races challenging is more rewarding, but makes money slower. Arcade races can feel pretty rewarding, as can a real good hotlapping session, but they make no money. Online - when it goes well - is the most rewarding, but doesn't pay as well either. Now you can spend more time doing those things, and less time passing parked AI cars for Cr. So if anything, the game has become more rewarding, not less.

Bottome line: [For me] buying stuff is not satisfying, Using it [to do something fun] is. So no.
 
Simple answer, there is nothing to do in the game. A-Spec was short. The reward system for the seasonal events is not motivating, the seasonals in generall are lame and not motivating. And online is an disaster.

Havent played for 1-2 months now and it won´t change until they add this freaking online leaderboard like in GT5P.
 
I've actually been playing the game more since money is so easy to make. Not having to worry about money and just being able to buy a car and enjoy it right away is a wonderful thing for me.
 
Negative Ghostrider. I'm enjoying it more than ever, it's still the best driver out there.
 
A very easy thing that PD could do would be to introduce a kind of "prestige mode" such that you can redo all A spec races with some new rewards (like new tickets, or anything else, even nothing except a kind of "prestige mark" on the event to see that you have done it), all with some additional restrictions (types of cars, tyres, pp ...). What I do instead now is to do everything a second time on a secondary account, trying to use stock or almost stock cars (I do the same for seasonal events to send me additional tickets). I know that we could redo the events without that, but "having new goals and challenges" is usefull in such games, at least for me
 
A spec in itself is a disaster, from the lack of events, the leveling system as well as the lack of restrictions in the races to the horrid AI.
I'm just confused about why PD have spent absolutely no time in improving the worst part of the whole game.
 
I think PD missed the boat early on when they made the online payouts so low. Running online for an hour and winning every race to gain maybe $100,000 was ridiculously low but I can't imagine the guys typically running at the back of the grid, who raced for an hour to make $20,000. Probably discouraged a lot of folks from racing online early in the game.

The A and B-spec versions of the game are well established and should continue, but should also have a difficulty level associated with them, and qualifying too, to increase the challenge. They should also more severely restrict the cars usable for the challenge, if only by PP level. What's the point of racing something that has twice the power and half the weight of it's competitors?

But in my opinion, the real future of the game is online and PD has missed the boat there in so many ways it's not even funny. This latest online bug, limiting rooms to 12 people or less and even with that, varying degrees of lost grip, is ridiculous.
 
I bought a G27. So the game has been renewed for me in general. But I don't have the time to run hundreds of races to buy a couple of mods. I'm into tuning now. Its way more rewarding to drop a half second in the quarter mile by messing with suspension. Its lame of me to setup my B-spec seasonal and go have a sandwich, but whatever I really enjoy the game
 
Sele1981
Simple answer, there is nothing to do in the game. A-Spec was short. The reward system for the seasonal events is not motivating, the seasonals in generall are lame and not motivating. And online is an disaster.

Havent played for 1-2 months now and it won´t change until they add this freaking online leaderboard like in GT5P.
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Go online. Meet cool people. ENJOY!
 
The fun has kind of gone. Online racing is still extremely fun, but it's just too easy to get whatever I want (except maybe the 20 million cars from time to time) and when I receive a new supercar or racing car, it really doesn't feel like anything as I already have dozens of them, and could buy a dozen more.
 

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