Payouts are low but I pledge not to buy credits. Who's with me?

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The credits are pretty pricey.
And whatever, even if they were cheap, it's not really something I'd think of as a priority even if I had enough money to just toss around, and I don't.
So I guess you could say I'm pledging by default. :lol:
 
I like the payout amounts as they are. It makes the Aventador you just saved up and bought, feel all the more special. All my fondest memories of the old games were slowly building up your garage slowly winning races, why the big hurry to get to the end game?

If you find the AI too easy to beat, and the races tedious then use a car well under the PP limit.
 
The 250 GTO is calling me. But with this credit system I'm never getting it unless they start doing million credit seasonals...
 
why the big hurry to get to the end game?

If you find the AI too easy to beat, and the races tedious then use a car well under the PP limit.
That's all well & good, and I do use underdog vehicles as a rule. I used that Fit I had to buy for just about everything I could. Unmodified, and without buying tires.

But some of us are anxious to get the 1500 Biposto Bertone & the Rocket & race it online with our pals.

(That said, I haven't even heard from any pals if they want to do such a thing, in which case I probably should calm it down a notch. :odd: :guilty: ;))
 
I agree, if anything this will increase the gameplay of Career mode and the satisfaction of finally having enough money to buy an exclusive car.
 
I will never purchase Credits either. Payouts may be low but I will just have to be more thoughtful in my car buying. Besides, earning enough for some special car you've had your eye on for ages is a great feeling. Particularly when it appears after you click Purchase.

I'll probably not drive some decent cars as a result but oh well.
 
Its not going to help. There are far more people who will use the microtransactions than those who won't.

I bought the 10$ pack today. Why not? I didn't want to grind and instead got the car I wanted fully tuned for that price. I hate micro-transactions of course, but the temptation was too much so saying its optional really doesn't cut it for me.
 
Its not going to help. There are far more people who will use the microtransactions than those who won't.

I bought the 10$ pack today. Why not? I didn't want to grind and instead got the car I wanted fully tuned for that price. I hate micro-transactions of course, but the temptation was too much so saying its optional really doesn't cut it for me.

Lolwut

You can't be serious. Purchasers are a huge minority and you clearly don't hate micro transactions if you just paid for one.
 
So the payouts from races are fairly low and, unlike GT5, they are no higher in the seasonal events. Sony have claimed that micro-transactions in the form of credit purchasing isn't "required' for GT6, yet the low payouts contradict this. I, for one, am voting with my wallet and pledge not to play their game and purchase the credits. Let's send a message! Who's pledging with me? We don't want the GT franchise to turn into Forza 5.
Gt5 credit income was ridiculous... IMO GT6 is set up (credit wise) very similar to GT1-GT4. Only difference I can find thus far is the other iterations always had a race or two that gave a large credit amount in a minimal or average amount of time and difficulty. GT6 just seems to be difficult all the way through...which I'm OK with. I am with you
 
Its worth $10 to me to get cars that are more fun to drive.
To each his own. The cars I find most fun to drive are usually well under 100K Cr. Easy enough to acquire without paying real money. The micro-transactions are not worth it to me, Plus I need that money to build a new PC.
 
I'm with you. I will not be buying in-game credits, period. I don't support micro-transactions whatsoever, or should I say, I'll never support micro-transactions.
 
ATTENTION KAZ AND PD.

I SOLEMNLY SWEAR TO NEVER USE REAL MONEY TO BUY GAME CREDITS. This is an utterly unethical feature, and should be abolished. I've paid for the game and everything currently within it, such as it is. The developer's work is done, and what they have done and made accessible to me, I have paid for. This is tantamount to a post-sale surcharge. Doesn't matter that it's optional - it shouldn't exist. I vote with my wallet - they get NOTHING from it, unless it's extra content (DLC), and even then, I want value for money.
 
I have all 25 AE cars and I'm almost at IB and not had to use a single one, the prize cars are all there for each of the series so far, some are in the licenses, and some are in the missions, the only car I had to buy so far was the xsara rally car for 125k, Im at 300k right now and only really buy tires and very light mods on all of my cars. The pay out is right where it needs to be, I'd rather enjoy offline mode, fine tune my skills on the new physics engine, which by the way is amazing! Once I'm done with offline mode I'll have enough money to use the car I literarily the most online ( s2k 06) in various forms of modification.
 
Gotta realize micro-transactions have been popping up everywhere. It's a fairly new trend to the game industry, but no company/game is immune.

This isn't just a PD thing, nor is it the first occurrence of such a thing. Don't think about it, it's something you have to hunt for anyways. It doesn't break the game, and isn't necessary for anything. Completely optional.

Totally agree with this. Micro Transactions dosent matter, and you can do fine witouht.
 
Payouts for races are perfectly good in this game. Some of you don't think back further than GT5 online seasonal's do you?

You get slightly over 4,000 credits for each race in the Sunday cup! Compare that to what you got in previous games and you'll see. It took all five races in the Sunday cup in GT4 to get 3,000 credits!

I've looked at the odd amounts for these in game credits and read to description text. It says you can use them to buy cars and tracks. I think this is how we are going to end up paying for DLC, with in game credits.

Look at the prices. 500,000, 1,000,000, 2,500,000 and then 7,000,000, the latter costing £39.99! That is full game money. It wouldn't surprise me if the Senna add-on costs 7,000,000 in game credits.
 
Don't feed the scam. Don't do it. First it will be an option to get in-game money, then they will make it the only way to get money. Who knows what will happen next. Nothing is really stopping them from charging for the most stupid things. The only thing that stops them (for now) is that there are still people who oppose these marketing strategies.
Just stopping in here to point out that this is a slippery slope fallacy.

I find it a scam to buy credits, but some people find it to be a worthwhile purchase. It's all subjective.
 
Gotta realize micro-transactions have been popping up everywhere. It's a fairly new trend to the game industry, but no company/game is immune.

This isn't just a PD thing, nor is it the first occurrence of such a thing. Don't think about it, it's something you have to hunt for anyways. It doesn't break the game, and isn't necessary for anything. Completely optional.
Excuse my choice of words but that's a load of horse feces. There's absolutely no need for neither Sony nor PD to jump on the bandwagon of these not-so-micro-transactions in full retail price games. None at all. It's moneygrabbing at it's finest - or in corporate language; ''an alternative for the busy people''.

To me, it's absolutely not about getting the best cars as early in the game as possible, but rather about wanting a balanced in-game economy for once. The last game to ever achieve that was GT4, if I recall correctly. Money wasn't hard nor easy to come by, but there was still a sense of achievement and fun to be had.

I don't doubt for a second that PD couldn't have altered the payouts to a make the game more fun á la GT4, instead of making players rely on poor glitches to make a quick buck. It might not break the game, MTs might be optional or you may even like the economy as it is, but it doesn't make the game less of a chore. And that's were the problem lies, in my opinion. GT5 was a chore pre-Seasonal Events and so is GT6 - although PD knew very well that the career payouts didn't go over well with the crowd in GT5. As it stands now, there is a clear incentive for players to opt into these ''micro''-transactions.

Seasonal Events might come along and once again save the in-game economy and make buying credits less apparent, but that's really not what it's primary function should be - but to add further longetivity to the game.
 
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I think the payouts are fine.

Some of the cars I've won so far have been worth a lot of credits. I have no reason to purchase creds with real money.
 
Personally I will not buy credits. I'm a gamer that's looking for an experience and challenge. There will be a lot of people that do buy them and that's perfectly fine with me and I think there is room for all types of players. The world of gaming is changing for the good and the bad but my attitude towards how I play has not changed.

Our job as gamers is to play. Game developers job is to make money anyway they can. Over the past number of years I have included game developers in my portfolio, my favourite is ATVI. I never miss out on Call of Duty game so why not invest.
 
Seems to me that peoples tolerance for actually playing games has dropped through the floor in recent times. Why is it always bout "Grinding" and not just "Playing the Game". What's with peoples feeling of 'entitlement' for all of a sudden?

Personally, I won't be buying credits.. but that's bugger all to do with the evil of micro transactions, and more to do with the fact I'll be playing this game for at least two years... I'm pretty sure in that time, I will have been able to buy all the cars I want. I've been playing GT for 15 years, spending another couple of days playing it to buy a fancy car won't kill me, will it? Micro-transactions are entirely optional.

GT6 isn't perfect, it's far from it, and I can't get my head around some of the decisions PD made, but the issue with the games economy isn't that big for me... but I do agree that the structure of the game needs working on in order to make it feel like less of a chore.

As I've stated before, I'd happily drop 3 figure sums for Gran Turismo, but for that I expect a lot of extra content. It remains to be seen what Kaz meant by a lot more DLC, but if there is a lot more, and it's free, I don't mind PD using this (MT's) as an alternate revenue stream.

Anyhow, just my 2 cents, like I say, there are many things that need fixing in what we already spent our money on, PD need to fix those before coming up with ways of charging us extra!
 
Hey guys (sorry I haven't read the entire thread) we need to realize where this is going. It may not be as bad right now, but if we show PD that we are willing to accept this, then the next game will be even more based on microtransactions. And then it will only get worse.

WE NEED TO SHOW THEM WE DO NOT ACCEPT THIS - OR ELSE IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE
 
It's more fun to earn in-game money than lose real life money, so I'll never buy credits. It's already bad enough with developers selling on-disc DLC.
 
It certainly does seem that way at the moment, that they're trying to get us to buy in game credits. But I am actually quite happy with the low pay outs, at least for now, as it makes the initial struggle in the game to buy cars & parts that more satisfying. :) Remember, they could always change the amount we win from different types of racing in the future via an update. Time will tell if we'll eventually get Seasonals like in GT5 where you'd be able to get 1 million credits for doing 1 lap on the ring, I hope so otherwise those who want to collect all the cars will be in for some serious never ending grindage! :ouch:
 
I too bought the anniversary edition with 1 million credits, so I was at least able to buy my favorite cars like the VW Kombi and Beetle and modify them. Now it's back to griding, but to me that's part of the fun and the fact that it's quite hard to accumulate credits from races makes the game much more realistic and last longer.
 
I pledge to legitimately use in game currency only to complete the career mode. But I refuse to play for hours just to save up for one hyper expensive car. That's where game data editing will come in handy.
 
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