I'd prefer a game that doesn't need updates a year down the line to add in content that should have been there from the start, I expect that from every game developer and publisher, not just PD and Sony. I don't want to spend £45 on a game in November 2010 and still not be playing the finished article in October 2011, the GT5 is the only game I can remember where people are actually arguing the case to make this acceptable, if it was Forza on the Xbox (of which I own neither by the way) the same apologists would be laughing their arses off at the Forza fans.
Well, you have no experience with Forza so you don't know how broken the first three games were. Or how adamantly they were defended, even here.

Just go to the Forza section and bring up a list of flaws of the previous games, and see how warm a welcome you get.
You complainers need to drop the whole "this game should have been finished at launch" yadda yadda blah blah, as if you can complain the past into being changed. I think it's high time you guys realize there are NO time machines - at least that anyone knows of, and so the past is fixed, unchanging, and out of reach from even the most epic complaining. We GOT what we GOT. If you are still complaining about that after nearly a YEAR, I have to say being your neighbor can't be too pleasant a prospect.
No one is saying that this is fine and can be the norm in gaming from now on. Quit acting like anyone is saying this. Quit acting like anyone was asking for GT5 in its current form with all the unexpected strangeness.
Assuming some of you were here since the launch of GT4, try to REMEMBER over the past couple of years the ever growing outcry from the fans
demanding for Polyphony to release GT5 in whatever the heck form it was in so we could play it! Most of us didn't want to wait till 2012 to play it. I sure the heck didn't.
I was nervous about GT PSP being worked on in the very midst of GT5's development, afraid that the team might get sidetracked in ways that would hurt the game. I was nervous about 3D being forced on the game as standard for all versions, not as an option which could be installed. I don't have any idea if these are big reasons why GT5 is as odd as it is or not, but I have to think that if the team had four years of straight, uninterrupted and unmeddled time to work on GT5, it would be a better game.
You bring up damage. But you completely ignore how many of the fans complained about it, to the point that nearly a year's worth of work on it was scrapped, and we have what we have now.
People forget that the region suffered an incredible disaster that clobbered their country, made electricity rationed for weeks if not months, and this caused Kazunori to move the entire freaking studio hundreds of miles to the south! You guys don't know how lucky you are that we got anything of a Spec II this year.
Complaining is one thing, but arguing without understanding and immaturity are another. For example...
you people gotta learn to respect other peoples point of view, just cuz you dont agree doesnt mean its wrong
I can honestly say I dont think anybody thought it was gonna be GT6, what a stupid comment.
Need I say more?
Is it too much to ask people to act halfway decent and intelligent? I think many here would grant that I have half a brain.

And I've been known to throw water balloons on more than a few occasions, but I try and have a sense of humor too. And perspective.
People ask why Polyphony or SONY don't have a presence here. Well, look at some of the thoughtless poo that gets flung around this place.
One more thing. There IS a disappointment thread. If you insist on being disappointed, why are you in this one?