PD should sell classic tracks as DLC.

[Auron_1]

I'm surprised they haven't tried to pull this off. I mean, who wouldn't spend 20 bucks each on Midfield, Apricot, SS5, SS11, R246, Rome, Seattle or Apricot? I wonder if this could ever happen?

 

[Famine]

I wonder if this could ever happen?

PD has proven pretty resistant to fracturing the playerbase in this manner - even if we did get a pay-to-win Daily Race a few weeks back - and in any case the pace at which it creates tracks simply isn't fast enough to do this.

Also you can probably rule out five of those tracks as street circuits (by Yamauchi's own comments) take even longer and they're just not in the picture.

 

[effenberg]

No.

 

[Auron_1]

Still fun to think about. All in all, I’m shocked they were able to cram in as many tracks as they have. But weren’t some of them lifted from GT6? Or did they have to start over?

 

[Famine]

But weren’t some of them lifted from GT6? Or did they have to start over?

In terms of content, just about nothing survived from GT6. That was the literal messaging of GT Sport: "burn it to the ground".

I think that, of the very few tracks that were in both 6 and Sport, the only one obviously not a newer model is Circuit de la Sarthe (now the "24 Hours of Le Mans Racing Circuit" in 7).

 

[Auron_1]

Speaking of GT6, should I even bother when there’s so much of GT7 to play?

 

[notarjy]

Personally I wouldnt pay for fictional tracks. In general they dont do tracks as DLC because it would divide the online playerbase. It makes more sense to put out tracks for free so all players will be able to access them. Since it takes them so long to make tracks anyways I dont think having them as paid DLC would make them come any faster.

 

[wowbaggerBR]

the problem never is the way they deliver the assets to the community and your "solution" precisely creates a new problem that should not even exist in the first place.

 

[Nakano219]

Also you can probably rule out five of those tracks as street circuits (by Yamauchi's own comments) take even longer and they're just not in the picture.

I reckon they could get away with Route 5. Your Romes and Madrids aren't happening but I could see a world where SSR5 makes it.

The big thing stopping urban tracks is the architecture lining them often being a) intricately detailed and b) unique, so they take a ton of time to make each asset and you have to make all of them. SSR5 doesn't have those issues, it's more like Tokyo Expressway where they could make a bunch of fairly generic towers to line the course with, and most people probably wouldn't be too upset with a bit of copy & paste.

The question around SSR5 is more whether PD think Tokyo Expressway covers that niche, I think.

 

[05XR8]

I thought every time PD selling something extra, it is SONY making that call.

 

[Mafio]

Nah I like the way Sony/PD is handling GT’s DLC. They actually sold us “more game” to play, if you will, not just stuff in the game. Imo paid DLC for cars and tracks alone is the equivalent of skins and backgrounds for fighting games. If I’m going to pay for something I want it to add to the actual game itself not just adding stuff more ways and places to do the stuff I’ve already did.

 

[Auron_1]

I just wanna race on SS11 again

 

[Nebuc72]

Midfields the biggest crime for not making the jump to Sport, that thing got a (really good!) looking overhaul late into 6's life and then has been nowhere to be seen since. Realy weird use of resource to not bring it over, it wouldn't need much love to get it up to Sport standards, certainly better looking than Le Mans is in GT7.

 

[ScottPuss20]

No, PD should not sell their classic tracks.

 

[Auron_1]

No, PD should not sell their classic tracks.

Well even if it did happen, they wouldn’t do it for free. Thats all I’m saying. Unless you don’t like the classics tracks, which would work out well because you could just not buy them.

 

[RobertHammer]

I would like classic versions of the tracks but modern PD wont do paid tracks like before because if they did they would have done that with Spec 3

 

[ZEE]

To the OP I say:

But I wud love to see Midfield, Apricot Hill, Defo SEATTLE & AMALFI and the SS Routes make a return before we get GT8 please!!!

 

[Sir Crashalot]

When I saw the thread title I thought you're talking about old versions of real tracks, like classic Monza, Spa, Nordschleife& Südschleife and so on.