Stop trying.
The feature to not have rewind should be in GT5. If people won't buy a real driving simulator without rewind in it, then so be it. PD isn't a charity.
By having rewind not forced, the feature of not having it is already provided.
This isn't about charity. Rewind is a good thing for sims like Gran Turismo. Much more appropriate in a sim than say, Need for Speed, which would not likely have things like rewind which have such a focus on improving your [real life] skills.
I agree, but your main argument to include rewind everywhere is "I shouldn't force other people to play the way I want them to". But it's not me, it's PD. They include limitations in GT, not me. To talk about allowing rewind everywhere, is to talk about opening all the game's limitations. That would change the whole game, as allowing rewind everywhere would change the whole game.
GT is limited. It replicate real life races that are limited. I won't be surprised if they include races where you're forced to play with full damage on. I think they are right when they do that sort of thing. You may think otherwise, but I'm accepting the game for what it is, you're trying to change it.
Some clarification:
My reasons for wanting rewind in GT:
None, I'm neutral. It's not needed, but it can be a huge bonus.
My reasons for thinking rewind belongs in career mode in some form:
I assume people will want to practice in career mode.
My reasons for thinking rewind should be everywhere:
As you said, I don't think limits should be imposed on one's private affairs. But in this subject it's pretty minor. Rewind is their to make drivers better, not get them past the boring and tedious (IMO) career mode, that is just an extra benefit it could be used for. However, that role is better filled by complete separation of arcade/online (A/O) and career (C). A/O should have everything open from day one and let you reconstruct anything from career mode. It for people who like to drive in a sim, and don't the [honestly] game like progression of GT mode. Not many sims I've played (most being flight sims) have unlocks. They don't serve any purpose. Everything is open to you from the begiinning, and that the best way to do it (IMO).
So to condense all that, rewind as a quick career mode option is secondary. What it really important is getting it in the game as a training feature.
On PD vs the people I'm arguing with, that's been understood the whole time. But you'll notice that some people speak and say what they think should and should not be, it's their right. I'm replying and exercising my rights. I don't expect my post here to have any influsence of GT5 at all. If I wanted that, I'd contact the proper people.
I'm not trying to change anything. Unless maybe adding something new is changing. It can be. I feel rewind fits GT like a glove, and as a sim it does not need the very regular-game-like progression. If the FWD races were in GT without restrictions, I'm sure a fair amount of people including me would use FWD cars in that race, so I don't see what the problem is. The restrictions are unecessary. But more realisticly, since I do expect limitation in GT5, having arcade mode free and career mode limited is acceptible if career is very loosely simulating a career. I just don't like how career sufficates other portions of the game like it does in old GT's (ie, you need to go through career to be able to do everything in arcade, etc).
Gran Turismo is real driving simulator. Fact
All the more reason for rewind.
Exiting out of a race and re-entering =/= rewinding.
It kind of does. If youÂ’re saying restart has a leg up on realism, itÂ’s unlikely that next year the grid looks the same, and everyoneÂ’s cars are exactly the same. ItÂ’s sort of like youÂ’ve gone back in time. In any case, rewind in a sim does not simulate a race, it simulates a sim.
This explains a lot. It's all about what your audience is able to accept. It doesn't matter if restarting a race is unrealistic, crashing and not dieing is unrealistic, having your car magically fixed after a race is unrealistic. We all grew with that sort of thing and learned to accept them. They don't break the realism.
Rewind in the other hand is new, foreign. It creates a break from reality that the other unrealistic things don't. It's not one of the "Acceptable breaks from reality" as a poll already clearly may showed. This surely supports the "because it's unrealistic" claim. It may not look logical at first, but that's only because the logic behind it is more complex than it seems.
That's most likely the reason why PD won't include rewind, regardless of it's advantages.
This has been said by me and a few others a long time ago. Aside from linking it with PDÂ’s most likely action.
People aren't used to it, so they think it's different, even if it's not.
People won't learn from their mistakes if they can just rewind and thus avoid the punishment for their stupidity.