Why theres no Livery editor in GT5/PS3
Forza/Xbox has the exclusive rights to have Livery Editor?
It would mean taking notes from the other guys, and PD is too proud and arrogant to do that. In their view, they're the undisputed number one and everyone else is a pretender, and it's clearly ridiculous to even consider that anyone else might do something better before they do. If GT doesn't have it before the other guys, it must be bad. The other guys are lagging behind on adopting the really cool features like oil changes and car washes.
Nope, rights have nothing to do with it. I'm guessing the team just ran out of time...
No, that isn't it. They had too much already. A livery editor isn't something that requires fifty people a few years to work out. It's pretty basic relative to stuff like the physics and graphics engines, or modeling a real-world track location in great detail. PD takes way too long accomplishing way too little, so if we're going to keep falling back on "needed more time" then evidently the entire staff needs to be replaced from the incompetent head all the way down.
Yep, and I heard PD has a exclusive rights on Car Washes and B-Spec so no other game can feature them. Pretty fair if you ask me.
Don't forget oil changes, drive-two-inches-from-the-shadows animations, and 4.3 MPH samba bus cruises around a wasted Top Gear track. No game captures the thrill of coasting at half the speed of smell around TGTT better than GT5, or the sheer exhilaration of requesting an oil change every fifty miles to get your three horses back.
^ Indeed, I believe a lot of people would just give up on the series.
I honestly believe a lot of their fanbase is nearly there already. While the diehard fanboys have always defended the game and labeled anyone who didn't worship GT5 as a "troll", the fact is that there are increasingly better alternatives out there and I suspect a lot of fans are becoming increasingly aware of that fact. Not just better alternatives, but ones that come in a timely manner (every two years). If they have to wait much longer for GT6 and then it come out short of FM4 (let alone FM5 which may be here by the time GT6 arrives; not Horizon), that'll probably be the final straw for millions of fans.
I want to note that I'll still get GT6, even if it does fall short of Forza.
If GT6 gets a livery editor it will probably be half assed
It'll be unnecessarily tedious with players having to collect vinyl shapes and color swatches to use in the editor, sort of like how they managed to ruin something basic like painting your car by making you have to buy a car of the desired color and knock a paint chip from it to show the paint shop what royal blue looks like because evidently a paint shop doesn't know what colors are. The game will start you off with ten randomly-selected basic shapes and one random manufacturer logo, and then you must earn the rest by randomly winning them or trading for them.
Having a livery editor means there must also be a way to police it to prevent swastikas, nudity, "$ony $ucks a$$" type banners, and the like. That would require they pay someone to do the policing, which means there'd be one less person doing actual development work in PDs employ.
People like to make ridiculous excuses like this, even though it was never a problem with games from more competent developers. Forza never had a problem with this. I suppose maybe we're suggesting that the bulk of the GT community is more childish with a juvenile desire to plaster all their cars with wangs and boobies? I've spent literally hundreds of hours with FM3 and hundreds with FM4, much of that in Storefront, and never saw a whole lot of sexually-charged images, with the worst just being anime girls in bikinis or other skimpy outfits (not nudity).
Players could report what they find offensive, and if a few players report it then it automatically goes "under review" and is no longer viewable or downloadable from that player's Storefront, so the community is self-regulating. Lots of potentially-offensive content ends up under review, always by the community itself rather than by Turn 10 staff. The staff is only needed to determine whether or not to allow the reported content after it has automatically been removed.
