The "Daily Login Bonus" and what to do about it. (Poll included)

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Do you like the "Daily Login Bonus" system?

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tnfedexman
This daily task has reached a breaking point for me. I am just sick and tired of keeping it maxed out all week long for one time seasonal's and the odd special event. Like many of you I keep multiple accounts up in anticipation of those promised "community features" that I hope will include trading, my favorite feature of GT5.

If ever there was a use for micro-transactions, this is it. I would gladly pay for permanent 200%. At the very least, once you've kept it maxed out for a set period of time it should become permanent.

I know of no other game series in the PS library that requires this daily ritual.
 
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It basically makes use of the Time Zone changes that you can do with the PS3.

If I find the thread for it, I'll link it, but it involves moving the PS3 clock forward or back using the Time Zones til just before midnight, entering the game letting the clock go past midnight, accept the login bonus, then go back another hour and repeat until you have the full 5 stages.

Here's my post about it because I couldn't find anything earlier:

iainoflo85
1. Enter the game normally, receive the 110% bonus.
2. Save the game by changing into a different car and letting the game save automatically after.
3. Open the XMB, go to Time and Date Settings under Settings far left before Users, this will need the game to quit.
4. Go to Time Zone. Change this so that wherever you are your PS3 clock will show just before midnight.
5. Enter the game, wait until past midnight, accept the next bonus, repeat steps 2-5 again until you're at 200%.

Some time zones are in half hours and quarter hours, so that will speed things up even more.
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do you really need so much money? I log in once or twice a week and still have more than enough cash in the bank. 38 million is more than I can spend. Golding a seasonal gets enough cash, even on lowest log in, to buy you nearly any car in the game. For all else a few races in the Red Bull challenge should more than suffice to make up the difference. I remember how everyone was whining in the first few weeks about the low credit output, but now everyone should be swimming in cash.
 
Third Reign
do you really need so much money? I log in once or twice a week and still have more than enough cash in the bank. 38 million is more than I can spend. Golding a seasonal gets enough cash, even on lowest log in, to buy you nearly any car in the game. For all else a few races in the Red Bull challenge should more than suffice to make up the difference. I remember how everyone was whining in the first few weeks about the low credit output, but now everyone should be swimming in cash.
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I agree that there is a lot more credits available these days to GT6 players. However, If like me, you spend a lot of time tuning and entering into online competitions, the credits you earn quickly evaporate. I like the idea of permanent 200% bonus after a certain amount of time and it wouldn't effect PD as we don't pay to play the game as we go, we've already paid the price to buy it. I aren't swimming in cash because I've spent all my credits I've earnt on tuning cars which I publish to aid other users. I definitely want to see 200% bonus stick around so I can continue to do this without grinding boring races for hours.
 
GT5 Level 41
If ever there was a use for micro-transactions, this is it. I would gladly pay for permanent 200%.
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Shhhhhhhhh don't say stuff like that.. this is why we have so many microtransaction-fueled games now. They create a game with a built in annoyance (such as an incredibly slow way to make money, a bar that only allows you to do so many actions each day) and then they let you pay to get rid of these annoyances.

It is the worst thing to ever happen to my hobby of gaming & if GT goes down this road I'm def not gonna follow. It's still relatively easy to make money in the game although you can tell they've cut down big time on the amount of money the seasonals give out. It seems PD might be headed down this path of ratcheting back your ability to advance and then 'kindly' giving you the option of paying real money to move forward quicker. :yuck: Sorry I just hate this stuff..
 
nick77
It felt better when you got something else as well in GT5; they could give racing gear in GT6
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They give you paints, not racing gear. Since the paints in GT6 are premanent, they most likely removed it. ;)
 
Im lucky enough to have 4 roommates that like to play gt6 too. Since they all use my PS3 and account, everyday at least 1 person logs on to play. 200% bonus ever since the 5th day its been available.
ha but we kinda need it cuz none of us are any good. :p:p:p
 
I'd just like an option to turn it off, so it doesn't display & annoy me everytime I log on.
 
I don't have a problem with the daily login bonus - due to lack of time I often just login to get the bonus and don't actually play.
 
mcfizzle
Guess what? It's not required at all. You and your game save will survive if your DLB goes down to 110%. Happens to me all the time and my game still functions properly.:)
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Your right. "Requires" was the wrong word. You are not required to keep your bonus up to 200%. The world won't end, yada yada yada. It's just annoying, especially if your just a touch OCD about theses things and you want to max out your earnings. Credits are tight and tuning is expensive. I haven't put nitro on one car yet.
 
IMO this wouldn't be a problem if there weren't 10-20 million dollar cars -- and so many of them too. If the most expensive car was like 5-6m it would be all right and personally I'd stop logging in every day just for the sake of keeping the bonus at 200%. I do it now because there's still some expensive cars I want, although I recently got the only one I really wanted (250 GTO), so I don't know if I'll even bother with the others that I already own in GT5 anyway.
 
I agree with the expensive car comment. 1 or 2 million or even 5 isn't so bad, but it takes a while to get enough credits saved for a 20 million car and then you're back to square one after purchase. I guess the question is, are the 20 mil cars actually worth it - and why don't they just lower the prices by 50%.
 
iainoflo85
It basically makes use of the Time Zone changes that you can do with the PS3.

If I find the thread for it, I'll link it, but it involves moving the PS3 clock forward or back using the Time Zones til just before midnight, entering the game letting the clock go past midnight, accept the login bonus, then go back another hour and repeat until you have the full 5 stages.

Here's my post about it because I couldn't find anything earlier:
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good to know for people (like me) missing a day once in a while, thanks!

ETA: might be this or that (3rd post)
 
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It'll be fine once they release B Spec and we can earn easy money.
The problem with GT5 seasonals was that they paid so much and were available immediately. A brand new user could by a Honda Civic, do a seasonal event a few times and then had millions of credits. The game lost the whole 'working your way up' component.
Once B Spec is released we can use that to earn money for expensive cars and tuning, whilst being free to do the races we want rather than the races that pay the most.
 
To further address the GT6 seasonal problem, I find sometimes the payoff amount doesn't cover the original cost of the car. For example, the most recent ASPEC Expert race paid $260K with full bonus, but I paid $1M for the Enzo to run it. I will skip seasonals that require a specific car if the payout is less than the car cost to run it.

I have two accounts, one where I have all the cars due to some nefarious actions on my part, and one where I am doing the "look ma, no wallet" approach. The later is much more fun imo so credits really do matter.
 
Sustainability threatening companies to power down their devices.
Gaming practices that are encouraging people to power up their devices which can otherwise be avoided?
How many consoles are being powered up or left running just to collect this login bonus?
I can't see Sony, PD or any other game developer continuing down this path if that is the net effect. At least for now in todays enviroment.

My position, I had to vote no, I'm no grand practicing enviro myself, but I do feel a little self-centred if I'm powering on my console just for login bonuses.

Yes, I see you can 'manufacture' your login bonus, I'm thinking the majority would not even know of, know how or even be bothered to do this, correct?
 
Yes, I agree GTPorsche.
I also like FS7 idea about the more difficult the challenge you set yourself in general should pay out more.

edit: and there should be no such thing as a car you can't sell.
 
GT5 Level 41
I know of no other game series in the PS library that requires this daily ritual.
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DUST 514(PSN Exclusive) Has the exact same concept as PD, implementing a 'Consecutive Login Bonus' that will net you "Skill Points" torward your character. The maximun you can stack is 7 Days.
 
TonyLomas
It'll be fine once they release B Spec and we can earn easy money.
The problem with GT5 seasonals was that they paid so much and were available immediately. A brand new user could by a Honda Civic, do a seasonal event a few times and then had millions of credits. The game lost the whole 'working your way up' component.
Once B Spec is released we can use that to earn money for expensive cars and tuning, whilst being free to do the races we want rather than the races that pay the most.
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This is a point I support entirely. The sort of thing I would implement is a system by which game progress decides how much you can earn in a given period of time. Think of the Red Bull challenge - you can only play it once you've unlocked I-B events. If they were to increase bonuses for those who had actually bothered to progress, that would be somewhat preferable.

Frankly it works that way now, but to an extremely played down extent, in that I-A races earn more than National B races, but the difference is marginal compared to the prices of the cars featured in-game.

As for the question posed in the OP, with the current system, login bonus is good. The first month or so was quite the grind without it.
 
GT5 Level 41
To further address the GT6 seasonal problem, I find sometimes the payoff amount doesn't cover the original cost of the car. For example, the most recent ASPEC Expert race paid $260K with full bonus, but I paid $1M for the Enzo to run it. I will skip seasonals that require a specific car if the payout is less than the car cost to run it.

I have two accounts, one where I have all the cars due to some nefarious actions on my part, and one where I am doing the "look ma, no wallet" approach. The later is much more fun imo so credits really do matter.
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what about the Chapparal 2J, cost 4.5Mil, every one was using in the Redbull seasonal? helped me discover a car I probably wouldn't have bought -too ugly- yeah, but the payout wasn't even 1 million...

PDI should change TT's payouts, every time you beat your best lap, you get paid... incentive to play more (most of the time, if the gold was hard, I give up after getting it. If I beat it easy, I'll try again, probably like this for a lot of people).
 

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