I am not going to participate in this "but I know better" internet olympics.
Seems like you're trying, though.
I simply stated the obvious, before you challenge me on this topic do a little research maybe learn something new.
Well, take your own advise, I guess.
1 Everything requires licensing.
Simply put, no. The stuff PD creates by themselves doesn't. That encompasses the whole physics engine, lighting engine, the original GT tracks, menues, network code and the like. Basically, everything besides the real world cars and tracks. Which is a pretty darn lot of things.
2 Licence period expires.
They do. However, like many other basic contracts, they can be renewed fairly easily.
3 Every company does it differently.
The legal basics licensing is based upond don't change just because a different company tries to do it.
4 There were few articles going back to GT2 days where GT developers and KZ explained that it is not an easy task to reserve rights to use so many cars in the game.
Nobody says it's easy, it just doesn't take years to do it.
5 I work for marketing company so yes I know wtf I am talking about it.
You'd better make sure your employer doesn't read what you're writing here, then.
6. Why NFS does it faster? I dont know EA runs half the gaming industry I am sure they can make things go faster with more money.
Given that Sony is a bigger company than EA, given that GT5 had a bigger budget than, well, anything, I don't see your point.
7. Which other games had 400 cars? Forza and? and it was in development for 2 years add another 600 cars and thats 2-3 more years.
What? I'm just pointing out that other games do the same amount of cars/year without getting into a lot of trouble.
8. Many games donot use actualy brand cars they do mock brands or look alike.
Doesn't matter, given the topic at hand, right?
Let's try
logic shall we? If it takes four years to license all the cars, that would leave PD with 2 years at best to model them, right?
Now, Kaz states that it takes six man months to model a car. And a lot longer for the tracks, right? Does it seem likely that they spend so long before starting to model all that stuff?
Now, to prove your whole idea wrong:
If it takes four years to license the cars, how is it possible to have a 2010 car licensed? It should be completely impossible to have, say, a Tesla in the game.
There might be a company or two that drag out the negotiations, true. Ferrari and Lamborghini probably did. That doesn't mean that you can't work on the other 80% of the cars.
Well good on you if you have nothing else in life to focus on. Your point here is severely flawed, game design is like any other form of design, those who are truly great at it look at things on the deep philosophical level, how do you think games like GTA, etc. end up being so good?
A very basic design element is to match your product to the target audience.
You wouldn't start to write a huge essay on life and death only to publish it in the next issue of the weekly Mickey Mouse magazin.
If Kaz wants to dive into a deeply philosophical story, that's fine. If he feels like it, he should be making a game that does all of that.
However, Gran Turismo isn't the game to do it in.
