You need a car and you haven't money??? GT5 will give you a present for your birthday

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Is there a trick here? My son., who has a legit PSN account, but is under 18, did NOT get a car for his birthday yesterday. He was so sad... Thoughts? The account has his correct and real birthday in the system...

PittCaleb
 
PittCaleb
Is there a trick here? My son., who has a legit PSN account, but is under 18, did NOT get a car for his birthday yesterday. He was so sad... Thoughts? The account has his correct and real birthday in the system...

PittCaleb
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If online access is restricted then he can't get the free car I believe.
 
Thanks Blitz - he's restricted from chat, so that prohibits him from all on-line. Bummer. Anyway to get the gift after-the-fact??? Guess I should un-restrict my other boys account then, ah? At least the week of his birthday (Jan)...

PittCaleb
 
PittCaleb
Thanks Blitz - he's restricted from chat, so that prohibits him from all on-line. Bummer. Anyway to get the gift after-the-fact??? Guess I should un-restrict my other boys account then, ah? At least the week of his birthday (Jan)...

PittCaleb
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No, you have to wait till next year. You can un-restrict the account for just one day or even once when the game is turned on so that he can receive the car and then you can re-restrict his account.
 
I told my older boy about the scam for free cars using sub accounts, and told him we would NOT be doing this. I suppose I could create a new bogus account for the December guy for his car with the same birth year, then go back to normalcy. he did "earn" it yesterday, they just didn't give it to him.

The question remains, should I un-restrict my wife's account ;-) Wonder why they couldn't enable on-line for sub-accounts with chat disabled and just turn off the audio chat portion and blank out the left chat window. Even in GT, people are so crude for absolutely no reason, I've had to quit games my boys were watching because of the language during free time prior to a race.

PittCaleb
 
PittCaleb
Is there a trick here? My son., who has a legit PSN account, but is under 18, did NOT get a car for his birthday yesterday. He was so sad... Thoughts? The account has his correct and real birthday in the system...

PittCaleb
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That's too much! In such horrific circumstances we have no other choice than to start a class action suit against PD and Sony. Let's rip Sony off for all the despair and disappointment they brought to our lives with GT5 and especially so known 'bday exploit'!
After all, the customer is always right! :ouch:
 
What about gifting just the ticket? Has that been limited to one ticket a day too? Anyone tried yet?
 
watsinaname
What about gifting just the ticket? Has that been limited to one ticket a day too? Anyone tried yet?
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I believe so. I tried to gift myself 5 tickets last night and only one came through. I even tried gifting a car after the fact and nothing came through. What I have not tried is creating multiple fake accounts on the same birthday to see if it's limited to just one account to another.
 
I noticed that even if i wasnt getting the birthday gift tickets, I gifted my fake account my F40 (to get the paint item) and then back to my main account and that worked.
 
well I don't think it has anything to do with it being a birthday item or not, I went into my fake account this morning (hadn't gifted anything yet today) and just bought a car (new save file) and gifted it to my main account, nothing showed up (this is after not receiving about 10 cars and parts last night). I am wondering if they can somehow track gifting between accounts and have their server automatically stop it? I really think its just a PD server issue at this point, I think we will know more tonight and this weekend...
 
uberchapaev
Birthday gifts are bound to your time zone which is set on ps3. You can use it to get back to your birthday if its not too late. :sly:
I could be wrong about gifts sending though, it was just an idea.

I think developers are bit angry now. Because the game took so much time to develop and it turned out it has such major flaw which spoils the game. These fancy cars are supposed to be a mark of big accomplishment but instead anyone could get them for nothing and in enormous quantities.
Some said that it wasn't cheating or they don't have time to get something. Obviously the game design wasn't meant for b-day gift abuse.
I used this flaw myself, however I think if you have to cheat in game than probably that game is just not for you. ;)
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I don't really consider getting cars cheating. Having a car does not = automatic game progression. Now, if it was gifting XP than that would be a different matter.
 
PittCaleb
Is there a trick here? My son., who has a legit PSN account, but is under 18, did NOT get a car for his birthday yesterday. He was so sad... Thoughts? The account has his correct and real birthday in the system...

PittCaleb
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I will give him a car (within reason since I don't have too much money).

What car does your son want?
 
Arklight
I don't really consider getting cars cheating. Having a car does not = automatic game progression. Now, if it was gifting XP than that would be a different matter.
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What about 'infinite money'? Would it be a cheat?
Money in GT5 is mainly for cars and parts.
So you are getting cars for free and most of them could be sold and many of them have quite high sell value to provide you with parts and upgrades and you still don't think its a cheating?
Think it over. ;)
 
uberchapaev
What about 'infinite money'? Would it be a cheat?
Money in GT5 is mainly for cars and parts.
So you are getting cars for free and most of them could be sold and many of them have quite high sell value to provide you with parts and upgrades and you still don't think its a cheating?
Think it over. ;)
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That's not entirely accurate. Most of the cars you can sell do not have a high sell value. I think I was averaging about $15,000 credits at most from gift car sales. The race cars you are gifted you're not allowed to sell which is why so many people have multiple quantities for trade. And even infinite money does not = wins or XP only playing the game does so... ::shrugs::
 
uberchapaev
What about 'infinite money'? Would it be a cheat?
Money in GT5 is mainly for cars and parts.
So you are getting cars for free and most of them could be sold and many of them have quite high sell value to provide you with parts and upgrades and you still don't think its a cheating?
Think it over. ;)
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I take it you don't have much experience with GT5. lol

First off, many of the real expensive race cars in the game cannot be sold. I, personally, only collect race cars and none of them can be sold that I currently own.

Secondly, the resale of MOST cars is pretty horrible. It would be faster to race for money than birthday glitch for it (outside of the '44 wagon).

So, most of what you are saying really doesn't apply. ;)
 
my birthday is in 2 months, 1984. Wonder what I'll get...
 
Read something about the birthday gift.
If you change your birtday often you get more cars, doesanyone know something about this?????
 
Arklight
First off, many of the real expensive race cars in the game cannot be sold. I, personally, only collect race cars and none of them can be sold that I currently own.

Secondly, the resale of MOST cars is pretty horrible. It would be faster to race for money than birthday glitch for it (outside of the '44 wagon).
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Actually I don't think Race cars have anything to do with the fact that you can't sell them, seems like the game capped what cars can be sold, anything worth $500K or more (Nascars for instance) can't be sold, but you can sell a $400K Lambo... And to support this, just look at cheaper "race cars" there are some in the game you can sell because they are only worth 50K credits.

Based on this my guess is they KNEW there would be birthday gift glitch abuse and this was their small attempt to tame it, so you couldn't sell the 50 nascars you got for free or the $$$ race cars, otherwise why would they not let you sell a car you bought at a dealership, seems sort of stupid.

and you are correct, unless you are just doing tons of '44 glitches, its better to race for credits and at some point I think its even faster to race (and more fun) than use the '44 glitch, I read something about a 3-4 minute race that gets you 100K credits!
 
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Arklight
It isn't really cheating since it actually has no effect on anything.

I can either birthday gift myself an R92 and use it in X-Race, OR, I can grind a different race and buy an R92 and use it in X-Race.

Same outcome.
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WOW, this is probably the shortest and best comeback to anyone saying the glitch is cheating, seriously, how do you argue with that? How is racing the same simple race over and over again with your overpowered car (which is what grinders do) different than using the birthday glitch? just because the glitch is faster its cheating? No, I would say, racing a race over and over again is also cheating!

For those who say they want it to be realistic, well in "real life" would you be able to do the same race over and over with your overpowered car and just clean up on winnings day after day, NO! CHEATERS, hahaha

now if someone says they are going to beat the game and only repeat races to medal up but never after getting a gold, then that is different, or ones who say they will only race till they get any medal and move on...
 
Aumakua
WOW, this is probably the shortest and best comeback to anyone saying the glitch is cheating, seriously, how do you argue with that? How is racing the same simple race over and over again with your overpowered car (which is what grinders do) different than using the birthday glitch? just because the glitch is faster its cheating? No, I would say, racing a race over and over again is also cheating!

For those who say they want it to be realistic, well in "real life" would you be able to do the same race over and over with your overpowered car and just clean up on winnings day after day, NO! CHEATERS, hahaha

now if someone says they are going to beat the game and only repeat races to medal up but never after getting a gold, then that is different, or ones who say they will only race till they get any medal and move on...
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Jeez... Should I describe how you could get nearly any car in the game in steps? I'm too lazy to do it, I already said how to backup gt5 progress. One only had to farm 8 tickets for example then backup and send all tickets to different account then restore backup and send again and so on and so forth. It led to 50 tickets per 5 minutes. It was real, I did it myself.
You go against designed game flow with such tricks. The game designed this way so you have to 'grind'. You may dislike it but don't say that what you do is not cheating because it is. This game developed buy japanese and many if not all of their games have such thing as collecting something and it may take a year or 10 years to complete and they (japanese) do like it.
 
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ZeeOhSix
_stiggums - You cant bypass it.

Watevaman - Yeah going to try 2009 and then 2008. Wish it didnt take so long to create minor accounts.

Edit - I think I might try 2010 about 10 more times. I really want an F1 car, or even better, the X1.
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Cant get the F1 or X1 its impossible my friend tried for 6 hours,
 
Anybody saw the brand new $2 million Veyron that Beyonce got Jay-Z for his BD?

Now that's what you call a true BD glitch right there! ;)
 
So any news on the glitch? I tried it yesterday and I was only able to send 2 cars. I even waited until today to send an F40 I got yesterday and I didn't receive it on my account. So I'm guessing it can't be a a limit of cars per day, otherwise I should have been able to receive the car today.
 
birthday gifting has ended as we know it, well sort of. I did some extensive testing tonight and found a few interesting things:

1) if you create a new account you can use the glitch, but only once
2) I had the great idea of using your other old sub accounts to gift more cars to, thinking then you could use those to forward the gift to your main account, make sense? DIDN'T WORK, in fact the birthday car didn't even show up in that other sub account! it was a free car and took me 5 minutes, BUT in this case the test car was the Bugatti which I had tried for hours to get last week and never could, so I was a little pissed, oh well

so is it worth it anymore? depends, if you are in a brand new account then yes, after you pass X level, probably not. you will spend as much time grinding now as you probably would to get the B day car you want.

what impressed me with PD and this fix is their ability to not allow you to gift more than 1 car from any one sub account to more than one other account of yours, obviously they had some people who think the way I do, hahaha.

One question still remaining is the 1 trade per day and how that works with sub accounts, because I have an account that I last traded with last night, and it won't let me send a new car today! so maybe it is 24 hours or something and not actually once per day

also how does this effect real trading? can you only trade with each person once a day, can you only send one car per day, period?


Hope this saves people time, now you know the rules. I actually applaud PD on this one, they didn't have to get rid of the nice prize and will still let you cheat, but its almost not worth it now which is probably what they wanted to happen...
 
This is what happens when you have too many birthdays.. You will grow old and your son will have to carry you everywhere! lol

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