Grand Touring 7, One of the upcoming PlayStation games of the year, found itself in extreme fire following the game’s release. The latest game updates have broken the game experience for some users to the point where most of them have bombarded the game with terrible reviews on the site Metacritic And made it one of Sony’s worst rated user games ever released. Well what caused all this rage?
It all started this week, the game’s development studio, Polyphony Digital, Released an update called 1.07 with a number of fixes after launch. But the fix had an error that forced the developer to shut down the game servers for about 30 hours before the GT7 was completely accessible again. As you can already guess, the players were not happy.
The problem with this is that the single-player career mode of the GT7 requires a regular online connection. Therefore, if a user’s Internet is turned off, or in this case, the GT7 servers are disabled, players can only access a limited selection of the new game features, many of which have paid for at least $ 60. Obviously people were angry.
It is true that one can look at the problem as something relatively negligible and the players just like to yell at every little feature they do not like in their games, which is pretty much what happens today at every game launch. But the requirement for a permanent network connection for a career situation has always been a problematic issue that gaming companies have not always understood the problem with. It is true that almost everyone in Israel today also has a home Internet, but the problem here is with the game servers and not necessarily with the users.
But to make matters worse, update 1.07 has drastically reduced payments for certain events, making it difficult to accumulate credits (coins) in the game and thus encouraging players to spend real money on in-game coins. Another topic that is very sensitive for gamers around the world.
Players earn credits by participating in races. You can take advantage of the credit to buy other vehicles, cosmetics, or purchase parts to maximize the potential of the vehicle. In some cases, the winnings received were halved. Races like Fisherman’s Ranch have dropped from a payout of 65,000 credits to 30,000 credits, and a Suzuki Circuit has dropped from 75K to 50K, and there are more examples on other tracks.
As the criticism grew, Gran’s CEO Tourism Casemori Yamachi Wrote an apology post and explained why the servers had been disabled for so long, and what happened to the credit in-game wins. Yamucci explained that the reason for the server crash was caused due to a problem where the game did not load properly in some cases on Sony’s two consoles, the PS4 and the 5th.
Regarding the lower payments, Casonori stated that he wanted players “Will enjoy a lot of cars and races even without micro deals.” However, he also wanted to limit repetitive gameplay and emphasize the value of the GT7 virtual cars compared to their real-life counterparts.
“The pricing of cars is an important component that conveys their value and rarity, so I do think it’s important that it be related to prices in the real world,” Wrote Yamachi. “I want to make the GT7 a game where you can enjoy a variety of cars in a lot of different ways, and if possible, I want to try to avoid a situation where a player has to keep reproducing certain races over and over again.”
Well even if the point of Yamachi A bit understandable, it still does not pass quietly among fans of the series. Players have always been against micro-payments of all kinds in the past, and to some degree will always remain so. And gamers who want to get all the cars in the game, will have to “grind” races and game hours to get what they could in half the time just a few days ago.
In your opinion, another point that really annoys the users is that the micro-payment option was not available at all during the launch of the game and may have caused the scores the game received to be higher than it should have received. Over the past few years, titles that have come out with a problematic micro-payment system have also generally received the appropriate score for that game, meaning that these systems do indeed affect the overall score of the game.
So while gaming sites have garnered praise for the game from all directions, gamers have gone in a completely different direction, and so a game like Gran Turismo 7 gets an average score of 87 from 108 different news sites, while it gets a score of 2 from over 5,000 different MetaCritic users .
Meanwhile, the development teams at Polyphony Release version 1.08 which is supposed to solve most of the serious glitches in the game, even in addition also did not change anything in the game economy so that the rage of the fans will not go away any time soon, and we will follow the reaction of Sony and its home studio.
