Bravely Default as well should be mentioned.
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Gran Turismo 6 microtransaction pricing revealed - just £120 for a Jaguar XJ13
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Bravely Default as well should be mentioned.
You have no problem with a digital car priced that insanely high?
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
The pricing model is nonsense though. One car should not cost anywhere near that kind of money. Like a few bucks here and there for those willing to pay for their time is one thing but to have a car worth 100+ dollars is madness.
It's the same problem in Fifa Ultimate Team. If you want Ronaldo you need like 200 dollars worth of fifa coins and in that game grinding is essentially impossible.
It's the same problem in Fifa Ultimate Team. If you want Ronaldo you need like 200 dollars worth of fifa coins and in that game grinding is essentially impossible.
H3avyM3tal
Banned
From what I understand it's only possible through the store and not the ingame?
Still gonna wait to see what kind of bullshit is in driveclub, but yeah.
How long will it take to buy all those cars though. Let's keep the same "stringent" requirements as people had for Forza - buy every car and do nothing but starter races to earn money lol
I'm guessing Drive Club will be worse.
No, that's gone.
The grinding is still the same as it would be without micros. I'm totally okay with this. They didn't design the economy based around the micros.
Isn't it more like the difference between a plain, steamy pile of turd and a steamy pile of delicious chocolate pudding which - from certain angles - does kinda look like a turd. But that's dependent on how you look at it, because it still *tastes* like delicious chocolate pudding.
ACIV is a case where I was really pissed off when I looked at the "DLC", aka moneys, tons of moneys, on the Playstation Store, but when you actually play the game, nobody annoys you and you forget about it.
The Multiplayer is less subtle in that regard and I don't like it.
moltonasty
Member
Or you could, you know, just play games that don't have micro transactions? Or maybe even play this game, and not buy any of the micro transaction stuff? Crazy concept, I know.
huh?
phosphor112
Banned
Costs as much as a racing wheel.
No. Not at all. The very first race gives you 4k. People have early copies and high end races will give you 70k to 150k depending on what it is.
Just putting it into the game does affect the economy. There is now an alternative where you can spend money to save time. You can play FFVI without ever using Vanish+Doom but that broken mechanic is still there and it's always in the back of your mind as you're playing.
But I was mostly just laughing at the spin because it's so bad.
test_account
XP-39C²
I never really understood the big complaining about these things. I could see it if the game was designed in a different way to make these microtranscations a "must have", but this doesnt seem to be the case in GT6 (and maybe it wasnt in Forza 5 either?). Since GT6 is a sequel, its easy to compare this to previous games and see if there are done any changes in the game design regarding this. If there isnt, what exactly is the complain about?
No? I will never use real money to buy digital cars, not in GT and not in Forza.
Why would I have a problem with that?
Yep.
It's gross imho.
TangoAlphaLima
Member
Not defending the microtransactions in the slightest, but I do want to point out how Eurogamer's math is a little faulty.
See, I'm just not sure why you'd drop £119.95 for exactly 20 million credits, when you could buy 3 "packs" worth of 7 million credits for £119.97, giving you 21 million credits total. It seems like they used the £119.95 example for more dramatic effect, despite the fact that the message would have been equally received using a more expected £119.97 price.
See, I'm just not sure why you'd drop £119.95 for exactly 20 million credits, when you could buy 3 "packs" worth of 7 million credits for £119.97, giving you 21 million credits total. It seems like they used the £119.95 example for more dramatic effect, despite the fact that the message would have been equally received using a more expected £119.97 price.
Dreams-Visions
Member
I see. An important difference.
DrGonzo615
Banned
The title of this topic makes this seem more sinister than it actually is.
GT5 had uber expensive cars that you had to grind to reach as well....hell, I might be mistaken but I can remember grinding for expensive cars in EVERY GT game.
The only difference between this and what GT6 is doing is that GT6 gives you the option to pay your way to the uber expensive cars without the grinding.
Now if there were cars that were in the game but strictly behind a paywall, then it would be a much bigger issue.
GT5 had uber expensive cars that you had to grind to reach as well....hell, I might be mistaken but I can remember grinding for expensive cars in EVERY GT game.
The only difference between this and what GT6 is doing is that GT6 gives you the option to pay your way to the uber expensive cars without the grinding.
Now if there were cars that were in the game but strictly behind a paywall, then it would be a much bigger issue.
phosphor112
Banned
Yeah, it is kind of hard to see this from a lesser of two evils point of view. I don't care how much more content is there or if you can earn as usual or not. The fact of the matter is that it is there, it's disgusting and microtransactions have no place in a $60 game. Especially with this kind of pricing.
thewhitehawk
Member
I'm glad that they didn't alter the progression of the game immensely, but I still strongly feel that these types of transactions shouldn't be a part of a full-priced game. I shouldn't feel inconvenienced or have to go out of my way to acquire a virtual good in a game I already purchased.
Even if there may have been no harm in this version of GT, like there wasn't in the previous Forza, we've seen where this route leads game design. Eventually these microtransactions will affect the game's balance and developers will be motivated to decrease the credits that players can earn freely to motivate them to purchase extra credits.
Even if you don't support the microtransactions, and even if you don't purchase them, they will effectively affect your experience sooner or later. If you don't take my word for it, please take Jim Sterling's.
Even if there may have been no harm in this version of GT, like there wasn't in the previous Forza, we've seen where this route leads game design. Eventually these microtransactions will affect the game's balance and developers will be motivated to decrease the credits that players can earn freely to motivate them to purchase extra credits.
Even if you don't support the microtransactions, and even if you don't purchase them, they will effectively affect your experience sooner or later. If you don't take my word for it, please take Jim Sterling's.
That....yeah fine. Alright. Although I do think we are stretching my poor comparison a bit further than is healthy.
That's cool then, thanks.
Why the fuck does it matter? It seems the game isn't giving me any pop-ups or notifications about buying credits so I'm totally 100% fine with this.
QFT
Revolutionary
Member
Why is this part not bolded?
If it's the same shit as in previous GTs then it's probably fine. Unless you had a problem with it previously, of course.
R_thanatos
Member
At least they havent made the economy worse to force plauers to pay
purnoman3000
Member
Allow me to continue to disgust you even though I have no interest in GT as a franchise. If you read the posts in this thread, you will see people have stated that you still unlock cars by completing races and that you can accrue millions of credits in 15 minutes.
Feel free to be disgusted by me.
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I remember when you could unlock cheat codes by beating the game or doing something else. Or checking out the cheat code section in a magazine and trying them out in-game.
Now what used to be earned in-game is now paid DLC.
Before we'd earn the ability to cheat. Now we pay to do the same.
And people say this industry isn't sick and exploitative.
well thats good...at least i can grind some money...and frankly grinding never bothers me in GT games...it makes me all PS1 nostalgic and shit for some reason lol
im NOT totally ok with this, but its the lesser of two evils when compared to how Turn 10 did things...its a real f'ing shame either way and i dont like it one bit...
Red Blaster
Member
impressions at gtplanet have mentioned that it is in fact easier to get credits in gt6's career mode than in gt5's career mode
Forza had day 1 paid DLC didn't it?
What did they change to make it harder?
That's no excuse for including microtransactions.
It is skeezy.
