Recently, due to the long game maintenance time and micro-transactions of "GT7", as of press time, the player rating on the M station has dropped to 2.4 points, becoming the lowest rating game for players in Sony's first-party studio.
Most of the player reviews were released on or after March 17, pointing to much-maligned patches by developer Polyphony Digital that reduced access to the game and made it harder for players to drive new cars without microtransactions. At the same time, from the 17th to the 18th, the game had more than 24 hours of downtime and maintenance, which also made the producer of "GT7" Kazunori Yamauchi have to apologize to all players.
According to foreign media VGC, in "GT7", the price of the same car is 8 times that of "GTS". Meanwhile, a recent statistic from the fan site GTPlanet shows that GT7 takes much longer to earn points than previous games, and players need to spend nearly 20 hours brushing quests to earn enough money to buy one of the most expensive models in the game.
This slow way of getting games and expensive microtransactions became the main reasons for widespread criticism from the gaming community. At the beginning of the game's release, GT esports world champion Valerio Gallo even criticized the game's microtransactions in multiple tweets, calling the game a "real credit card simulator."
Many players complained: "I am a die-hard fan of GT, I have been playing since PS1's "GT1", and the physics engine and gorgeousness of the car in the game are not said." However, it all makes no sense because the game's career mode is very short, the most obvious way to get it is through microtransactions, while weakening the rewards of single-player matches to make it all worse, GT7 becomes a torture, it has never been so bad. ”
"I give it a 0 because it makes me miserable, the game is great, the controller controls are great, and the graphics don't have to be said. But microtransactions — buy a Ford GT for $38? ”
Yesterday producer Kazunori Yamauchi also came forward to apologize, saying: "I hope that users can enjoy cars and races even without microtransactions." At the same time, the pricing of a car is an important factor in conveying its value and rarity, so I think it's important to relate it to real-world prices. In response to the controversy over microtransactions and the 1.07 update to reduce the CR point reward for world track events, Yamauchi also responded, saying that this situation will eventually be resolved through more content, which will be released at an unspecified point in the future.