If you face the wrong direction in a racing game, you may see the U-turn prompt on the screen. It seems that Sony is taking its own advice when launching Gran Turismo 7.
The company is responding to criticism of the price of the in-game cars – which the in-game credits make hard to get without spending real money – and is changing course to get back on track.
An upcoming update will give players one million free credits in the short term, while an upcoming update in April will increase rewards for some races. This makes it easier to earn credits to buy the cars by ripping it up on the track, not ripping the contents of their wallets.
Later, developer Polyphony Digital will also allow players to sell the cars they’ve bought for extra credits, something players have been asking for in recent weeks.
The company’s president, Kazunori Yamauchi, apologized to players for the recent patch, which had drawn a lot of criticism over the past few weeks.
In a post on PlayStation Blog, he wrote: “Thank you for your continued support and feedback on Gran Turismo 7, your voices have not gone unheard. I would like to apologize for the frustration and confusion caused by our patch updates last week, which not only resulted in a server outage, but also adjustments to the in-game economy that were made without a clear explanation for our community became.”
He explained that the initial change was designed to fix a bug that was causing World Circuit Events to pay out too many credits, but said that “it was necessary to restore the intended balance and provide more accurate rewards based on time spent and.” recalculate the reward system as a whole.”
The updates scheduled for April are as follows:
- Increase rewards by around 100% on average in events in the second half of the World Circuits.
- Added high rewards for completing Circuit experience in all Gold/All Bronze results.
- Increase in rewards in online races.
- Add a total of eight new hour-long endurance race events to the missions. These also have higher reward settings.
- Raised the cap on unpaid balances in player wallets from 20m Cr. up to 100 million cr.
- Increase the range of used and legendary cars at any time.
The rest is planned “in the short term”:
- Increase the payout value of limited-time rewards as we evolve as a live service.
- More World Circuit Event additions.
- Adding endurance races to missions, including 24 hour races.
- Adding online time trials and awarding rewards based on the player’s difference to the best time.
- Do it so cars can be sold.