Post by nightmare75 on Feb 25, 2011 1:54:33 GMT -5
[Other Changes]
- Cars worth over 1,000,000 Cr. (including gift car coupons) are now prohibited from being traded to prevent issues during the trading process. When lending and borrowing cars between friends, please use the car loan system.
- Cars worth over 1,000,000 Cr. (including gift car coupons) are now prohibited from being traded to prevent issues during the trading process. When lending and borrowing cars between friends, please use the car loan system.
And the various GT5 communities of the world descend into chaos.
I can't say that I find fault with this decision. However, duping and trading at least partially fixed what I consider to be a huge flaw in the game's design: that it takes forever to earn money and that certain cars are only available randomly from the UCD for huge sums of money.
I admit, I've recently created a second PSN that I have been using to dupe expensive cars back and forth, essentially getting cars for free. So far, I've done it twice, netting a free F2007 and a Chapparal 2D. Before I started duping, I wasn't buying anything expensive. I was hoarding cash, just in case something I *really* wanted popped up in the UCD. Getting cars for free solved the grinding problem, and while the randomly rotating UCD was still annoying, it wasn't a big deal because I could buy something without penalty, whenever it showed up. I can't do that anymore, I'm stuck waiting for that Chapparal 2J or that GT40 before I move on to buying other things. If a 2J popped up in the UCD and I didn't have the cash to buy it, I'd be pretty angry.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not all bent out of shape over the trading (essentially) being gone. I'm just disappointed that they're fixing a symptom, not the cause of the problem. I believe Gran Turismo 5 has the best library of cars of any racing game. Ever. But who cares? I'm probably never going to get to drive some of the most significant models with the way the current system works.
If a majority of cars were reliably available from a dealership, but we had the current money payout, I'd be fine. There would be a lot of grinding, but you wouldn't run the chance of missing the car you're going for. Your grinding would have motivation, so to speak.
Conversely, if the money payout was greater to the extent that grinding up to the money cap wasn't a huge deal, then I wouldn't mind the random UCD so much. Yeah, you're waiting for your car to come up, but at least you have the money to buy it. Right now, there's no compromise. Money is hard to come by and so are the expensive cars. If it was one or the other, it would be livable. As it is, it's a design flaw, plain and simple.
I feel like they're sticking it pretty hard to the people who were using the system legitimately. They didn't have to disable trading high value cars to put a damper on trading. I think there's a better fix: make is so that if you gift or receive a model of car, you can't receive that model from a gift for a month. That doesn't stop duping, but it slows it down, a lot. I think that would be an effective way to curtail the exploitation without boning legit traders.
In other news, Shift 2 actually looks really impressive. That's going to merit a serious look when it comes out. PD needs to pay serious attention to how they do cockpit view in Shift 2 because IMO Shift 2 is the first game to really get it right.