Kazunori Yamauchi, president of Polyphony Digital and creator of Gran Turismo, has officially apologized to the Gran Turismo community for the “frustration and confusion” for Gran Turismo 7 since its launch. The server outage from the latest PS5 system update caused Gran Turismo 7 to be down as well due to its always-online functionality, and one of the patches for the game had lowered the credit payouts for numerous races. Yamauchi promises that through a Gran Turismo 7 update (well, many of them) that this will be fixed.
How do future Gran Turismo 7 updates promise to fix the game?
First, according to the official post on the PlayStation blog, Polyphony Digital will be giving everyone a non-paid pack of 1 million credits that players can claim before April 25. While this is the equivalent of about a $15 purchase in Gran Turismo 7’s microtransactions, that’s a drop in the bucket when attempting to purchase one of the game’s legendary cars at 12 million credits apiece.
Before solving the credit payouts, though, Yamauchi attempts to justify the reasoning behind the patch that cut them in the first place:
“The patch update previously deployed was intended to rectify an issue with inconsistent reward payouts within a part of the World Circuit Events. But, to re-establish the intended equilibrium and provide more accurate rewards based on time investment and completion, it was necessary to recalculate the rewards system as a whole.”
That said, a slew of updates throughout the coming months are planned to repair the situation. At the start of April, they will increase the rewards in online races and for the latter half of the World Circuits by about 100% on average. They will add eight new on-hour Endurance Race events will high rewards as well, and player wallets will be able to hold 100 million credits instead of 20 million before.
Beyond those updates in April, Polyphony Digital plans on giving players the ability to sell cars, finally. 24-hour endurance races and online time trials, along with more additions to the World Circuit, are in the pipeline.
At the time of this writing, the user score for Gran Turismo 7 on Metacritic stands at 1.6/10 and has continued to trend downward over the last week. Unfortunately, there does not seem to be plans to allow players to start up Gran Turismo 7 in offline mode.
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