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After the update, reduced credit payments for many races in Gran Turismo 7Developer Polyphony Digital is apologizing to fans and increasing the reward.
In a post on Blog PlayStation, Polyphony Digital President and Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi apologized for last week’s downtime for the PlayStation exclusive racing title, as well as “adjustments to the economy” in-game, made without clear explanation to our community.” Yamauchi admits that “this is not the Gran Turismo experience you’d expect,” and as a gesture of goodwill towards fans, promises to give away a million dollar credit card to the owner of the replica. physical or digital of Gran Turismo 7 before March 25th.
Another update for Gran Turismo 7 will come in early April to boost credit payments. Specifically, players will see a 100% increase in credit payouts during the second half of World Circuit events, increased rewards for online races, and more. Polyphony Digital is also working on other changes to the game, including new World Circuit events, a new 24-hour Endurance Race, and the ability to sell cars.
Yamauchi had previously attempted to defend a sudden drop in credit payments, this was done to create some Gran Turismo 7cars are more expensive. In a post on the game’s website last week explaining in detail why it was down for a day, Yamauchi wrote “In GT7, I want users to enjoy multiple cars and races even without microtransactions. At the same time, the price of our vehicles is an important factor in conveying their value and rarity, so I think it is important that it is linked to the actual price. As it turns out, racing game players don’t want to pay exorbitant in-game prices for supercars, so Gran Turismo 7‘S 1.6 user points on Metacritic.
Those curious about these new updates can play Gran Turismo 7 on PS4 and PS5.
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