Gran Turismo 7 devs quickly backtrack on Credits controversy Polyphony DigitalA recent Gran Turismo 7 update made some crucial changes to the game\u2019s rewards system that went down like a lead balloon. In the wake of the criticism, Polyphony Digital have acted quickly and released a statement confirming that the changes will be undone. Games that contain microtransactions always run the risk of crossing a line. Gran Turismo 7\u2019s were actually not known about until the game\u2019s official launch, and their later addition drew the ire of many people. But the game\u2019s in-game reward system was healthy enough that avid car collector\u2019s had more than enough ways to earn Credits \u2013 the game\u2019s official currency. It was made less effective though thanks to a recent update that reduced the number of Credits that could be earned for many of its races. The notion was that doing this was a way to decrease overall earnings and increase the desire to buy microtransactions. It seems like the GT7 team have listened to the feedback and are going to undo this unpopular change. The Credits controversy was so big that players all around the world were taking to Metacritic to user bomb the game\u2019s score. It is now officially the lowest-rated, user-reviewed PlayStation title of all time, that\u2019s how devastating the whole thing has been. On March 25, 2022, the official PlayStation blog shared a statement from the President of Polyphony Digital \u2013 Kazunori Yamauchi \u2013 explaining how the company intends to make things right. \u201cI would like to apologize for the frustration and confusion caused last week with our patch updates which resulted in, not only a server outage but also adjustments to the in-game economy which were made without a clear explanation to our community.\u201d He goes on to say that players will receive a \u201cnon-paid credit pack of 1 million Cr\u201d to make up for the events and also that rewards will be increased going forward. \u201cWe will reestablish the reward system with greater balance throughout the game to benefit all players,\u201d and this includes doubling rewards in a lot of cases too. Polyphony Digital have acknowledged that the change to the game\u2019s economy was an oversight and something regrettable, so it\u2019s nice to see that they\u2019ve acted so quickly and positively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gran Turismo 7 devs quickly backtrack on Credits controversy Polyphony DigitalA recent Gran Turismo 7 update made some crucial changes to the game\u2019s rewards system that went down like a lead balloon. In the wake of the criticism, Polyphony Digital have acted quickly and released a statement confirming that the changes will be undone. Games […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}