Gran Turismo 7's Microtransactions Can Cost Up to $40 for a Single Car - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 April 2022 / 3,651 Views
Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Polyphony Digital have released Gran Turismo 7 worldwide today for the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. The microtransactions have now gone live and it shows a big increase in price over Gran Turismo Sport.
100,000 credits can be purchased for $2.49 / £1.99, 250,000 credits for $4.99 / £3.99, 750,000 credits for $9.99 / £7.99, and 2,000,000 credits for $19.99 / £15.99.
The price of vehicles range from tens of thousands for the lowest-spec vehicles, all the way many multiple millions for the high-end cars, according to VideoGamesChronicle. In Gran Turismo Sport the majority of cars were priced at $0.99 to $4.99 each.
The McLaren P1 GTR ’16, which was $4.99 in Gran Turismo Sport, will set you back 3,600,000 credits in Gran Turismo Sport. In order to acquire it you will need to purchase 2,000,000 credits twice for a total of $40. There are other vehicles that will require you to spend $40.
The Porsche 919 Hybrid 16 is available for 3,000,000 credits, Aston Martin Vulcan ’16 for 3,300,000 credits, and the Audi R18 TDI ’11 for 3,000,000 credits. There are also multiple vehicles available for 1,000,000 credits, however, there is no option to purchase that many credits at once.
This does mean any car that is priced above 750,000 credits will require to purchase the 250,000 or 750,000 credits multiple times or to buy 2,000,000 credits for $20.
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Not really micro anymore now is it
But you can you earn credits in the game though right? Wonder how difficult it is to earn that much. Still ridiculously expensive for just a single car and seems like a really bad idea.
3M credits car isn't a new thing in GT, If I'm not wrong on GT5 without MTX there were cars for 10 and 20M credits. We need to play the career and finish the regular game to see how much prized cars and money you get and how reasonable it is to end the game without grinding for money before complaining on the price of cars, but yes the real money for credits conversion is obnoxious.
Good to know! I hope there'll be a follow-up article after the game has been plan well enough to find out if MTX is actually needed or just for those that are silly enough to buy the car without putting in any game time.
Yep. Let's pray it is just like previous GT games where it was totally avoidable. And if they impacted the game to make MTX "needed" they sure deserve criticism for it.
Yep. Let's pray it is just like previous GT games where it was totally avoidable. And if they impacted the game to make MTX "needed" they sure deserve criticism for it.
Just started and already got 150K credits. There are some small races that have almost 70K payouts when you win. If you race clean you get 50% extra. So you can get credits fairly quick to get cars you want or modify them. Many cars you also win by playing so you can use your credits for just the things you want.
But paying 40 bucks or racing for about 3 to 4 hours (I don't know which race can earn the most per minute but I'm sure someone will figure that out) for maybe those couple cars I really want I still go for the grind. Unfortunately there are people paying that pay 300 usd for special Fortnite skins so Sony probably thinks why not a couple dozen for a car.
Ouch, aslong as its optional and the grind isnt ridiculous, i have no issues with it.
GT has always been a weird one to me as because the way you progress is currency to buy more things, it's easy for a 'skip', so to speak, to be added as microtransactions, yet Sony in all of their other games don't have such things (don't think I know another Sony game with microtransactions). In GT surely the best part of it is knowing you earned the money yourself and improved your cars and racing by playing the game.
Kind of annoying how the article doesn't even mention that you can earn all of the vehicles for free by just playing the game.
It is, but still, up to $40 to fully customize a car in a game with over 400 cars is inexcusable. Regardless if it's optional or not. Because if Sony is going head first in GaaS titles, they have to know they can't have insane mtx prices. Especially on $70 games.
I really want Sony to be better than the competition in this regard.
All you have to do is Google "how to earn credits fast in GT7" for a complete breakdown of it. Buying credits is for people that want the best stuff early in the game, but credit earning was not made so difficult in the regular game so as to be a necessity by any means for players that just play through the game.
I don't want Sony to be bad about that either, but for a purely optional purchase like this I think they understand how to do it right.
I was referencing previous experience because it shows grind in gran turismo isn't static and expensive 20 million cars tend to get added in over time in the case of the 20 million Ferrari 330 P4 it was way overpowered compared to other cars in the vintage race series and unlike many you couldn't win it or even buy it so grinding was the only way to acquire it , that doesn't mean that I don't agree with the criticism of this article it isn't well thought out and is premature.
Nothing is inexcusable to me as long as I can reasonably earn it in game. They could charge 1 million. As long as I can earn it in a reasonable amount of time I don't care what they charge people who want to bypass that. I personally like that companies are doing things like this. It's an extra way for the companies to make money which means my favorite devs make more money. Part of the reason you hear about these horrible working conditions at gaming companies is cause they are trying so hard to save money that they are hurting the people involved in making the great. games we love.
There's a reason Sony paid another billion + to Bungie to keep their employees. Sony knows better than most that a dev studio name doesn't mean anything if all the people who made that studio what it was leave. Paying people well is what it's all about.
You can earn all the credits you need from playing the game... You don't have to buy them.
WHAT!
It's just an option,
No need to use micro transaction it's only for the desperate and idiots swimming in money
im doing it oldschool. the sunday cut will be done 10-15 times until i can afford a faster car like PS2 days
Hey man no need for that. If you go the cafe route and pick up prizes plus the daily marathon you'll either have credits or cars in a way that seems sustainable without grinding.
I've never been a fan of mtx in general, but mtx in a full priced game just feels like a slap in the face. And with the PS5 version being $70 to jump in, that's an even harder pill to swallow and will get some bad PR out of this. I hope there's a way to earn credits through gameplay.
Please Sony, don't get too greedy in your push for GaaS titles and ruin such a legendary franchise like Gran Turismo.
As long as there are other reasonable ways of unlocking these things, I don't see too much issue. Sometimes, I do wish there were ways I could just pay for stuff rather than having to grind away.
Just earn the credits playing the game. This fuss about buying credits is only for those who want to buy cars using money to save time. You can still earn them in the game through playing.
Pay to short cut is pretty strange. You pay money that you don't have to play to game, just to have an in-game item. So weird. If you don't like playing the game, why do you pay for the game then?
Credits save people time thats all, if people want to earn the car in the game then you can. If you want it now then spend. Personally id prefer to earn a car than pay for it. Where is the fun in spending money for an in game item?
An entire young generation of gamers have been molded to think that it's a lot of fun to spend money on an in-game item.
I have a few mid teenage cousins on our Discord I play with every so often and they brag about how much they spent on Apex Legends for one of those heirlooms, and how one of them only had to spend $150 instead of $400 or something along those lines. And I'm thinking how ridiculous that sounds. It blew their mind when I told them how I had to earn armor sets back in Halo 3. They didn't understand how I didn't have to actually pay for it.
If you need to pay money to "save time" in a game, either you've kind of lost the point of playing games, or the developer has made the game tedious to play on purpose in order to tempt people to "save time."
Yep. If I think the grinding isn't worthy because it doesn't entertain me, MTX or not I would either not buy the game or not finish it.
There really is no reason to use it unless u desperate,
I won the Lambo veneno as a gift car on gt sport and it was worth 3,600,000.
Didn't have to spend a single dime it's just an option people always make things a big deal,
I think this is my 2nd time commenting haha
No mention that you are able to earn in game credits?
No transparency at all...
They won't see a damn dime from me on MTX. At least you can do the right way and just race to earn the credits and buy the cars, if you have more money than time and don't mind paying these ludicrous prices for credits go for it and line the pockets of PD.
I never spend money on MTX on any game. I refuse to support the practice. This is why I hate GaaS and go out of my way to support games as a product.
Same here. But well if other people want to expend their money I can't prevent them and well companies will take advantage of that. Still wholly agree with you on this being my biggest point against GAAS model.
Can u carry over recetly purchased dlcs from gt sport?
Don't think so.
Scummy to add MTX after most reviewers have given a score.
Not even sony can make non predatory live service games. I know this probably wont flop like babylons fall but I hope a message gets sent.
Sad, because you know the in game economy has been set up to entice people to use these microtransactions. This is exactly why I skipped every Forza on Xbone until they removed this shit from Horizon 3 and FM7. Sad to see it continue in GT after Sport.
But you also had Destruction All-Stars with SP content locked behind MTX, maybe this is the future of Sony GaaS titles.
Exactly if you can finish the whole SP game without grinding repeated events because of specific cars requirement then it is fine. Every GT so far we have had expensive cars but also prize cars for each event and money prize that we can use to tweak what we have and keep wining. So if this MTX is only for people that want to have every car without grinding then I won´t complain much (if I can finish the game have good prized cars for progression and the accumulated wealth allow me to buy one or two of the most expensive cars it is fine). And yes anyway the MTX conversion is just to step.
I ended up buying up the 20 million dollar ferrari 330 P4 for the vintage race series since it was the only series I hadn't won and it was a fucking grind since the other vintage era race cars were shit compared to it I spent money on two 10 million dollar cars and one 15 million since I usually don't need the fastest car and rely mainly on prize cars and the occasional buy to enter a series so I had most of my money and decided to move up to faster cars but in the end I had to grind out around 35 million of the 55 million all up and while they were better in the end than my starting cars , I went from around 23 secs behind to around 4 sec but I couldn't quite catch up to the ferrari's and they were overpowered no other car type won any of the numerous vintage series races, the funny thing the grind was so great that I who never spends money on cars was prepared to pay cash for the car but it wasn't for sale so lot of grinding for credits , once i owned one it was a breeze but come on a race GT40 that beat them in real life couldn't get near them.
