Details on player experience improvements, upcoming patches.
Dear Gran Turismo Community,
Thank you for your continued support and feedback on Gran Turismo 7, your voices have not gone unheard. I 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.
We know that this is not the Gran Turismo experience you expect and we will be making a goodwill gesture in the form of a non-paid credit pack of 1 million Cr. available to those players who may have been affected*. You will see this hit your accounts shortly. Make sure you log into the game before April 25 to claim the credits.
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.
To improve the player experience, we will be rolling out a considerable patch in the beginning of April. The number of events will be increased, and we will reestablish the reward system with greater balance throughout the game to benefit all players.
Updates which will come into effect beginning of April:
- Increase rewards in the events in the latter half of the World Circuits by approximately 100% on average.
- Addition of high rewards for clearing the Circuit Experience in all Gold/All Bronze results.
- Increase of rewards in Online Races.
- Include a total of eight new one-hour Endurance Race events to Missions. These will also have higher reward settings.
- Increase the upper limit of non-paid credits in player wallets from 20M Cr. to 100M Cr.
- Increase the quantity of Used and Legend cars on offer at any given time.
Beyond this there will be a few additional patches deployed between now and the end of April which will add new cars and course layouts and make some other fixes.
Finally, we also want to take the opportunity to lay out some of the near-term updates we are working on. We can’t confirm an exact date or specifics yet, but will give advance notice via www.gran-turismo.com.
- Increase the payout value of limited time rewards as we develop as a live service.
- Further World Circuit event additions.
- Addition of Endurance Races to Missions including 24-hour races.
- Addition of Online Time Trials and awarding of rewards according to the player’s difference with the top ranked time.
- Make it so cars can be sold.
We want to thank you for your continued patience and valuable feedback as we grow and evolve GT7 to make it as enjoyable and rewarding for as many players as possible. We always want to keep communication lines open with our community so that we can work together to build the best racing experience possible.
*Limit 1 per person. Must own a digital or physical copy of GT7 for PS4 or PS5 prior to the publication of this post (Friday, 25 March at 1:00am PST) and log into Gran Turismo 7 between Friday, March 25 at 5:00pm JST/8:00am GMT/ 1:00am PDT and Monday, April 25 at 5:00pm JST/8:00am GMT/ 1:00am PDT to receive the free credit pack.
I’ve been playing GT since the first release, how about bringing back some of the legacy cars from past games. I bought my digital copy just before the outage and had to wait to use it, it really needs an offline mode that you can test and tune cars if you can’t compete.
Great, now remove the always online requirement.
Thank you so much for an incredible
game and for the gift of credits.
For your upcoming updates could you please add the Isle of Man as a location that can be inputted for the Sport/online racing?
You know we exist, as you have Mark Higgins’ 2016 Subaru in the game.
GT7 focuses on the history of cars and so I’m sure you’re aware of how the TT Races began with cars and the Gordon Bennett Trophy, yet we don’t exist in the game!
We are not a part of England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales (for which you have real detail for specific locations) and so it would be nice to be recognised as a location and maybe even have our own flag 🇮🇲 to race under in the livery options.
Thanks for listening and keep up the amazing work with the game!
Shame we all had to scream at the top of our lungs for fixes to be put into place. And shame that it’ll be a wait to be able to sell cars. I’ll reinstall the game once that feature has been added.
Hoping PD also doesn’t skimp on the online rewards increase. Online takes so long to get into a race, that the rewards for them really should be worth that wait.
Happy to hear the used car lot and legends will have a higher quantity of cars. It needs it.
Car invitations still need to go however. That will never not feel scummy with the option to buy credits outright in place. Let that idea go. It’s stupid in the real world, which means it’s far stupider here in a video game.
It takes a lit of courage and shows how much Kazunori cares about making everyone happy with this game. Its impossible to accomplish that!
I think that he deserves a big fat “THANK YOU” and his team as well for tirelessly working on and improving this game!
We can all agree that we need to give him and his team some time and be patient while they are working out some of the details that we adress in our community and respect the fact that he and his team at Polyphony are trying to make this the best experience for everyone who acquired a copy of GT7!
THANK YOU KAZ!!! 😎👌
It takes a lot of courage and shows how much Kazunori cares about making everyone happy with this game. Its impossible to accomplish that!
I think that he deserves a big fat “THANK YOU” and his team as well for tirelessly working on and improving this game!
We can all agree that we need to give him and his team some time and be patient while they are working out some of the details that we adress in our community and respect the fact that he and his team at Polyphony are trying to make this the best experience for everyone who acquired a copy of GT7!
THANK YOU KAZ!!! 😎👌
What about Lobby? Any update?
Please remove the always online requirements. It’s frustrating to experience being kicked from the single player experience when all I’m here for is the single player experience.
I didn’t realize at the time of preordering a physical copy that GT7 would require what is essentially DRM. Had I known at the time I would have skipped this purchase all together. That part is on me but don’t let that excuse your company from better practices.
Awesome to see you guys changing things back around. I’ll probably be hoping back in sometime soon after the update.
Dear Sony and Polyphony. The underrated Driveclub should’ve been your template for a racing game. Then added the GT flavor of sim racing.
What’s next? Betraying the fanbase established across 25+ years by releasing GT7 on PC as well? Just to further stab us in the back and show us how little we mean anymore? All the while advertising how much better the game is versus PS5?
I suppose if there is a small saving grace for the stabbed fanbase, it is that PC games get cracked very quickly, so the zero spending gamers have to make on first party games will make up for PC costs and you won’t get any third party game sales commission as your install base simply don’t see the value of the ecosystem anymore.
Games should be in every platform, that’s not the point here.
And don’t talk about fanbase when you’re just advocating for your selfish self.
No, they shouldn’t. Not unless one believes the only future should be PC gaming, in which case PS should just shut down right now. They won’t survive as a new Sega.
And don’t talk about gaming being monopolised when you’re just advocating complete rubbish for your pathetic worthless self.
Welp, tough life for you, because games are going multiplatform and there’s nothing you can do about it.
Cope.