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 recently purchased the game (yesterday) and it will not let me progress i can only play the first 3 races and do the license challenges i have deleted and reinstalled the game but it still hasn’t done anything i’m dissatisfied and i would like it to be fixed please i hope you hear me out and fix the bugs in your game-raien
Did anyone else experience this today when they logged in to GT7?
I was prompted to install an update. I log in and play daily. I noticed there was no information posted explaining the update like we usually see. My system tells me I am on update 1.12 from April 12th. However I accepted and watched an update this morning. Since doing so
I found 2 “issues” and 1 change affected me. First, my haptic triggers were acting as if switched “off”. I went to the menu to change to “strong” or “weak”, but only found a slider for “vibration intensity” 0-150. I could not locate the haptic feedback controls in the menu. I simply dont have haptic triggers anymore. I checked to see if the controller needed an update and it did not. Second issue is related to the ability to select display mode as “frame rate” versus “ray tracing”. The option to do so is no longer appearing in the display settings and my eyes seem to tell me I’m not in ray trace when I go and look at cars in scapes scenes. The final observation is that I noticed a new option added to the volume menu to add an option to select 2 channel or 7.1. This is a welcome chamge as previously that could only be done in the console settings. If anyone else has found anything similar please let me know if you found a way to correct it. Thanks.
Would it be possible to get more 6 stars tickets? I only get 2 (one from the last coffee mission)
And the possibility to change the rules/tracks etc as in GT Sport in a lobby. It’s kinda annoying to leave the lobby and create a new one with full rules etc and not being able to get a reverse grid for a second race. Also to get back the qualifying.
And would it be possible to get a more random weather? There is only wet or dry but not random. It would be fun to be able to create 1h races in a lobby with the possibility to get 20m dry then rain for 15m and then dry again for 25m.
And what about Grand Valley Speedway, Suzuki Escudo and Toyota GT one?