Games Inbox: Gran Turismo 7 microtransactions, Ubisoft open world bloat, and Psychonauts 2

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The Monday letters page asks whether Elden Ring is worth a 10/10 score or not, as one reader hopes for Gran Turismo 7 VR.

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Going on the list Just adding my voice to the wave of discontent over Gran Turismo 7’s update last week, specifically the nerfing of credit payouts for events. As annoying as the server woes were these things happen from time to time (I made peace with the always online requirement before buying the game).

Altering the progression of the game, however, to encourage further microtransaction purchases absolutely stinks. I saw the suggestion from Kazunori Yamauchi that players should wait and see the longer term plan, but that’s a feeble and vague statement that should have been made before asking gamers to shell out £70.

I really hope some enterprising sort takes it on themselves to look into the legality of this, as it can’t be right for any company to significantly alter a product for the worse after purchase. Imagine buying a new car and then two weeks later the manufacturer switches off the ABS!laj105 (PSN ID)

Getting worse I picked up a copy of Gran Turismo 7 on Friday and have had a good few hours of play time over the weekend – first of all it’s absolutely beautiful and a lot of fun to play, I’ve been concentrating on the menus to start with and have had a couple of races with a friend online too which have been great. I’m baffled, though, by all the bad press regarding microtransactions. So far I haven’t seen any or even a suggestion of microtransactions being in the game at all?

I also picked up a copy of Dying Light 2, but I haven’t played anywhere near enough of that to have any kind of opinion yet!Rickandrolla

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