Gran Turismo 7’s developers apologize for the grind, promise fixes and a million free credits
Gran Turismo 7 developer Polyphony Digital is apologizing for the changes recently introduced to the game’s economy and is promising improvements, along with a million free credits. These changes come after the game had a massive outage last week, which was the result of an update that also made changes to how players could earn credits by actually playing the game rather than through microtransactions.
In a post on the PlayStation Blog, Polyphony president Kazunori Yamauchi apologized 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.” As a “goodwill gesture,” the company promises to give players “a non-paid credit pack of 1 million” credits.
The post says that users should see the credits in their accounts “shortly” and that they’ll only be given to people who owned the game before the post was published. While I don’t seem to have gotten mine yet, the deadline for logging in and receiving them is a ways out — Polyphony says the offer is good until April 25th.
The post explains that the changes to the in-game economy were made to “provide more accurate rewards based on time investment and completion,” something Yamauchi touched on before when talking about the outage. At the time, he said he couldn’t explain any upcoming changes in detail, but Friday’s post seems to be that explanation.
The post describes a patch that’s coming out in the beginning of April, meant to “reestablish the reward system with greater balance throughout the game to benefit all players.” After the update, players should notice:
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