Denchlad 7
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
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Posted - 2014.05.14 10:59:00 -
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It does often occur to me that CCP has a habit of backtracking on their decisions. However, although they do if more than any company I know of right now, one other Game Developer has this same problem.
That company is Polyphony Digital, who produce the PS exclusive Gran Turismo series, and the GT Academy Gamer To Racer program. The amount of backtracking they have done starts back in 2004, when Gran Turismo 4 was being released. Now, GT1, 2, 3 & 4 are excellent games (the prior 2 for PS1, the latter 2 for PS2, which I still play and 100% both + hold WR's in both), but when it came to Gran Turismo 5... oh dear.
After 4 years of ignoring the community (look up GTPlanet), they released a free demo called GT:HD, which was excellent. This led to GT5 Prologue, and finally in November 2010, GT5 was released. It recieved critical acclaim for "pushing the PS3 to very limit" *cough ccp*, had over 1000 vehicles, and tracks from all over the world.
But with fundamental flaws. Cars were split into 2 distinct categories. Premium - Brand new additions to the game in HQ with fully fitted interiors for the interior camera, lovely vehicles. Then there was Standard cars. Ported from GT4, shoddy quality, no interior. Ugly, and dated. These cars pissed off the community on levels equal with us about Legion. And then came the nerfs!
BHP, Torque and handling for all cars above 999,999 Cr was reduced to stop superior players dominating online. That culled the playerbase massively (I left at this point for Dirt 3), they then stopped in game trading for cars above 999,999 Cr. too, because people found an exploit to dupe cars (including the 20,000,000 Cr. Red Bull X2010). Then, at the start of 2012, they released some fairly shoddy and overpriced DLC, and all the promised content was then not given to GT5 - they put it into a new game! Gran Turismo 6! Sounds familiar eh?
GT6 was finally released in December 2013. Holy **** what a pile of **** that game was. Cars are harder to get. Career mode is awful. Online is atrocius. Standard cars still exist (10 year old in game models still not updated), 100km x 100km Track Editor not included, certain cars and tracks not included, Data Logger not included, and so on, all of which were promised.
DLC was promised in February. It is yet to be released and the devs have not said a tbing about it at all since. Free DLC marking the anniversary of the death of the legendary Ayrton Senna was promised for the 1st May, the day itself, instead only half of its being released on 27th May.
At this point GT5 had 95,000 people still playing daily - GT6 had 20,000. So what do they do? Announce GT5 Online is ending on May 31st! So people have to pay -ú40--ú60 for a game thats worse!
I hope CCP doesnt do this with Legion, Gran Turismo was my all timd favourite game till PD ****** it up. Dont screw us over, CCP.
(And theres my contribution! I shall be extending this story till the 17th also  )
I will be the only player to Prototype every single god damn weapon before Dust dies. I swear to it.
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Denchlad 7
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
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Posted - 2014.05.17 10:59:00 -
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Pasta with butter on it tastes far superior than to normal pasta, but strangely makes it taste exactly like butter and removes the flavour of the Pasta entirely, unless you add sauce #foodfact
I will be the only player to Prototype every single god damn weapon before Dust dies. I swear to it.
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