Grinding is a regressive game design. It doesnt matter to me that the grind is the same as in GT5, I'm betting its still really long(especially for those whom are not skilled and cant go online or dont want to).
It's a crutch for flaws in game design. They think their game isnt fun to play for very long so they have to slow the players progress as much as possible without it getting to frustrating. I expect they spend hours designing and gating the content according to how they want the player to progress.
Then they end up with about 80 percent of the players not progressing very far(as other threads found out about the trophy rarity in GT5), and fewer players whom will buy the next game.
I dont understand why it matters how fast players progress, why slow them down so much, what does it matter after they have paid for the game. Why not have it like a real racing career, where the race rewards due to skill become exponential. But thats not likely to happen now the grind is baked in its required to justify the transactions. Even if the grind is better than Forza its still bad it doesnt need to be that way.
It makes me laugh, they put all this work in, to build this huge amount of content, when probably less than ten percent of players see much of it.
Adding microtransactions to me means they admit the game design is flawed. Their trying to fix it the wrong way(or just trying to make a quick sleazy buck).
But i saw some comments earlier that the credits payout in GT6 seems to be more generous compared to GT5.
