Gran Turismo 7: New Update Coming This April 2022

Taking criticism to heart, Polyphony Digital promises 1 million credits and a rebalancing of the whole economy after the Gran Turismo 7 April update.

Polyphony Digital President and Gran Turismo 7 developer Kazunori Yamauchi has published an update to address one of the community’s complaints about the newly launched PS4 and PS5 Gran Turismo 7: balances in the economy that impact vehicle prices and the benefits that come with them.

Reward levels were lowered after launch, resulting in players taking advantage of the easiest races to avoid purchasing microtransactions, and Metacritic’s review bombing: now at 1.5 in the user’s remark.

“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.”
– Kazunori Yamauchi, President of Polyphony Digital

Kazunori Yamauchi (Image Courtesy of Gamer Braves)

According to Yamauchi, the prior update was to fix an issue relating to uneven awards in the track experience.

Updates that 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 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.

SOURCE: PlayStation Blog

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