Gran Turismo 7’s user rating is the lowest ever on Metacritic. This review bombardment was motivated, among other things, by recent concerns about microtransactions.
While all was well for Gran Turismo 7 with a press rating of 87 on PS5 in the best of all possible worlds, Polyphony Digital’s car sim has been seriously bombarded by critics. This is the fall with the players who stormed the Metacritic Rating Aggregator to materialize their dissatisfaction.
The maintenance that doesn’t exist
Within hours, Gran Turismo 7 became the ugly duckling despite its intrinsic quality. For what motive? The title has been unavailable for more than 30 hours in both single and multiplayer modes. In fact, with its obligatory connection, GT7 cannot be enjoyed offline except in two modes.
This lengthy maintenance, the reason for which we don’t really know despite the press release, left a bitter taste and some rushed to Metacritic do Collapsing user rating which is now 2/10. Yes it’s still down as it was 2.5 a few hours ago.
This places the software among the lowest-rated games in Metacritic history, ahead of World of Warriors (2.9), NBA 10 The Inside (3.0), and Cool Boarders 2001 (3.3). We’ll still add a nuance by stating that if this review bombing was initiated by players irritated by these issues, it’s also possible that trolls took the opportunity to tarnish this episode’s image. A process that is unfortunately common in large games.
Gran Turismo 7: The rejection of microtransactions
But the microtransactions have also increased user dissatisfaction. In and of themselves they are not new to the license and have been there since release, but the latest 1.7 update has caused quite a mess.
In fact, the Japanese studio has discreetly rebalanced the credits assigned to players after each race, but not to the benefit of virtual pilots. In some cases, the winnings are much smaller than before the patch or even compared to Gran Turismo Sport. For example, the GT Cup Gr. 3 Autodrome Lago Maggiore from 75,000 to 50,000 credits. Not to mention the prices of vehicles that have also increased, like the Porsche 919 Hybrid 16, which shows up for $2.99 in GT Sport versus $40 in GT7. Nice inflation. Other races are more generous, like the World Touring Car 800 at the Le Mans 24 Hours circuit and its 70,000 credits, compared to 5,000 before.
If Kazunori Yamauchi wants prices to reflect reality, he has promised “Additional content, the addition of race events and other features that will solve this problem constructively”.
