PS3 Gran Turismo: Is this a joke?

["Nerve-Damage"]

Look Ahead: 2006

Meanwhile, PS3 owners will have good reason to look forward to the next Gran Turismo game. In a quest to bring an unsurpassed level of realism to the genre, you'll start your racing career with a battered Honda Civic and have to buy all your upgrades from knockoff dealers on Ebay.

I’ll bite…is this a joke?

(I.e. like buying gear, weapons, ECT as you would do in an online RPG game except its cars from eBay)

 

[London Geezer]

Look Ahead: 2006



I’ll bite…is this a joke?

(I.e. like buying gear, weapons, ECT as you would do in an online RPG game except its cars from eBay)

I think the eBay thing gave it away... just my 2 pennies...

 

["Nerve-Damage"]

I think the eBay thing gave it away... just my 2 pennies...

I wasn’t too much thinking about the eBay part, but rather the possibility of earning points or actually buying car upgrades on the possible PS3 network.

Besides hasn’t eBay been used to sell/auction off stupid stuff like weapons, spells, ECT, for RPG games…those major PC RPG titles. If I remember correctly some guy in Japan or China was killed for taking virtual property and another put in jail for taking virtual property.

 

[Johnny_Physics]

I can't be the only one that interprets that as a virtual eBay, or a simple virtual marketplace that carries low-cost and used parts that you need in the beginning of your GT career, right?

Right?

 

["Nerve-Damage"]

I can't be the only one that interprets that as a virtual eBay, or a simple virtual marketplace that carries low-cost and used parts that you need in the beginning of your GT career, right?

Right?

Thats kind-of what I was thinking

 

[Laa-Yosh]

Perhaps they plan to add bidding as a mini-game?

 

[Farid]

Perhaps they plan to add bidding as a mini-game?

Yeah, and scamming people by selling them the box of an item at the full price will grant you an Ebay International-A License.

 

[London Geezer]

Yeah, and scamming people by selling them the box of an item at the full price will grant you an Ebay International-A License.

Hey it IS the REAL driving simulation, it's only fair if it also becomes the REAL bidding simulation!! Including people selling you Ferrari F40's for 5 dollars... and send you a picture.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

GT3 had you buying components for your car from traders. But you didn't really, they were just virtual stores. I think you're reading with your serious hat on. This sounds like a joke look into the future of games where the journalist is making a (now ubiquitous) quip at the prominence of eBay in modern trading. No game in it's right mind is ever going to force players to pay money to progress* (except arcade games ) especially not over a network like eBay instead of a custom service.

* Games of course will encourage people to spend money to improve their vehicle/character/card set etc.

 

[London Geezer]

Well, i'm sure i've heard of people selling Everquest items on eBay for real money? Like, very rare or powerful items... or whatever those everquest freaks consider "cool"?

Not that i'm taking this too seriously, but i guess it could happen with GT items or cars too...

 

[!eVo!-X Ant UK]

I can't be the only one that interprets that as a virtual eBay, or a simple virtual marketplace that carries low-cost and used parts that you need in the beginning of your GT career, right?

Right?

My thoughts exactly, a sort of on-line mini GT5 only ebay were you can trade parts with every one around the world

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Not as a requirement from the game devs to progress through the game though. You won't start with a battered Honda Civic and have to go onto eBay to buy upgrades for real cash. Progression through the game will be possible without leaving the game. There might be a situation where people have unlocked rare cars and can somehow distribute them, at which point there probably will be someone selling them on eBay, and maybe even the devs will sell them there (any Everquest programmer should already have a stockpile of hacked items they can auction and augment their salary. I'd be pissed if after writing a game with a Vorpal Sword of Transient Beheading, someone gets paid $5000 for selling that collection of variables on eBay!) but the game won't require that.

 

[Johnny_Physics]

My thoughts exactly, a sort of on-line mini GT5 only ebay were you can trade parts with every one around the world

I was rather thinking of something easier for them to implement, something exactly like the old GT-stores but with an eBay-themed picture in the background when you shop for crap-gear

 

[Synergy34]

Sounds pretty cool if it is an eBay in game, using of course in game money you get from racing.