The reception to Gran Turismo 7 was overwhelmingly positive up until this week, but a series of unforced errors have prompted the reputation of the simulation racer to plummet. Following a patch – which adjusted the release’s in-game currency payouts, and then ultimately broke the game – fans have been taking to sites like Metacritic to review bomb the title.
At the time of writing, it commands 2.5/10 User Score, with many of the harsher appraisals arriving in the past few days. “If you are a casual player like me, you are f****d,” one person wrote. “Microtransactions are present and some cars are impossible to buy without real money or insane grind. You cannot play the game without an Internet connection!”
Another said: “So the cars you cannot afford in real life are not affordable in this s**t game as well! Don’t buy any more Gran Turismo 7 and let them know what…
