The (un)Official Gran Turismo 5 Thread of: Duping!

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lestatdark said:

The issue is devaluation of cars that weren't meant to be "used" by anyone right from the start. 

I have no issue with people passing over the P330, Mark IV, XJ13, 787b and so on, these are your typical Race Cars in any other GT's, but when it comes to the X1, F2007 and F2010, it's pretty clear, given their physics and their difficulty to handle, that they're not cars for everyone.

The situation is getting pretty out of hand when you're seeing tons of lobbies popping up with X1 races and almost no one is able to drive them. I mean, I went into one of those lobbies, Le Mans with change time/weather, 5 laps and 15 other X1's. I won the race with more than 1:25 minutes advantage.

It's a pretty similar situation to what happened in Diablo II LOD, before version 1.12b, where everyone and their mothers were having tons of Buriza's, Enigma's, Shackos and everything else and we're roaming around on PVP using them like crap and getting owned by DII vets. That's why bots became prevalent on DII before the ladder reset in 1.12b.

Heck, there are people on ebay already selling X1's for other people's accounts http://cgi.ebay.com/Gran-Turismo-5-RED-BULL-X1-RACE-CAR-VETTEL-X2010-DLC-/290515985793?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43a41a2581#ht_500wt_1156. This is all too similar to what happens in mmo's, on sites like http://d2items.com/ and so on. When it becomes an issue of cash or connections rather than skill, it devalues the meaning of the actual item, in this case, the cars in GT5.

At some point, cars like the P330 and Mark IV, etc, had value like the X1. 20 million credits is definitely not cheap. Then the birthday exploit came along and ruined that. You say you have no issue with those being passed around but I'm pretty sure those who were dedicated enough to buy the cars themselves weren't happy one bit when everyone and their dog starting getting one.

This is the same thing you're feeling right now:  you worked hard for the car, now tons of retards that can't even drive it have one now. You're obviously bothered by it. The point I'm getting at:  you don't care that some historic cars are being passed around like hookers. Should those same people care that your X1 is now in the same position? 

When it comes to X1's being playable online, that's another issue itself. Even before the duping started, PD should've known that anyone that got the car would take it online to dominate unrestricted races. There should've been an option specifically to disallow X1's.

The problem still isn't comparable an mmo. It's a completely different situation. People duping X1's isn't changing the way you race and play. I'm almost completely sure that PD knew this would be a side effect of backup saves. The possibility of duping cars was popping up in everyone's minds before the patch was even out. The Ebay thing doesn't mean anything - people sell everything they possibily can on there.

It's really just a matter of waiting to see if PD is gonna let it go on, or do somethin to fix it.