There's still your racer level that can't be bought that will restrict what cars you can buy.

Anyway how is someone buying it for $100 different from car dupes, save game editors and B-Spec grinding to get cars fast. Racer level became an unreliable metric too when people found glitches to drive 200 laps underneath certain tracks in 10 minutes.

Trophy count and gamerscore don't mean much either with easy plat games, trophy guides, hacks and people sharing accounts. The $100 paying category will be a minority. Just play games for fun, it's no a status symbol.

That said,  microtransactions suck, period. Although I don't care about people showing up with real money bought cars, I am worried it will at some point affect the game economy. I've seen what selling characters and money online in mmorpgs does to the game. Luckily GT6 doesn't have an online auction house.

Yeah that's how I feel about it.

It will happen, and the thing is, People are impulsive and have spent thousands of dollars on some games like the candy crush you mention. I think unfortunately this will be successful. The people spending money on dumb things will outweigh the people not buying it on principle.  Which would make this model overall a success. It will slowly creep on more an more things, this is essentially an extension of DLC and it's becoming more and more nickel and diming you.

Some people like CD Projekt might not implement it, but my prediction is that MS, Sony, SE, Activision, EA, Capcom or most of the big name publisher will adopt this.

I'm calling it. This game will gonna have the same review score as forza 5 or even more worse.

lol just lol, for GT6 to score as bad as forza 5 PD would have to remove over 70% of the content,for me i couldn't care less what it scores i'm still getting it and i'm still going to play it just like i have with GT5, ps GT5 scored more than forza 5 so for GT6 to score less than forza 5 it would have to be worse than GT5, not going to happen lol.

It looks like at least one person in NA bought the 7 million in game credit.

And if the post above me is true, at least one person has already used that system in a 60$/70€ game. I'm all up for letting people spend their money as they see fit, but the problem is that the grand majority of the consumers just don't care if their actions affect negatively on an industry as a whole. 

It's worrying when you think about where microtransactions will lead down the road. A lot of people thought that DLC was the epithome of nickel and diming back in 2006 and now something much worse reared it's ugly head on this generation. 

there are far worse examples of games heavily forcing micro transactions ie "real racing 3" or "GT racing 2", both of these games deliberately make you earn little in the way of rewards and have time penalties when upgrading/repairing vehicles which lets you bypass this time restriction by using two forms of game currency, GT6's micro transactions are not forced onto the player like they are in the two mentioned " " racing games.

Those are F2P games, not fully priced games. If GT6 or any full priced games used a deliberate "paywall" to allow you to actually make progress in game, then gaming would be as good as dead.

Sadly, if the microtransactions on F2P are anything to go by, if they actually become "sucessful" on full priced games, then, eventually, the day will come that some greedy developer or publisher is gonna implement the same system on a 60$/70€ game.

i dont get it, why do people need achievments?? even glueing a puzzle and hanging it on the wall makes more sense in my opinion.

Ban Microtransactions!