At least with fro a you can earn credits while Ur not playing which seems everyone seems to forget

I'm not really mad about using real money to buy in game money. It's not like it can make you a better player. $49.99 for 7 million credits though!? It doesn't even take long to get 7 million.

This. When I was done playing for the day, or just whenever I was watching TV, I would have my AI driver do endurance races. Occasionally I would check on his progress, but that was it.

This is key to this concept. While I am no fan of the whole micro transaction model.  If it means games continue to play like previous entries then I am not bothered too much.  I guess some rich impatient person will drop hundred quid on a car much like the old horse armor.

The thing is that while microtransactions in games like this and dead space 3 might not matter because they don't play differently. They give the option to pay to cheat.

It slowly opens the door to the transition of microtransactions inhibiting gameplay.

If earning credits is the same as GT5, not a big deal. However, if it's harder to earn credits in GT6, then we have a problem.

I'm very happy that they've decided to keep the economy and race prizes as they were instead of gimping them to make you buy credits, as their competition has done. And the 28 free cars post-launch doesn't hurt.

Adding any micro-transactions to a full price game is an inherent step backwards though. Keep your head on Kaz and don't get too greedy..

That's stupid.

somebody would have to be stupid to pay the high end prices

This whole argument about someone having a job/married/kids is completely overplayed. If gaming is getting in the way of other priorities in life then you should consider putting aside gaming.  We all have things that are more important than gaming (for most people), but we play as a recreation in free time. Playing through a game to unlock things and eventually beating it is the core experience of a game.

That said, personally I don't care either if another guy unlocks stuff quicker with real money. I have no problems with that. What I do have a problem with is how devs will implement MTs into games. From past experience, we know that pubs will do whatever they can to nickle and dime people beyond just getting their 60 dollars......online passes, day one DLC, on disc DLC, DRM.

Microtransactions on retail games is just the next step. Right now it's only tacked on and at an experimental stage, but soon enough it'll become part of the game design philosophy such as how DLCs are nowadays (publishers announce DLC season passes for a game before the game is even released). I fully anticipate them trying to do whatever they can to make paying to unlock more appealing than just playing the game normally such as making the grinding tougher and more unbearable. At that point, my experience with the game is being affected when compared to the case when MTs are not present at all because the game is designed from the ground up with MTs in mind.