Gran Turismo 7 now has Sony’s lowest user score ever on Metacritic

The vast majority of GT7’s user reviews were posted on or after March 17, when developer released a controversial patch reducing payouts from the game’s races, thus making it harder to unlock new cars without spending on microtransactions.

GT7 was also offline for more than 24 hours between the 17^th and 18^th, which made it nearly unplayable due to the significant amount of content it requires an internet connection to access.

Even before the latest patch, VGC reported that some of Gran Turismo 7’s cars cost as much as eight times what they did on Gran Turismo Sport, if purchased using real money.

Now, a new analysis by fansite GTPlanet suggests GT7 takes far longer to earn credits than its recent predecessors. According to its analysis, it could take players nearly 20 hours of grinding in order to earn enough to purchase just one of the game’s most expensive cars.

Understandably, the combination of slow in-game payouts combined with expensive microtransactions has led to widespread criticism from the game’s community.

One prominent presenter, who has featured on official broadcasts, publicly condemned what he called the “stupid amounts of time” it takes to earn credits in GT7. The tweet has been retweeted and liked thousands of times, including by professional