Today, because of the long game maintenance time and micro-transactions of "GT7", as of press time, the game's player rating on the M station has dropped to 1.8 points, falling below 2 points, although the game sales are good, but it still can't change the situation that the rating continues to decline.
The comments section is still dominated by bad reviews such as the inability to resell cars on the market, developer Polyphony Digital cutting the amount of in-game currency earned by racing cars, long maintenance cycles, and the game's constant need to be connected to the Internet.
While most of the bad reviews were posted during the game's extended maintenance time, negative reviews have continued to grow since the game server went live.
Some of the bad reviews involved the price of the game's top premium vehicles, which fluctuated constantly and upwards, and players said they encouraged microtransaction spending. Developer Polyphony Digital even seems to make it harder to get these vehicles through regular games, cutting back on players' revenue from winning on certain tracks.
Series founder Kazunori Yamauchi defended in-game vehicle pricing in a statement released after the game recovered from an extended maintenance period. While the developers subsequently promised that future events and upcoming content would "constructively address" the issue, players remained unhappy with how the game worked in the latest patch.