Everybody's Golf Arrives on August 29 For PlayStation 4 - Post Impressions

[Earl1963]

Quote: Originally Posted by Alfie

I read that P2W (Pay to Win) is a huge aspect once you move up in the ranks - 7 or thereabouts and unlock custom clubs. Apparently the only way to level up those clubs is by using tickets and gems. If you do it by playing the game it will be realistically impossible and have heard that quite a few folks are paying for upgraded custom clubs online. Once online tourneys are introduced and nothing is done to even the playing field, it will essentially lead to folks paying for clubs having a huge advantage and will simply kill off online mode. Here's the post I cam across on neogaf and apparently quite a few others have spoken in similar vein once higher rankings are reached... Hope Sony & ClapHanz do something about it as P2W risks ruining a pretty good game.

Damn that sounds awful. Companies are being pretty greedy.


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[Alfie]

Quote: Originally Posted by DivotMaker

P2W ruins EVERY game.

Corrected

[Alfie]

Quote: Originally Posted by Earl1963

Damn that sounds awful. Companies are being pretty greedy. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

True that! I don't mind paid DLCs and upgrades as long as they are not mandatory and the game is not tilted in favor of folks who pay their way to the top.

Thankfully I'm stuggling at Rank 4 in single player mode so nowhere close to facing the issues mentioned but if P2W impacts online the game will be reduced to a offline multiplayer game. Hope it doesn't happen though.

[Alfie]

Quick question folks... I noticed that the game has stopped recording my best shots (Birdies, Eagles, Albatross) for official tourneys automatically the way it used to earlier. Now either I have to use PS4's Share function to record my best shots or I lose the shot.

Does anyone know how I can re-enable the auto-video recording of best holes automatically in the game? I checked the game and I have video slots available but nothing's recorded since Aug 31 for me. I made a pretty good shot for Eagle today and assumed it was recorded but when I checked it wasn't there and same with all the good shots since the last couple of days

[ComfortablyLomb]

I'm enjoying this game but I saw the P2W insanity over the Neogaff forum and, well, if CH and/or Sony don't alter course this game is dead. What a disaster.

[Stormyhog]

Yeah if pay to win is what it takes to compete than I'll be putting the game aside for good sooner than later. I don't mind dlc for things like courses, skins etc as that doesn't affect the games balance. Such a great game marred by greed.

[ODogg]

Anyone know when I can get the older, black lady caddy that was in the old hot shots golf?


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[bcruise]

Quote: Originally Posted by Alfie

I read that P2W (Pay to Win) is a huge aspect once you move up in the ranks - 7 or thereabouts and unlock custom clubs. Apparently the only way to level up those clubs is by using tickets and gems. If you do it by playing the game it will be realistically impossible and have heard that quite a few folks are paying for upgraded custom clubs online. Once online tourneys are introduced and nothing is done to even the playing field, it will essentially lead to folks paying for clubs having a huge advantage and will simply kill off online mode. Here's the post I cam across on neogaf and apparently quite a few others have spoken in similar vein once higher rankings are reached... Hope Sony & ClapHanz do something about it as P2W risks ruining a pretty good game.

Yeah, the writing was on the wall for this when we saw the $40 price tag, unfortunately - that's why I'm less surprised about this than I should be. I hit rank 7 a few hours ago and it's pretty much as that post described (as far as I can tell without actually spending anything more than the 10 gems I'd collected around open courses).

It's disappointing and aggravating, but it's not going to stop me from having fun with the game - nobody really knows what the tournament structure is yet, and all you can really do right now is play one-off rounds while trying to improve your score. I'll save the real despair for when we find out the custom clubs can be used in tournament play. What will really be a shame is if the P2W trivializes the Championship tees, which bring quite a bit more challenge to some of the early courses.

I'll say this though - Imperial Garden is a TOUGH course that's going to require a lot more than bought skills in order to score well. enormous pot bunkers, extremely narrow fairways and greens that slope right down into watery dropoffs. It seems as challenging as any of the other final HSG courses I've played, and that's just on the regular tees.

The worst part of the whole thing is that it's hidden behind the endgame.