I'm very curious at how much will the Ferrari 250 GTO cost. It's the most expensive car in history, reaching 70 million US dolars back in 2018.
A Porsche 917K, listed now at 18 million credits in game, could be sold at around 14 to 18 million in the current market, from what I could gather from admitedly brief searches on the subject. The #21 driven by Steve McQueen was estimated that could go as high as US$ 18,5 million last year. So, yeah, for the sake of the argument, we could say that GT7 prices are following the market, as advertised.
That brings the question: if prices in game are really set to relate the real world ones, would we see a Ferrari 250 GTO going for 70 million credits? If we do get this, well, that'll restrict access to the car to people who bought credits with real money, since the game has a stupid 20 million credits cap for "free" credits you earn doing stuff.
Let that sink in for a moment. No matter how much you play, you won't be able to buy it. Period.
On the other hand, let's say someone has a stroke of common sense and fixes the 250 GTO price at traditional GT levels where the most expensive cars would top at 20 million credits. If that happens, it'll be evident that the Hagerty thing is just a gimmick and that what really decides prices are the need to gate content. to direct people to MTX and create some artificial scarcity. Not only that, but it'll break the system completely, since it doesn't make sense that a 250GTO would cost just a bit more than a McLaren F1.
