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2. Using A Remote Play Script That Auto-Grinds Credits - Gran Turismo 7
Gran Turismo fans have a storied history of finding ways to circumvent the long grind for credits, from using a rubber-band to automate A-spec grinding in Gran Turismo 5, to rinsing a glitch in Gran Turismo 6 that let you farm 20 million credits in just three minutes.
But with Gran Turismo 7 coming under intense scrutiny for its frankly brutal car prices, and developers Polyphony Digital even patching in price hikes to further encourage players to spend real money on credits, some very clever players came up with a staggeringly creative way to automate the grind.
By using Sony's Remote Play app on PC, players can run a script which automatically repeats the same race over and over again, potentially farming up to around 20 million credits per day.
Considering that players need to acquire over 400 million credits to buy every car in the game, amounting to hundreds of hours of running the same repetitive races given the meagre amount of launch content, letting your PC do the heavy lifting while you sleep is certainly an appealing alternative.
It's a shame that a game as fundamentally enjoyable as Gran Turismo 7 is encouraging players to do this, yet with the exploit having been known for over two months now, at least Polyphony doesn't seem to be trying to stop players from doing it.