driveclub DRIVECLUB PS Plus Edition Postponed until further notice - Message from Shuhei Yoshida

[Eudemon]

[headline]DRIVECLUB PS Plus Edition Postponed[/headline]

President of Sony Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida has posted a message on the official DRIVECLUB facebook informing that the PS Plus Edition of the game will be postponed until they are certain they can guarantee the proper support for its release. It's a shame as this pours even more bad feeling towards Evolution Studios who to be honest are incredible at what they do but something always seems to spoil their achievements.

Message from Shuhei Yoshida - President of World Wide Studios

 

Hi everyone,

 

I wanted to provide you with the latest update on DRIVECLUB. Unfortunately, the road to launch has been a little rocky, and we are truly sorry that so many of you have not been able to enjoy everything that we had hoped DRIVECLUB would deliver.

 

We have been listening to your feedback and realize that patience understandably is running out. Evo is working around the clock to close the gap, and we have deployed additional engineering resources to help resolve the remaining issues as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the time frames required to roll out the fully connected experience will be longer than anticipated and we do not have an exact time frame for when they will be resolved. We will continue to update you on progress and you can find the latest info on the DRIVECLUB Facebook page.

 

We are also very conscious that we have disappointed so many of you who were looking forward to playing the promised PS Plus Edition. Our first priority is to provide you with the best possible experience while playing DRIVECLUB. With the high volume of new players and additional server load the PS Plus Edition is anticipated to bring, we are currently not confident that we can guarantee the best online experience. Until we can ensure that everyone can enjoy the full social connected online experience, we will be postponing the release of the PS Plus Edition until further notice.

 

On behalf of WWS we are enormously grateful for your patience and we thank you for the continued support and encouragement. Again, we sincerely apologize for the delay. We are committed to giving you the best racing experience on PS4 – it’s taking a little longer than we hoped.

 

Thanks,

Shu

 

Sauce: DRIVECLUB facebook

 

So if you were waiting for the free PS Plus Edition to try this game and see if it the full upgrade was worth going for then unfortunately you'll just have to wait until it gets the greenlight. With the recent issues Sony's PSN has been suffering something has to be done and their infrastructure needs a massive boost in order not to only accommodate the NOW but also the upcoming BIG launches of the next Call of Duty and the PS4 version of GTA V. Then you have the mass of new players who will be switching on at Christmas and the other festivities. Going to be an interesting and important couple of months for Sony that's for sure.

[Paladin Skylark]

Sad that such a promising game has had such a tank of a release.

[Ryzza5]

Really feel for those devs, makes you wonder what the "real" issue is (and not the PR one). Maybe selling way more PS4 consoles than expected had something to do with it. Maybe unoptimised network code (surely that would be discovered/fixed by now), or internal politics at Sony over who has to pay for additional servers/hosting (you'd think Sony would step in to protect their brand reputation but sometimes the bigger the beast, the more red tape there is. By the time a game is released the dev studios have often pretty much exhausted their entire budget, and so either need to generate income (sales) or get loans.)