Replace, 2:30 p.m., 3/18/22:
Gran Turismo 7 is again online after primarily being left unplayable for greater than 24 hours following an earlier replace.
In a brand new blog post, GT7 producer Kazunori Yamauchi explains why a upkeep interval that was anticipated to final a few hours lasted longer than a day. He mentioned that proper earlier than the discharge of the 1.07 replace, which is the one which left GT7 largely unplayable, Polyphony Digital “found a difficulty the place the sport wouldn't begin correctly in some instances on product variations for the PS4 and PS5.”
“This was a uncommon challenge that was not seen throughout checks on the event {hardware} or the QA periods previous to the discharge, however to be able to prioritize the security of the save information of the customers, we determined to interrupt the discharge of the 1.07 replace, and to make a 1.08 correctional replace. That's the reason for the delay. My honest apologies for the late report back to everybody.”
Yamauchi then addresses microtransactions in GT7. In replace 1.07, the variety of in-game credit earned for finishing some tracks and races within the sport was decreased, that means it might be more durable to buy vehicles. Some felt that this was to additional push the microtransactions within the sport, however Yamauchi says the group needs “customers to get pleasure from numerous vehicles and races even with out microtransactions.”
“On the similar time, the pricing of vehicles is a vital ingredient that conveys their worth and rarity, so I do assume it’s essential for it to be linked with the true world costs,” he continues. “I need to make GT7 a sport in which you'll get pleasure from a wide range of vehicles numerous other ways, and if attainable wish to attempt to keep away from a state of affairs the place a participant should mechanically hold replaying sure occasions time and again [players were using certain tracks to farm credits and those were the tracks targeted in the update].”
The weblog publish says the studio will let gamers know the replace plans for added content material, race occasions, and options to “constructively resolve this” challenge.
“It pains me that I can’t clarify the main points relating to this at this second, however we plan on persevering with to revise GT7 in order that as many gamers as attainable can benefit from the sport,” Yamauchi writes. “We'd actually recognize it if everybody may watch over the expansion of Gran Turismo 7 from a considerably long term perspective.”
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Authentic Story, 10:22 a.m., 3/18/22:
Ah, the age of always-online video games strikes once more – this time, with Gran Turismo 7.
Gran Turismo 7 requires a continuing web connection, that means in the event you can’t join online, you principally can’t play the sport, save for a number of modes like Music Rally. It’s unlucky however it’s a choice Polyphony Digital selected to make with the newest Gran Turismo installment nonetheless (they did the identical with GT Sport, too). The newest replace for the sport, Model 1.07, nonetheless, is casting a adverse mild on that call as a result of it has taken the sport offline, making it largely unplayable, for greater than 24 hours. That’s one other method of claiming this sport you spent cash on is a sport you may’t really get pleasure from in full in the meanwhile.
Gran Turismo 7 went offline on March 17 and it was solely presupposed to be down for a few hours, as reported by VG247. Nonetheless, a few hours stretched to a dozen. Now, here we're, a full day later. Most of Gran Turismo 7’s modes are nonetheless inaccessible as they stay offline.
A giant draw of Gran Turismo 7 is the flexibility to race towards different gamers. That’s not attainable in-game in the meanwhile as its online performance are nonetheless disabled. On high of that, Video Games Chronicle studies that this replace makes Gran Turismo 7 even grindier than earlier than in some methods.
That’s as a result of the programs that gamers used to farm in-game credit to buy vehicles considerably dearer in 7 than they have been in Sport now dole out much less credit.
We’ll make sure you replace this story when Gran Turismo 7’s online performance is restored.
For extra concerning the sport, learn Recreation Informer’s Gran Turismo 7 evaluate after which try what a number of the finest vehicles in Gran Turismo 7 would appear like if Kirby ate them. Examine Sony’s AI undertaking that outperforms skilled GT drivers after that.
[Source: VG247]
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