Gran Turismo 5 removing all DLC ahead of shutting down the game's online service

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Xen on 23 February 2014

adriane23 said:
Small anecdote: I turned on Transformers: War for Cybertron the other day expecting the servers to be down. They were still up with 162 people playing online. 162! GT5 has thousands, so wtf PD!?

This is more "wtf, Sony", I fear.

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kupomogli said:
Not as bad as WKC2. Servers had a couple thousand people online everyday and the servers were shut down less than two years.

Sony announced they were shutting down servers from WKC1 because most everyone was on WKC2, but D3 Publisher, the ones who published WKC2, announced they were going to close servers the same time WKC1 closed.

Either way you look at it, it's bad for Sony, but D3 Publisher is worse.

Yeah, that pretty much killed my incentive to finish WKC. Half the game is basically gone.

What? Why? Why is the online component so important?

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I shouldve probably noted that i mean games that are popular. Whether it be Gears, GT, Minecraft, etc These games were popular and people stick around for years.

Right, many games and popular games are not the same thing.

With that said, most online communities games are dead well before three years.

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Azerth on 23 February 2014

Man gt6 must be selling really bad if there having to do all this to get people to buy gt6

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JOKA_ on 23 February 2014

The gamer in me: Well thats shitty. This game is a huge exclusive, the servers should not be shut down.

The business man in me: Well thats shitty. They should have waited until GT7 was available on PS4 so that people will buy a new system too :P

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Player2 on 23 February 2014

It's quite funny that Sony's plan to support the PS3 for 10 years doesn't include their biggest franchise.

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Goatseye on 23 February 2014

This is #4 the gamers right?
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Player2 said:

It's quite funny that Sony's plan to support the PS3 for 10 years doesn't include their biggest franchise.

They are supporting it! This is how they will push eeryone to the newest iteration.

Love the product, not the company. They love your money, not you.

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adriane23 on 23 February 2014

Wright said:

adriane23 said:

kupomogli said:
Not as bad as WKC2. Servers had a couple thousand people online everyday and the servers were shut down less than two years.

Sony announced they were shutting down servers from WKC1 because most everyone was on WKC2, but D3 Publisher, the ones who published WKC2, announced they were going to close servers the same time WKC1 closed.

Either way you look at it, it's bad for Sony, but D3 Publisher is worse.

Yeah, that pretty much killed my incentive to finish WKC. Half the game is basically gone.

What? Why? Why is the online component so important?

The online quests and user created towns. Me and my brothyer were planning to do all the online quests with our created companions, so that's basically out the window. The main game of WKC was extremely disappointing to me, and WKC2 is basically WKC1 in reverse with one extra town.

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