To be fair though, Titanfall was 3rd party. This is a high profile first party supposed launch title, hell it was on my to buy list on launch. Given the issues now, I'm really glad they didn't even attempt to release at launch but, with all the priviledged access first party studios have, it really really should have been much better than this.

Oh stop it.

It's funny how people claim Sony gets a pass for this mess in a thread that's nothing but, close down the studio, give everyone a refund, public apology, there will never be a sequel. And that's even mild compared to http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-10-30-sony-postpones-driveclub-ps-plus-edition

The server code is a mess. It's obvious they didn't do a real stress test simulating a million concurrent users or it would have been obvious that the code couldn't handle that. A closed beta / 10.000 user stress test for a game that accesses online for every race, up and downloading ghosts, face-offs and leader boards, with a free ps+ version planned, ridiculous. Whoever made that decision should definitely be fired.

I'm looking forward to the extra content regardless. The challenges will arrive eventually. For now the hyper cars are just so much fun to drive. Damn that reverse 2nd Scottish track, lots of dangerous air time.

Not sure why they couldn't just give the PS+ version with online disabled.

Anyways, this whole Driveclub launch has been a total disaster.

Stop giving Sony a pass, man

In what way is it 'free'? Do you consider movies or TV shows you watch on netflix free? Probably not. You are paying for a service and this is part of the service.

There are loosing marketshares at sight. Forza and The Crew will be big.

I read your qoutes as literal, that's usually what double quotes stand for. Direct quote as opposed to a concept with single quotes. But it's not a hard rule by any means. We were actually meaning the same thing LOL. I appreciate the feed back. 

Fancy having the nerve to call it a beautiful mistake.
it sounds like it more systemic than just a coding error by the gradual approach to fixing it that they have adopted..

Indeed. The interview explains it's not a problem of server infrastructure, but of the game SW itself. It's not very specific beyond that, though, I'm curious about what kind of error it could be. That exec made it clear it's not a trivial one, so maybe they botched the whole design of the communication scheme between clients and servers, so flooding the latter, when the number of players increase, with too many data, maybe also fragmented in too many small packets.