Lame excuse. You have no problem selling the retail version since launch lol.

Don't really get it,  they did great stuff with WRC...

Yeah, it must be a fundamental design flaw. They way things load it seems to explode in communication requests. When a leaderboard or face off loads you get everything in little bits. First the times and score, then the name, then the club name and icons, all appearing seperately for every line in the leaderboard, instead of 1 request returning everything in one chunk. Plus every race you start requests leader boards, score to beat for your car, ghost data and multiple face-offs, which reset everytime you restart. With instant restarts, 15 sec loading times, and events that range from 4 minutes to only 15 seconds, that's a lot of requests. Ironically if everyone would be playing online multiplayer races it would lighten the server load a lot.

It reminds of a project we did a long time ago. A new hire was set on making a data processing engine to handle large databases. He did it according to text book c++ design using the mfc library. Worked perfectly on test databases, very neat readable and modular code as well. When it was time to put the real database to the test performance botched down to estimated completetion times of weeks instead of hours, no matter what server rack was running the code. It took a big low level c rewrite of all the cricitcal parts to speed it up 100 to 1000 fold.

And now they're in the woods with a huge unresponsive database with all the times and ghost data since launch. I'm glad I'm not working there :)

Blood Lust? No blood lust. I dont want evolution studios closed down because of this. 

And rightfully so sony should be accused of it. Theyre quite comfortable selling this game to people, but not willing to back their promises. I remember a lot of people on this forum saying it was ok that PS+ was going to be mandatory because "look at the free games, we're getting driveclub for free at launch".

I understand shit happens and obviously something has gone horrbily wrong during the process of making this game, but it was obviously rushed to market and it annoys me that if this was another company we wouldnt be hearing the end of it....

On the other hand, we have all those other fabulous PS+ games to look forward to in November

Overall, Sony has handled the PS4's first couple years pretty poorly. I hope Sony realizes the PS4 is selling well in spite of how they're handling it and not because of the way they're handling it.

Hopefully, as big games start to materialize, in 2015 things change.

It really is a shame they ran into these issues, as the game is solid as an arcade racer. Me and my club members are having a blast with it and when the online portions work, the game gets even better.

I hope they get another opportunity to relaunch it as the game really deserves a second chance.

As for the Ps+ gamers who have to wait, I feel bad for them and I was one if them, but I took the plunge anyway and got it and I'm one of the many that doesn't regret it. The sense of speed along with the crazy amount t of detail, genius track design and perfect balance of arcade and sim make this game highly addictive.

Lol, that must be an artistic creation made by Google Translate or (gosh) Bing translating the French idiom "bel et bien" in the original article.  http://www.wordreference.com/fren/bel%20et%20bien 

Yeah from what I  see the driving aspect is indeed brilliant. I don't care much about all the club stuff, a meaty career mode and the regular online races are all I need. Hopefully the game will be fixed before it is too late.

i have already in this thread with all the driveclub http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=191410&page=11