1st world problems. Really you are way way to worked up over something this damn trivial. Don't renew your plus subscription then. Contact Sony and voice your displeasure. But losing your fucking mind over a game that is delayed because its an inconvenience to you is absurd.

So it 's not enough that you made your point , but you have to keep regurgitating it , also your point about apologists is a little strange , you are anti people defending Sony but bagging Ms and since the reverse is true those that attack Sony but defend Ms are also in your sights so it seems you live in a nice little paradox world but that's what can happen when you generalize . then again maybe you're Ralph Nader of the video game world or simply against everyone .

Because its a hell of a lot easier, and it gets the point across, even if some have to save face. Even people who I beleived to be in control of their "preferences" have been quick to shout "Bias" as soon something becomes to conflicting with their views as if bias somehow renders the legitamacy of the question inert. 

Or maybe I don't like/approve of hypocrisy. 

There is nothing wrong with being anti hypocrisy , but it shouldn't be done by generalizing , but realising some peoples defence may be legit and examing whether or not their arguement holds up , rather than painting every one as apologists and lumping all practices together as if they all merit the same type of commdemnation  ,otherwise you end up looking like your against allsides.

The game is still fun, driving experience is near perfect. Online however is still slow to update leaderboards, ghosts, and it's full of corrupt face-offs now. Beat 11534 km/h average happens pretty much every race. I've completed most accolades, got a nice accolade bonus going in the club and am solidly in the top 200 overall.

It's time for extra content though after 80 hours. The scheduled free dlc for October (track+car) was also delayed. Dunno if that's going to push everything back or added to the November update. It seems they're doing a full rewrite of the server code and only basic maintenance on the current database. It's clear the server code had fundamental flaws and terrible bottlenecks. It still takes 5 minutes or more before a new best time of mine shows up in the leaderboards.

It might have worked fine in their 10k simulated stress test, but I hope they have learned their lesson and do a real beta test next time. How on earth did they think 10K simulated users would be representative of the load a free ps+ version would give, it can't even properly handle the average load of paid versions a month later.

I'm not generalizing everyone as apologists. I'm generalizing all sides as having apologists. All long as that is recognized, then it is fine, its not hypocritical. The fanbases being identical. Its also impossible to objectively weigh one action as worse then another because its effects inherently subjective to each observer. That necessitates equal treatment. 

You weigh them on their merits , not on the notion that both sides have apologists so that's my get out clause when it comes to looking at counter arguements.

Yikes. They now have to compensate players and also offer free refunds.

Yep still not fixed. I've even seen some recent reviews that were done that still only give the game a 7 because the multiplayer doesnt work properly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXURMZwgv5k