Yoshida: DriveClub: PS Plus Edition Delayed on PS4 Until Further Notice

No hope.

I hope there's something to compensate for this. This is just rediculous and sad.

@Reverandjames @get2sammyb
You've also scored the same as TLOU according to Polygon.

Topic: I'm sorry but I'm still not sure why it's being held back, can't they just put it up on the store as planned and um deal with it. The PS Plus edition is finished isn't it? But yeah there's no salvageable redemption at this point.

"We are committed to giving you the best racing experience on PS4 – it’s taking a little longer than we hoped.”

A "little longer"? Almost over a year now.

Release the executioner Kracken.
Because heads will roll at Evolution.
Sadly they will never evolve past this.

Please understand.

It isn't great for Sony leading up to Christmas to have a f*ck up like Drive Club...gamers are fickle folk and every mistake Sony makes is getting pounced on. It will surely tip some undecided consumers towards Microsoft, especially with the price reduction of the Xbox.
There are also the ongoing and at times over blown online issues Playstation have been suffering.
It would be perhaps time to bite the bullet and shove a bigger title onto PS+ and try to appease the masses...Knack/Killzone/thief/injustice surely can't be still shifting that many units and while they aren't a racing game it would help someways.

@rjejr Is that you Iwata?

I think Sony should do the honourable thing and give the whole game away for the PS+ version and give refunds to those that bought it. It will be a big loss but at least will return some faith into gamers that are losing it with Sony right now... This especially should happen when you consider the joke that PSN has been recently...

words are allright but actions like making november's ps + lineup all indie shows you don't care

@Jaz007 why do u need compensating? what impact has this game or the delay of the ps plus addition had that u require competition? I've paid for the game and completed it yes all the features were there but I don't feel I need compensating

@KAPADO

What you did there, I saw it!

@NEOTDS

Sony has basically lied to consumers.. .first they said Driveclub was going to be free for all PS+ subscribers at launch, then they delayed at least minute without giving anyone any idea when will the game release then months later they announce the game would be coming about a year after the original date and that what they would be given would be just a demo and not the full game (granted they never said before that they were gonna give the full game but they didn't say it was just a demo either) and then the week the PS+ edition was supposed to come out, nothing, and it took about a week for them to be even acknowledge the issue..... and next PS+ month comes with an all indie lineup not a single AAA or even mid tier title for any of the three platforms...... yah people have a right to be mad and Sony needs to do more than a verbal apology

@Jaz007 I'm sure they will eventually give out extra stuff to the people - but will it be soon enough to keep people. Not going to lie - I got a refund and i will rebuy the game when it works the way its advertised. I got a refund because I don't like paying full price (or PS+ price) to be beta testers. If you charge me full price the game better be fully playable and if not - in a respectable time frame. (examble - Diable 3 and GTA V were all playable consistently within the 1st week) So developers need to learn how to release games and don't deserve any money until they provide the product they sell. I really enjoyed playing Driveclub - its a huge disappointment about server issues. I hope they learned their lesson.

@Punished_Boss_84

https://twitter.com/kazhiraiceo/status/527915005191417856
Absolutely marvellous.

@DualWielding I completely agree with everything you just said. applauds

@Munkyknuts I was speaking to a mate at work today who's been on the fence for months. This tipped him to XB1. Granted Microsoft screwed up their initial announcement of XB1 but they've had no issues once they changed their stance. Driveclub, online issues (although minimal they are too frequent) & poor PS+ has hurt Sony bad.

There's a buy 2 get 1 free sale at Target coming up soon. I don't know what I will be getting besides NBA 2K15, but DriveClub won't be one of the games, not even if I were to count it as the "free" one. I don't know if I will even bother with the PS+ version when/if it ever sees the light of day.

At the very least, PlayStation, and hopefully the entire industry, will use this is a major learning moment.

Game should've just been scrapped, this whole thing is taking the p now, we should get some compensation.

You should get some compensation for a free game?

Come on.

I don't think anything nefarious is going on with sony as it pertains to driveclub. However, their press releases don't make any sense. Saying they want to hold the release back until they can provide the best possible experience doesn't jive. You already released a broken product, how much more damage is it going to do if all the ps+ people get the same broken offline experience. This makes it look like a scheme to sell the full version to people who are too impatient to wait for the ps+ version of the only first party non-rerelease of the year. I was contemplating buying the full version after trying out the ps+ version as I really enjoy racing games but after the way this was handled I will not purchase Driveclub on principle alone. Here's to hoping Gran Turismo 7 is out sooner rather than later.

This was the game i was always looking forward to the most since i got ps4.severely gutted about all this. Dont get me wrong its a fantasic game but the online issues are driving me insane.its a broken game at the moment,not doing half the things it supposed to.trying to get a race is torture.other than that,tickety boo

@DualWielding

Couldn't agree more.

does anyone still actually want the ps+ edition?

i couldn't care less anymore, i'd rather have another game instead.

If no one wants this game, hates it, has moved on, why so many people still talking about this crap?

The more this drags on the more I'm starting to feel people are on to something with getting a replacement free game. I mean, from launch the ps+ edition was supposed to be provided to every user with a + account. As time's gone by this has been put off again and again. Over a year down the line, with an indefinite delay and no clear end in sight, it would seem fairly reasonable to offer users another title for free, in lieu of the free game they were promised but never received. In the long run it would certainly be less costly for Sony, as there's no dev cost in offering a game that's already been made, and losing out on profit equal to the price of a game has got to be better than losing out due to someone buying an alternative console / switching sides. Not that the delay is Sony's fault, that falls on Evo, but at this stage Yoshida should really be giving this some serious consideration at this point, as a sort of crisis recovery plan.

Either way Evo have had it - a fledgling studio part-releasing a broken game, losing Sony money by them having to bring in their own engineers to help fix it, and even more money by potentially losing them system owners, is a studio that isn't going to last long...