So it goes that one of the PS4’s heavy hitters – a stunning racer revealed alongside the system itself – goes out with a whimper. Soon all that will be left are a few unattainable trophies and memories.
It pisses me off seriously. I don't care how this sounds. I would love to beat the living daylights out of whoever is responsible for axing this game. It truly truly pisses me off.
It's Sony's policy to discontinue games after a period of time especially if there online games. MS doesn't do this and I don't think Nintendo has tried to do it. You pay for PSN but, Sony never changed this policy!
Violence is never the answer for a video game being shuttered. It was dead. Nobody was playing it. If you wanna beat someone over that, you need therapy.
@WiiU-Dube, @Kumakai It's unbelievable that the person who claims that he would resort to physical violence gets more likes and less disagrees than the one who states violence is not the answer. Really says quite a lot about the caliber of people who take the time to leave feedback / comments on this site.
Sometimes i believe this site is made up of mostly immature teenagers or young adults who don't know how life works and have no life experience outside of moms house... just a thought... .. .
Calm yourselves. Hyperbole. (Clearly I hadn't taken my meds yet...again jk) Yet it does piss me off. It is incredibly frustrating being powerless to stop a move such as this. It was the most gorgeous racing experience ever and poof gone. Sad. While I'm glad to be able to still play it, I would have loved more tracks, a PS5 version, but no. Sigh.
It does suck but to be fair EA turn FIFA’s off in about 3 years 4 max. Drive club done 7 years now and doubt it made a fraction of what fifa does each year.
Yeah. Game is still really good. It's disappointing that they're closing the servers. Game is still playable, and I've long abandoned trying to care about the challenges that were in the SP content, so at least the game is still playable. But I keep thinking how when I play it I'm going to feel regret that I never tried to get those trophies that required the servers, so I can't get the plat.
DriveClub VR is awesome, and the first time where I really felt like I was driving the car, because I can actually tell where the car is on the track, and in relation to other cars or corners, which makes the AI less annoying since I don't screw up as much. Bikes is a lot of fun, especially on the narrower tracks when compared to driving cars on it. And the base game still has some great track design.
I've played the game religiously for over a year after its launch and got the Platinum for both the base game and the Bike expansions and 100% all the DLCs. it's the game that cemented my interest in racing games. I am playing GT Sports now but DC will always be special to me.
I don't think this is all Sony's fault. The game shipped a year late. When it arrived the online component was completely broken for the first month. You can't blame the publisher for that. Simply put, evolution did not deliver.
@glennhkboy Las time I checked Forza Horizon 3 did not ship on PS4 and DriveClub did not ship on XBO. You can't compete if you aren't on the same platforms. And the only reason they shipped at similar timeframes was Evolution's inability to get the game ready for its original launch a year earlier.
While I do agree it sucks that Evolution got closed, one has to look at how Sony was financially at the time they closed the studio. They were trimming a lot of costs, and selling off assets. Their rating was being downgraded, and for the time, they were having to show they could operate more efficiently in order to bring that rating back up, and restore investor confidence. They had too many burdens on the company, and while the gaming division was doing alright, and looked bright due to the success of the PS4 early on, they still had to cut everything they could.
It was purely a business decision, and at the time, the studio wasn't performing in terms of revenue. What was supposed to be a big game for Sony, one that likely they didn't release GT6 on PS4 because they wanted it to have it's spotlight, ended up DOA, and heavily discounted almost right away. Turned out to be a great game once they got the online working, and even the offline content was good at launch, and it got really good after the first big patch which added weather, but it wasn't the huge success they were really wanting.
Evolution was a victim of circumstance, and it does suck. But any business facing similar cuts to their operations would have probably made the same decision.
Sony treated them good. They allowed them an extra year of development, had a horrendous launch, the psplus version was delayed and still allowed them to create extra content and work on vr
Driveclub will go down as one of my favourites this gen too. I'll admit I'm not huge into racing games but Driveclub hooked me like no racer has. Prior to that my favourite racing game was Motorstorm which also happened to be Evolution studios so I was devastated with the closure. Add in the Bikes for DC and that just topped it all for me. Glad I have the Plat in both now before its end.
DC Vr made me physically sick though
Forza Horizon 3 is my next favourite and I've heard Grid works as a the next best DC alternative so i might pick that up soon
Never got into the whole club aspect of the game just enjoyed the single player experience immensely, the cars were amazing the bikes were amazing and the graphics are still on a level that hasn't been touched. Fond memories for sure.
I was in a club, but no one ever did much in it. Just some people that joined, probably to get the related trophies. Been in the same club since near the beginning, and when I play from time to time, most people are just those that joined back then, and eventually stopped playing.
I suppose it might have been better if I joined a more active club, but I didn't really care about any of that in the first place.
From what I remember it only really unlocked a couple cars for you to use, a d some finals skins for your car, cant remember any more benefits to it to be honest. It's a shame its gotta close, but I understand why, more than got my money's worth though, still sad.
Wasn't really much to be honest. I think with an active club it may have been more fun when it comes to challenges, as it does add in club level challenges. The people in my club were never really active after a while, and we weren't social with one another. Think past the initial invite, I never had any communication with any of them outside a random challenge sent once in a while.
I was (still am technically) in a club and it was quite active thanks to about 4 of us. A couple of others didn't contribute much. I remember doing a lot of drift challenges, and religiously going back if my top score was beaten. It got really tense when the deadline for the challenge was near. Good times.
Im still in my original club, like you, never spoke to one of them lol, Yeah I'm probably going to miss the on track challenges the most, kept the races entertaining and competitive, was a great idea.
The Club challenges were a huge part of the drive to play the game for me. I loved logging in and beating friends times and challenges. Even their corners, Drifts, speed traps.
I still played it up to now so I'm really going to miss it
I know early on some of the club challenges, like complete a certain number of races in a time frame, were pretty good. I did incentivize me a bit I suppose. But after the rest of the crew I was in wasn't playing much, and never at the same time as me, I stopped caring. But I stopped caring about a lot of the challenges within the game. I left them on to get the extra fame, but I'm not that fussed if they aren't there. The driving experience alone is enough for me, especially in the VR version of the game.
I don't remember Sony has the license on 30fps closed-circuit racer genre and nobody else is doing this. anybody is allowed to try but to be able to hold that graphic crown for the whole gen is truly something.
Why would forza drop to 30fps just to enhance weather? Why would Forza horizon take away open world for weather effects. Those games already have great weather. Not drive club weather but they run better and play better and that’s why they aren’t shut down. If forza or project cars or any other racer wanted to achieve those weather effects they most certainly could at the risk of dumbing down their product overalll.
It's a shame that Sony isn't supporting this game anymore.
Took a long while for it to come into the game fully so they should have least went the extra mile a little more for it. But I guess with GT being the poster child for Sony's racing games, it makes sense that they cut this game loose.
Extra mile how? They released tons of additional content for the game after it released. I don't think any racing game has matched it to date. They even made a bikes and VR version of the game.
GT:S, and none of the Forza's have released anywhere near as much additional content after the base game as DC has gotten since launch. Even if you exclude the PS+ free version to full game content, DC has something like 30 additional tour packs added to it, and each tour has new cars, new tracks, and new campaigns to complete. They also released Bikes and a VR version. HDR patch would be nice sure, but the game is still one of the best looking racers out there, beating GT and Forza in most areas.
Driveclub was released and heavily criticised for being extremely bare bones, so it's funny to see you try and even boast about "extra" content for it.
Most of that "Content" that should have been in the game from the very beginning.
Especially even funnier that both GT and Forza (Horizon) are still being supported with content and this game isn't.
So yes, the extra mile would have been nice for one of the only other driving games from Sony for the PS4.
The main complaint was the online modes not working, there was plenty of content to keep people going untill the first dlc released, infact most reviews didnt mention having an issue with the content, some even saying it had plenty to keep you going, which it did.
The extra content you say should have been in the game was always planned as dlc, they even released a schedule for it🤷♂️ cars, tracks and events, all planned out, then a vr mode and bikes on top of that, that's support, like it or not.
You mention gt and horizion getting support still, which is great but driveclub is 3 and 4 years older than those games... how long do you expect games to get content for?
Also I'd like to hear your thoughts on forza motorsport 7 not getting any updates or content since august 19? It's only 2 and a bit years old, surly if you feel this strongly about driveclub support and content, motorsport 7 must be making your blood boil.
It wasn't bare bones. It had a PS+ "free" version, which wasn't robust, but had enough content to play a good amount. The full game had about as much as GT6 had a year before.
The heavy criticism wasn't that it was bare bones, it's that the online didn't work. In fact, the reviews before the release were overall very positive, and the reviews got changed after release because of the online issues.
Yes, Sony could have kept supporting the game, but to act like they didn't already give it tons of content is just not right. Maybe if you played it, you'd actually know what it has to offer. I've played GT:S, a couple of the recent Forza games, and DriveClub, and DC has by far had the most support in both additional content, and additional games to buy, which all tied in together into a single package....outside DC:VR which was it's own product.
@Rainslacker "...they didn't already give it tons of content is just not right."
This was originally your argument Rainslacker, not mine. I merely said extra mile with more support, like keeping the servers up, 4k patch and HDR.
Then you go off on the usual tangent of "no extra content" which now you're completely focused on as if that was my original point. And yes, part of the criticism was the content at launch that did get released through DLC later, let's not re-write history here.
"Maybe if you played it, you'd actually know what it has to offer."
Too late now seeing as the servers are being shut down don't ya think...maybe if Sony went that extra mile I would give it another shot.
Yeah, it's still all playable in SP. About the only thing you'll not have is the challenges, which would be cornering, drift, speed, and one other I can't remember. You also won't be able to get the online related trophies.
Outside the actual online races, the game was essentially a SP game, with some online elements added in. The club is nice for some bonus skins, but all other content is still available. I assume that once they shut down the servers, that you won't be able to access your club menu.
Awesome game with amazing graphics and weather effects. Really enjoyed it. Hopefully there's another one. I played it every day for about 6 months straight. I ended up with 124/125 trophies lol. The last one I tried but I was burned out and gave up. I'll be waiting patiently for Driveclub 2 or another motorstorm.
Really wish we could’ve got a PS4 Pro parch or even Driveclub 2 on PS5. It was a less serious and fun racing game which I really enjoyed.
Probably my favourite game this gen, and very disappointed about how Sony has treated this game and the studio behind it ...
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Never got into the whole club aspect of the game just enjoyed the single player experience immensely, the cars were amazing the bikes were amazing and the graphics are still on a level that hasn't been touched. Fond memories for sure.
No racing game has yet matched the look and feel of the weather in Driveclub, but maybe this next gen they will.