"I am disappoint"

You know that things have turned sour with your game when Shuhei Yoshida, the president of Sony Worldwide Studios, has to provide an update on it. This is the second time that PlayStation’s most popular executive has had to comment on the state of DriveClub, but considering that three weeks have passed with the most minimal of progress made to the title's online performance, it’s probably about time.

Unfortunately, this news isn’t good for those of you that purchased the PlayStation 4 exclusive racer – or were looking forward to the PlayStation Plus version. We’ll let the big man do the talking. “Unfortunately, the road to launch has been a little rocky, and we are truly sorry that so many of you have not been able to enjoy everything that we had hoped DriveClub would deliver,” he said.

“We have been listening to your feedback, and realise that patience, understandably, is running out. Evo is working around the clock to close the gap, and we have deployed additional engineering resources to help resolve the remaining issues as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the time frames required to roll out the fully connected experience will be longer than anticipated, and we do not have an exact time frame for when they will be resolved.

“We are also very conscious that we have disappointed so many of you who were looking forward to playing the promised PS Plus Edition. Our first priority is to provide you with the best possible experience while playing DriveClub. With the high volume of new players, and additional server load that the PS Plus Edition is anticipated to bring, we are currently not confident that we can guarantee the best online experience. Until we can ensure that everyone can enjoy the full social connected online experience, we will be postponing the release of the PS Plus Edition until further notice.”

A clearly embarrassed Yoshida concluded with an apology. “On behalf of Worldwide Studios, we are enormously grateful for your patience, and we thank you for the continued support and encouragement. Again, we sincerely apologise for the delay. We are committed to giving you the best racing experience on PS4 – it’s taking a little longer than we hoped.”

Ouch.

[source facebook.com]