Ever since the release of Driveclub earlier this month, Evolution Studios and Sony have had a wealth of issues on their hands. Caused by server problems at the start, Driveclub was almost unusable online, which led to the decision to temporarily push back the PS Plus Edition of the game. Now, it sounds like we may not be seeing that version for quite awhile.
On the official Facebook page for the game, Shuhei Yoshida, the president of World Wide Studios, posted the following message less than an hour ago.
Hi everyone,
I wanted to provide you with the latest update on DRIVECLUB. 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.
We have been listening to your feedback and realize 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 will continue to update you on progress and you can find the latest info on the DRIVECLUB Facebook page.
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 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.
On behalf of WWS we are enormously grateful for your patience and we thank you for the continued support and encouragement. Again, we sincerely apologize for the delay. We are committed to giving you the best racing experience on PS4 – it’s taking a little longer than we hoped.
Thanks,
Shu
Hopefully the “further notice” is a pessimistic view, but this obviously makes it sound like PS Plus subscribers will not be getting Driveclub PS Plus Edition for a long time. At this point, the only way anybody is going to be playing anything Driveclub will be to purchase the full game.
