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Posted about an hour ago on the Driveclub facebook page;

Hi Everyone,

With DRIVECLUB, we are dedicated to delivering a dynamic and socially connected racing game that everyone can enjoy, and along the way we're facing new challenges which we haven’t encountered as a development team before. We are seeing a lot of activity and new social behaviours right now, but unfortunately this is pushing the servers to their absolute limits.

We are sorry if you are having a hard time getting online as we know many of you are. Please be aware that the game will automatically keep trying to connect you. Once you're online, you should have no further problems during your session.

Everyone at the studio is now working hard to get new updates ready for the game servers to improve connectivity. We will be rolling out these updates day by day and will keep you informed.

In order to help all DRIVECLUB players who have the game already, we're temporarily holding back the PS Plus Edition and the My DRIVECLUB app to ease the load and traffic to the servers. This should give players a better chance of connecting to the game servers and, once the servers are operating well, we’ll be sure to let you know when the PS Plus Edition and My DRIVECLUB app will be available to download.

To our PS Plus fans, we're sorry you're having to wait longer to play, but we want to ensure that when you come on board, you get the best experience possible. Rest assured, if you've pre-ordered the full game upgrade from the PS Plus Edition, you will still get the full version of DRIVECLUB digitally, and if you can't get online you'll be able to get started offline like everybody else with single player mode as you start your DRIVECLUB tour. You’ll still be able to earn fame, unlock cars and get to grips with all of the options for playing and creating your own events and challenges - and everything you do will be synchronised with the servers when you do get connected, so you can set-up a bunch of challenges to send out to your friends as soon as you are able to join each other online.

We fully appreciate how frustrating this is for everyone. We want you to get online with your club because racing, challenging and having fun together is what the game is all about. We know that racing with your friends online is what you’ve been waiting for and we are doing everything we can to deliver that experience to you as soon as possible.

Sorry again for the difficult start. We’ll keep you regularly updated on our progress as we work round the clock to improve connectivity. We want everyone to know what's happening so please tag your DRIVECLUB friends or SHARE this message to let them know.

- Rushy
 
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You might love it though!

And as for a lack of rewind? Lol. Drive properly in the first place! Made me laugh when it was included in Forza which is supposed to be a sim. I don't ever recall drivers being able to "rewind" after a crash in real life! (Just ask Bianchi)

I just listed all points, I am not fussed by a rewind feature, I don't use it, I just kept the list complete.
 
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On first week of it going coming out? iirc black ops 2 was laggy as hell

Well, everyone seemed to download a complete game of Forza and Online was working as should from day one. And that was for a complete game, not one half baked with weather effects maybe coming later. More cars etc.
 
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You might love it though!

And as for a lack of rewind? Lol. Drive properly in the first place! Made me laugh when it was included in Forza which is supposed to be a sim. I don't ever recall drivers being able to "rewind" after a crash in real life! (Just ask Bianchi)

But putting two wheels off the tarmac and being penalised is more realistic?
 
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It's an arcade racer and nothing more. So penalties for going off the track is fine by me.

The sentence literally contradicts itself.

An arcade racer, but one that penalises you for "slightly" and we are talking slightly, going off track...that...that sounds like something a Sim would have.
 
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Is it a regular thing though? , can't say In all the videos I have seen that timers and penaltys show up for the slightest errors.

Every video I have seen unless a trailer one with drivers having them picking up points against them for going off the course, havn't seen ONE corner without AI incident.
 
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I think the Ai ramming into you and causing you penaltys like a 3 second slow down would annoy me more. Stupid system that and hopefully it will be patched out.
 
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I will wait until Friday when I can actually play the game, review websites !!!!! And comments people are posting although they have never played Drive club ? If it turns out to bad for some people then go onto your next game ! ☺
 
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What were they doing for almost an extra year?

Im thinking now it would have hurt it more for having Forza out maybe, and lets face it it must have been in a real mess back then.

So we got no new cars, blandish game play, and a weather system that not available day one, and might be available around Christmas time, to which their will be more better games to play.

Its done it no favours with FH2 doing so well.
 
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