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posted by martyb on Wednesday October 18 2017, @07:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the going-offline-is-NOT-the-same-as-going-off-roading dept.

On Tuesday, October 17, the long-awaited Gran Turismo Sport arrives for the Playstation 4. This seventh installment of one of the world's best-selling games franchises introduces a number of updates designed for high-end TVs, virtual reality, and e-sports enthusiasts. Although we've had a copy for a few days now, you'll have to wait a few more days to read a proper review.

In large part, that's because Sony's Gran Turismo Sport servers were down for the past few days. Since being connected to those servers is such an integral part of the game, there's very little left to do if you're offline.

But let's not pretend like we weren't warned. In a blog post last month, Sony revealed that "[i]n order to ensure fair racing for all, GT Sport will require an Internet connection for the majority of functionality. This connectivity requirement is to ensure that progress, car availability, and driver ratings are properly maintained at all times."

In other words, that game you bought is a thin client.


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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday October 19 2017, @02:25AM (2 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday October 19 2017, @02:25AM (#584332)

    Don't know about your house, but at mine we've got 3 big screens attached to computers - not full on gaming rigs, but little NUC units that are as powerful as full on gaming rigs from 10 years ago, plus 3 decent laptops. Plenty of multi-player LAN games from 10 years ago that we could setup and play on 6 screens were we so inclined... 4 in one room if that's your thing. Personally, I don't like playing Starcraft with my opponent able to look over at my screen.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday October 19 2017, @03:18PM (1 child)

    by Freeman (732) on Thursday October 19 2017, @03:18PM (#584580) Journal

    Might I suggest GOG. The reason why they even exist is, because of old games. The Acronym used to stand for Good Old Games, but I think they've phased that term out. Particularly, since they are adding new games too. DRM free titles, ability to archive your own collection offline, and they have a beta (last I checked) client that is similar to Steam. Except, you don't have to be logged in to use it, and the client is 100% optional. They also have some cross-platform multiplayer with Steam, and have given free access to some games you've purchased on Steam. There's also a few games that you get for free (permanently free games), just for signing up for an account. Sometimes I wonder, if my posts for GOG sound like commercials. I almost don't care, because they're so awesome. FYI, I'm just a very pleased customer. Who doesn't need to buy yet another copy of xyz game, because I lost the disk / it's in a box somewhere. Also, some of the games they have, weren't being sold anymore, and were really hard to get a reasonably priced copy. Oh, and they don't pull your copy from the store, because the publisher stopped selling it.

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    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday October 19 2017, @03:30PM

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday October 19 2017, @03:30PM (#584589)

      I've used GOG in the past, but I'm really pretty saturated with titles to play and not enough time to play them already.

      If I can find the time to keep up with my Hearthstone quests, I'm doing good - and that's got to be the lowest attention demand real-time two player game ever.

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