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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.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday October 19 2017, @03:37PM (1 child)
Then, stop buying those kinds of games. Usually there's tell tale signs, so you can avoid them. You know, like Loot Crates, sure some are somewhat reasonable regarding it, but lets just call it what it is. A Cash Grab. There's always GOG, which is a centralized online repository of games, that have reasonable prices, and are DRM free. Sure, there's GWENT, but you kind of know what you're getting into with that kind of game.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Thursday October 19 2017, @07:35PM
Ugh that's kinda my point, the marketing is a bit unfair. So how much does it REALLY cost to play Gran Turismo with all the required unlocking and extra payments? If its only $100 ... maybe worth it? $400? I am so not playing that game.
Pay to play is just a form of confuse-opoly to screw the customer so some customers, even those who might be happy with the price, won't play.
For many years I didn't have cable because I was a poor student just starting out in life and no one would tell me the price. Well it depends on franchise fees and taxes vs municipalities so its useless to ask my girlfriend or her family and useless to ask my coworkers each of whom have a different bill and all marketing wants to scream about is first month free so the cost is $0 or its $30 but only for the first year then the price goes up to a number we won't tell you. In the end by the time I had enough money not to care how much it costs, I had no interest anymore in TV...
I've found the hard way over a couple decades starting with Atari 2600 and TRS-80 computers that cost has little correlation with how much I like the game and how many hours of fun I'll have.