Every few days the developer is working on updates and adding increased server capacity but Evolution still has a lot left to work on. In the latest update from on the DriveClub Facebook page, the developer revealed that more servers were set to come online within the next 24 hours, in addition to a diagnostics test that’ll take place around the same time.
What, exactly, they’re searching for wasn’t detailed, but it’s probably safe to suspect that it’s related to performance, overall player activity, and just seeing if anything else is causing problems. Since the server additions will supposedly improve the game’s performance and tweak online multiplayer races and leaderboards, it’s definitely in Evolution’s best interest to keep on eye on what’s going on with the game mid-update. The last thing that team needs are more issues with a game that’s been delayed several times.
That said, it may be a little while before we can move on and look to the game’s future.
As said before, the trimmed down PS Plus Edition of DriveClub is still M.I.A, and we won’t see it released while the full game is still getting post-launch updates to get its online services working. Another version of the game would only cause more problems, and possibly create new challenges: if the servers for DriveClub proper have yet to provide near perfect performances, an additional version would only impact the performance even further, and then we’d be reading about updates dealing with that and the ensuing rage in the Facebook comments from paying customers who still don’t have the promised functioning product they purchased.
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Evolution appears to be committed and focused on improving DriveClub while keeping their fans up-to-date. Hopefully the game’s problems will be solved sooner rather than later, and the people that have kept their interest this long get a great game out of it. More importantly, we hope Evolution and Sony avoid this sort of launch failure in the future.
Source: Evolution Studios
