Whats the chance the whole Drive Club PS+ Edition was just to get racing fans pre-ordering a PS4 instead of a XB1...
Unlikely
What really gets me is that it was never going to be anything more than an extended demo... You would still have to shell out more money to get the full game and season pass if you wanted that.
Meanwhile, there have been multiple opportunities to get the game and season pass for less than the price of an annual ps+ sub.
Yep, I agree. If people are looking forward to DRIVECLUB PS+ Edition, because the game appeals to them, isn't it likely that they'll like the full version and consider it worth their money? I think so, personally.
TWICE I have subscribed to PS+ to get this (once when it was announced at E3 2013, again a year later after the delay), and I still don't have it, just the same "information will follow soon" line they have recycled for hundreds of days now.
Just curious, assuming you subscribed for PS+ just for DRIVECLUB PS+ Edition and didn't care for any of the other PS+ perks. Was SCE willing the refund the PS+ subscription if you asked for a refund?
I am quite certainly mind-blowned by the revelation that customers asking for what has been promised by a developer/publisher is something that many seem to find aggravating/wrong.
Well like I've said, the developer/publisher is not in debt; they don't owe the potential consumers something unless people paid money for it in advance already especially if they refuse to refund the money.
This isn't the case here. We aren't talking about a commidity, but about an optional entertainment product that was F2P above all.
So it's an inconvenience, but I don't think there's a drama necessary to be made about it.
Every time the subject of "What happened to DriveClub PS+ Edition?" is brought up, someone always gives this excuse. "Well, they can't release it, because that would open the floodgates for bunch more new users, which would undoubtedly ruin the whole game for everyone else."
How come no one ever makes this excuse for any other major game from a major publisher? Games like Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto, Borderlands, Far Cry, Destiny...ahem, Need for Speed, Forza...they all hit the shelves, and such a collapse of the online component just never seems to be a concern for those games.
Sorry, but I really don't understand the comparison there. Could you clarify and elaborate? Thanks in advance.
Oh god there's that word again. How dare I feel entitled to something they promised.
Many people are curious but don't want to drop any money on it until they can try it. Many people just aren't going to buy when they were promised a free version. It's part curiosity and interest, and yes part principle. They didn't deliver what they promised and until they do people have every right to whine about it.
I think it's quite silly to make a melodrama about the delay of a bare-bones F2P version for which no money has been transactioned. Delays happen.
I mean, it really isn't much different than a publisher delaying a F2P game that's in development. The publisher "promised" a release date, but delayed the game and didn't deliver the game on that release date.
I think the word "promise" is also quite silly in this context. They are just targeting a release date for a commercial entertainment consumer good. It's how the free trade market works. It isn't about person-to-person loyalty or politics and making "promises" and delivering on that. You're a consumer, either the company offering the product that the company is advertising fullfills the advertised "promises" and you buy the product. Or the product doesn't fullfill the "promises", and you don't buy the product. And that's it.
This has gone on way too long without any transparency as far as what is really going on regarding the PS+ edition that was promised as a PS+ perk at the PS4 reveal, then delayed a year along with the launch.
No, it was announced at E3 2013, not at the PS4 reveal.
There's been enough transparency I think? I'm not sure what more you'd want, since technical details about the software engineering are irrelevant for 99,99% of the consumers and is something that understandable can be kept behind the scenes; not something that is owed.
Sheeesh, Amir0x take it easy, you of all people should know they have cleared the channel more than enough times to get the point around. Just look at Paul Rustchynsky replying to people everyday on his twitter saying PS+ Edition it is still coming. Their facebook updates that say they are continually improving servers to prepare for PS+ Edition, 3 Executives apologizing for DriveClub launch (Shu, Jim and Shaun). Paul coming here to Neogaf to clear the air too.
You posting those links when articles always take everything out of context from one another when stuff like that always happens
for example the last guardian hiatus
If they made a promise they will stick to it, promises don't have expiration dates even if it takes 5 years and they deliver. Are you really gonna complain about it for the next half decade?
Exactly, I agree.
