They gave them two chances where an independent studio would have been bankrupted by both but they let them stay open making DLC anyway.
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Reminder | DriveClub will be gone from PS Store on August 31st, 2019 Forever (update: now gone, they took it down early)
- Thread starter Fahdi
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Its not Evolutions fault for Sony's shitty practices. Motorstorm Apocolypse failed due to Sony's whole being hacked debacle and then the Tsunami that happened in Japan (basically bad timing) the month prior in 2011.
DC was promised by Sony to be free on PS Plus fucking Evo over for server load stress tests and launch dates.
Either way heres an article from Gamesradar:
Evolution studios did nothing wrong.
Yeah, Sony did Evolution dirty IMO. They're talented as fuck, and Motorstorm PS4 would have been a killer app. (Tales from my ass) Still, business is business.
Driveclub to me might be one of the purest racers I've enjoyed. It reminded me of playing MSR and PGR back in the day, just the pure bliss of driving and racing? Hard to explain. There was a lot of hysteria around the online problems, and I feel like they took the brunt of the toxicity that surrounds games these days.
What a shame.
Driveclub to me might be one of the purest racers I've enjoyed. It reminded me of playing MSR and PGR back in the day, just the pure bliss of driving and racing? Hard to explain. There was a lot of hysteria around the online problems, and I feel like they took the brunt of the toxicity that surrounds games these days.
What a shame.
Apocolypse failed mainly due to bad timing, yes, but it wasn't Sony's fault. The tsunami was unforeseeable and the hacking was unfortunate but the game was focused on offline content with online being an extra option. It's very unlikely more than a small percentage bought it solely for online racing. Also I doubt it would have done that well anyway seeing how Pacific Rift sold poorly.
I loved those games but I just don't think they did poorly for any reason other than the racing genre isn't popular in general anymore.
Really sad to see this game go and everything that happened to Evolution. I myself was quite upset with the game when it launched during the period where it's online was not working (I think it was 3-4 weeks?), but the game itself was always a damn fun with alot of tracks that were enjoyable to go through. Plus it has probably one of the greatest season passes and post launch contents of any game I've seen with how much they added.
BUY this game before it goes away if you have any interest in cars or racing games. It was a really good time and I'm sad to see it just taken off the store like this :(
BUY this game before it goes away if you have any interest in cars or racing games. It was a really good time and I'm sad to see it just taken off the store like this :(
If anyone is on the fence after all this time: this game is fucking excellent. The sense of speed in cockpit view is unparalleled and the graphics to this day still blow me away, particular in rain/snow.
Brilliant game by the end. I'm never going to not feel the sting of losing Evolution and Liverpool Studios. Their games were fantastic, even if they didn't set the sales charts on fire all the time.
This thread reminded me that I should play more driveclub (I just remembered I have it on disc).
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Thanks to this thread I now have the bikes add-on and the VR version.
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Thanks to this thread I now have the bikes add-on and the VR version.
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I suspect Driveclub already was their last chance, after several consecutive Motorstorm games sold in underwhelming amounts (partly through awful luck, in the case of Apocalypse).
But it's a great game ....that's a super weird thing to prioritise
And they then went on to create OnRush which bombed as well.
Doubt Sony has many regrets at this point in regards to them.
Regarding the content that isn't included in the season pass, i'll just quote myself from an earlier thread:
This plus the season pass will have you a 100% covered. Downloading everything will be a bit awkward, since it won't all come in a batch, the easiest method is filtering the DC content on the store by price and then just downloading all the free stuff.
True about the pro patch, but regarding the sub 1080p resolution, are you sure you aren't thinking of Driveclub VR?
Edit: nm, been clarified
Man, this still feels so bad. Final slap in the face for evolution. I think their only game still digitally available is motorstorm apocalypse
Probably because need for speed is not dead as an IP. Driveclub is. So licensing is not renewed. Easy as that
So licenses would be tied to the overall IP as opposed to individual games? I suppose that makes sense... but don't some NFS games have different car rosters?
Wait, so is the game/DLC only getting delisted? Or are the multiplayer severs coming down too, locking some trophies out?
I really enjoyed DriveClub, enough to get every trophy in the game. Original tracks plus phenomenal weather effects ftw. I should boot it up to check my Club level to see if I have those cars unlocked.
I haven't played it yet, but maybe Grid 2? It was free recently on Steam, and is currently on sale with all DLC.
I'm really not a fan of modern licensed racers at all, and didn't enjoy the Plus demo thing of Driveclub they released back in the day, but something about the VR version really, really stuck with me in a way I just can't explain to this day. It was one of the most immersive and fun racing games I'd played in years - somehow. The physicality of it changed things to a degree that I suddenly got on with it in ways I can't with the likes of the regular version, or GT or Forza.
tell me about it, most people here would say the best new IP sony introduced last gen was The Last of Us,Uncharted or even Little Big Planet, well to me the best one was Motorstorm. Motorstormer for life here and if Motorstorm somehow managed to come back on the ps5 wow, that would be even bigger than God of War (my biggest reason to get a ps5 as of now)
Shit, I totally forgot about the club exclusive cars. And its very unlikely that it will be patched in before the servers goes down since Evo no longer exists...
RIP Pagani Zonda R :(
Edit: As much as I love this game, can't deny that the launch was really disastrous due to the server issues, it took like almost 1 month to fix it if I recall, and by then everyone sort of moved on already and the game never really recovered from the damage done. Post launch support afterwards have been amazing though, with the weather patch and the season pass which has so much value and content. Its a shame.
RIP Pagani Zonda R :(
Edit: As much as I love this game, can't deny that the launch was really disastrous due to the server issues, it took like almost 1 month to fix it if I recall, and by then everyone sort of moved on already and the game never really recovered from the damage done. Post launch support afterwards have been amazing though, with the weather patch and the season pass which has so much value and content. Its a shame.
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I'm almost certain there were improvements, resolution being one of them, but it's been a long time and I can't find anything conclusive from a quick search online. I don't think the demo ever received any support though.
If you have VR it's definitely worth owning given how few fully featured racing games there are on the platform.
Thanks for the reminder, OP. Grabbed all the DLC and I'm tempted to grab Driveclub VR even though I have no intention of getting a PSVR anytime soon.
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Be sure to download the DLC as well even though you purchased the season pass. If you don't then you might not be able to download them afterwards. (You can delete them later on but you gotta download them or "purchase" the "free dlc" for it to count).
In my opinion? DriveClub VR is terrible. The graphics are so degraded it's very difficult to see upcoming turns.
Play DiRT Rally VR or GT Sport VR if you want a good racing VR experience.
Should be. It shows here for me.
There's 2 options to buy bikes, one as stand-alone, one as upgrade to the standard DC. You might be looking at a version that shows non-purchasable because you do or do not own certain content.
Thanks. When I type it in search it leads me to unavailable links for some reason.
Guess I'll wait to see if they put it on sale before it expires.
Ah ok. Still weird since I own the base game and haven't bought Bikes yet.
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Wasn't this for a limited time?
Anyone wanna send me a general EU link that works for everyone or does that not exist for all 3 variants of DC?
Right the way PlayStation often does season passes is honestly tedious.
So once I buy the season pass and the expansions not included, I then go just download everything that's free?
They make it even more confusing with all the dozens of free individual cars. If I don't have to do that it'd be nice to not have a full page of my purchase history be driveclub if some of those cars are already in car packs lol.
Wait why would you not be able to? That's one of my favorite cars :O