Gran Turismo 7 is still offline. Players do not have access to almost all production and complain about the studio's decisions

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Polyphony Digital has been working intensively for several hours to fix the operation of Gran Turismo 7. The developers have shut down the servers, as a result of which IP fans have lost access to a significant part of the title. The update was met with unfavorable reception from users, and the criticism was aggravated by the emerging problems.

Even before the premiere of the latest installment of the treasured racing under the Gran Turismo banner, some of the community turned their noses at the news that most of the content was blocked behind the servers. We did not have to wait long for real problems to occur, because almost the entire content of the production has not been checked for several hours .

Since yesterday, we have not been able to learn about campaigns, buy new cars, improve machines or participate in challenges. All major modes are unavailable.

Developers apologized and announced work on the update, but players do not hide their frustration. With a decision made a few months ago regarding the requirement for permanent access to PlayStation infrastructure, the experience is completely distorted.

The players are plagued by the game’s problems, the studio’s decision to limit the acquisition of credits and thus collecting cars only deepens the negative atmosphere:

Great timing to receive my copy yesterday, just to have an entirely shitty day with no time to play it until 4am, find out its in maintenance. Wait until 5am (now an hour late) before I just give up. Wake up 6 hours later and still in maintenance? All features gone. Unacceptable.
— Vietzomb (@vietzomb) March 17, 2022

Surely this shouldn't happen? How can I not use single player functionality, because the severs are down, am sorry if is sound horrible but I paid for a game which functions without Internet not only with the Internet pic.twitter.com/BsbLRhJJWz
— Josh Lee (@IamThatGuyMedia) March 17, 2022

Holy crap, instead of buffing earning credits you guys nerf it. The whole point of gran turismo is collecting cars. Now its collecting one car every few days to weeks. Talk about being tone deaf. 80 euros for this behaviour? Yeah no thanks I'll be selling the game.
— Sam (@DynamisJack) March 17, 2022

So, let me get this straight. This is a AAA game, that people have paid upwards of £70 for, but you're reducing the race rewards to encourage people towards MTX in order to be able to afford to collect the artificially scarce cars which are already in the game they just paid for?
— Factor41 Games (@Factor41Games) March 17, 2022

You can find many more similar messages on Gran Turismo’s Twitter post. Customers react very lively to two decisions that bring disastrous results – one made before the premiere and the other after the debut.

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