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Finally, a Release Date for Driveclub's Free PlayStation Plus Edition

Sony will be steadily rolling out online access, following launch.

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Driveclub's PlayStation Plus Edition will be available from Thursday, June 25, Sony has announced.

"We’ve spent a long time preparing for this launch after some difficult and unexpected set-backs," said Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony's worldwide studios.

"To make absolutely certain that all players have the smoothest and most stable experience possible we are going to be duly cautious about how we release the game this time around."

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PlayStation Plus members will be able to download the game and play it offline from Thursday. Sony will also begin rolling out online access and will "steadily bring more and more players online while continuously ensuring that all game systems are running smoothly."

"We know that this might be frustrating after the extra wait already," said Yoshida. [We] hope you can understand that we are taking extra precautions to protect your experience when you do get online. We want to make sure we don't overload the serbers as we invite millions of PS Plus members to download the game."

Driveclub and its accompanying PlayStation Plus Edition were originally slated to be out alongside the PS4 back in 2013. However, both versions were pushed back almost a full year, to October 2014.

When Driveclub was released, it launched with serious issues. Sony later announced the Plus Edition's would be postponed indefinitely.

Sony repeatedly insisted the free PlayStation Plus version hadn't been canceled and when developer Evolution Studios was hit with layoffs in March, Sony claimed it would "now focus on Driveclub as a service going forward, with the important launch of the PS Plus Edition."

Earlier this month, director Paul Rustchynsky said the Plus Edition was "in the final stages of development."

Provided you have a PlayStation Plus subscription, you can download Driveclub here.

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and waiting....and waiting....and waiting...so much for greatness.

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@penkowalski said:

and waiting....and waiting....and waiting...so much for greatness.

Greatness awaits..............

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Those serbers, I tell ya!

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I want now, my first racing game on the PS4.

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Wouldn't want to overload the "serbers".

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They make server stability look hard.

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I think this job might be getting to Tamoor, after looking at that pic lol.

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Gotta be mindful of the capacities of those "sebers", huh GameSpot? ;)

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I told you before the E3 that Sony will announce the PS+ version on Drive Club.
Now i need to play some lottery :-)

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@sladakrobot: You didn't tell me about it!! Then again, I already bought the game for only $20 dollars.

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@davillain-: I got it for $20 too. Gameplay is...okay, but it is one of the best looking racing games that I have ever seen.

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I wonder if this is timed to get people talking about the game again so they can announce a Driveclub 2.

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@sandman338: Evolution will be lucky if they are given ex dev status.

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@sandman338: there won't be a sequel on ps4. driveclub is designed to accumulate expansions and new cars within the same ecosystem. that is the type of business model they have in mind with this title... the next racing game to be announced will be gt7.

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A prime case of too little too late. This won't even convince most gamers to download it and have a look now. The only way they could have aroused any interest would have been to coincide it with a week where no titles of any note were to be released.

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@gotrekfabian: I don't like racing games and I'm still gonna download it

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@jose_consuela: That's fair enough, I understand why but chances are you won't play this for very long.

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@gotrekfabian said:

A prime case of too little too late. This won't even convince most gamers to download it and have a look now. The only way they could have aroused any interest would have been to coincide it with a week where no titles of any note were to be released.

most gamers with a PS4 and PS+ will download it I assure you

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@dino7c: I wish I could make a cash bet with you right now on that statement.

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@gotrekfabian: And the money goes to... Planetside 2 for taking all attention away from the "free" driveclub.

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@Supasang: And justifiably so. Planetside 2 is a great game and deserves to be the best free to play game out there. DriveClub is mediocre at best (good graphics having said that mind) and, as I said earlier in a roundabout way, has come to the party too late to make any impact.

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@gotrekfabian: Well that would be your loss or whoever else passes on the game. It's basically the spiritual successor to Project Gotham Racing and it's pretty awesome now that the games is patched. But you sound more interested in beating off in the corner anyway.

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@ohjtbehaaave: I have played this title before, albeit briefly, and, believe me, not playing it again will be a win.

As for 'beating off' gtfu already and debate with sensibility if you want to get any degree of merit from the other readers on site.

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@ohjtbehaaave said:

@gotrekfabian: Well that would be your loss or whoever else passes on the game. It's basically the spiritual successor to Project Gotham Racing and it's pretty awesome now that the games is patched. But you sound more interested in beating off in the corner anyway.

LOL You mean this game is the spiritual successor to Ridge Racer. In PGR you are free to drive anywhere youd like on the track. Why wont this game allow you to drive backwards on the track?

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@gotrekfabian: hahaha oh please its free so if you have psplus I am sure you and everybody else is going to download it

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@yukushi: Plenty of people don't download something just because it's free. Check out your friend list when you download the game and see how many people are playing this game. It will be minimal if any at all.

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@gotrekfabian: not everyone even has a ps4 yet... there are still tens of millions of consoles waiting to be sold and new players jumping into the playstation ecosystem every day. the early adopters are only a small part of the whole picture... not too little too late.

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@gotrekfabian: Free is free and i doubt most gamers would turn down the opportunity to install a free AAA title.

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@Slim_Lyrics: There will most likely be several million new players, im one of them btw but i bought the full version couple days ago for $20, and man i got to say, this is the best racing game i have ever played before.

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Already got the game for $20 dollars 3 Months ago [thank you coupon] and I can tell you that the game is now more stable from what they say at launch that it was broken and Driveclub weather is really cool so for those who waited for the PS+ freebie, I hope you'll enjoy Driveclub. Of course if you don't wanna download it, forget about the game.

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@cym_: Go away with your spam/harmful sites already

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@gotrekfabian: I saw them and Flag them all for Spamming.

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@davillain-: Likewise, I always report stuff like that. I looked into them (cym_) after reporting and saw that they had actually put the same thing up on 5 different topics as well.

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More like DRIVEFLOP!

Flopclub?

.....

i dunno.

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@ohjtbehaaave: I agree, the developers are braindead.

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@ohjtbehaaave: lol... like!

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@monkeypukefight: What's to like? He was being offensive to the poster, don't encourage this kind of imbecility.

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So, are they saying it's going to be a "long wait time" to actually connect to the game? Or, does this mean that you'll be allowed to play the game, however, when you want to go fully online then you may have to queue to do so?

I wish they would be clear about this. I would like to download the game, but if I'm going to sit at a queuing screen for hours just to connect and do stuff in a single-player manner, I'm not going to bother.

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@otterbee: you can play singleplayer immediatly, but it's going to take a few days or weeks even to connect everyone to the servers... that's what they meant... hope that clears it up for you.

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"we don't overload the serBers"

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@pezzott1 said:

"we don't overload the serBers"

Proof Reading doesn't exsist at Gamespot.

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@pezzott1 said:

"we don't overload the serBers"

I think gamespot is just great? Just top banter.

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Honestly when they delayed the game I would have just canned the game completely.....

game serves no function whatsoever, has no place among even the crap racers....car handling sucks, AI is bad, race rules suck, progression is terrible, customization sucks, for a game about car clubs the club system does nothing for the game, even compared to 16 bit racers this fracking game is terrible.....

for AAA racing this is one of the worst I've ever played...

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@MJ12-Conspiracy: I think it's pretty decent, not as good as the likes of forza, but still fun to play. The single player is fairly crap, barebones at best, but the multiplayer is as fun as any, especially with a group of mates, never had a problem with the servers and I'm not sure what your issues with the cars are but the racing is solid. I'll agree the whole club system really doesn't add anything to the game for me though.

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@MJ12-Conspiracy: Apparently the amount of people playing it currently makes your entire tr0ll post redundant and a figment of your deluded thoughts yes? Nothing you said in it is even truth, why did you waste your precious time? I see that you are probably horrible at driving games since the AI was probably too hard for you to beat since there is no catch up ability enabled so if you can't slow down and turn corners correctly you can't catch the AI, but nice to hear you have an opinion even if 99% of it is lie.

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@MJ12-Conspiracy: i want to defend sony so bad , but yeah this game is average , i bought it first day , with the patchs the IA has imporoved but besides that this game only has pretty graphics

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Just finished free Forza Horizon 2 Presents Fast & Furious Achievements on Xbox One.

Perfect timing.

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Cool, I was pretty sure this would never happen.

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