GT 7 Servers are still down...
- Thread starter Paulyrichard
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It is approaching late afternoon in Japan, and the fact we've had no update isn't necessarily a bad sign.
Then again, it's not exactly a good sign either.
Which is kind of the point, isn't it?
We are being left to speculate.
I have other stuff to do, other games to play etc...but, at least to me, that's not the point.
We've all paid a not insubstantial amount for a product and we cannot enjoy that product.
With a ps plus renewal this game has cost me £82.
Now, to me that's not a huge expense, but it's still enough of an outlay for me to become mildly annoyed when it doesn't work.
The only thing that I'm interested in now, assuming this is sorted today, is what, if anything, we are offered in the way of in game compensation.
It would be a public relations misstep to do nothing, in my opinion, but I understand it can't be too generous or it might break the in game economy.
So, no 1 million credits or one of the cars of similar value.
As others have suggested, I feel it might be a roulette ticket or a small amount of coins (maybe 50k).
Anyway, let's hope we get to find out soon.
Then again, it's not exactly a good sign either.
Which is kind of the point, isn't it?
We are being left to speculate.
I have other stuff to do, other games to play etc...but, at least to me, that's not the point.
We've all paid a not insubstantial amount for a product and we cannot enjoy that product.
With a ps plus renewal this game has cost me £82.
Now, to me that's not a huge expense, but it's still enough of an outlay for me to become mildly annoyed when it doesn't work.
The only thing that I'm interested in now, assuming this is sorted today, is what, if anything, we are offered in the way of in game compensation.
It would be a public relations misstep to do nothing, in my opinion, but I understand it can't be too generous or it might break the in game economy.
So, no 1 million credits or one of the cars of similar value.
As others have suggested, I feel it might be a roulette ticket or a small amount of coins (maybe 50k).
Anyway, let's hope we get to find out soon.
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Looks like they have also lost all of our data, does that mean we will all have to start again from the beginning again ?
Stu
Stu
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- Autumnal_Glow
- AutumnalGlow
This is fake.
This is fake.
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- MrNukkii
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My heart skipped a beat over a bogus post from a fake account lol
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troll account double i lol
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That isn't the genuine GT twitter account.
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Beat me to it!
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- Autumnal_Glow
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- AutumnalGlow
Y'know who has working servers? Forza Horizon 5. If you have the game and haven't unlocked the new weekly car, now's a good time!
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- Death Chicane
- MrNukkii
- Mister Nooki
This one shows the server status. It's still down.
I have a bot pinging the servers every 5 seconds. It's using the same endpoint as that website, so it's basically like hitting F5 every 5 seconds, but way less bandwidth. Once it's up, it'll bail and send a notification to my personal discord server. Off to play more Horizon: Forbidden West!
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Not only related to the end of GT5, but also to the beginning of GT6.
When one of the first GT6 updates was issued it introduced a new car. Someone worked out that if you bought the new car for a relatively small amount of credits in v1.01, you could save your game, delete GT6 from your console, reinstall v1.00 from the disc to find v1.00 didn't recognise the new car properly and allowed you to sell it for 20,000,000 credits. (The sell price was actually way higher, but the game had the 20 million credit cap.) You could then buy a 20 million credit car, upgrade to v1.01 and repeat the process.
Of course this meant that people spent their time deleting and reinstalling to get as many 20 million credit cars as possible before the exploit got patched. Of course back then you could sell cars so having a hundred P4s or whatever meant you'd never run out of money, you'd just sell one car at a time to get a few million when needed.
PD patched it fairly quickly by making the save format used in v1.02 incompatible with v1.00... but not before early adopters had put away enough high value cars to ensure they never needed the outrageously priced microtransactions.
GTP thread about it here.
Nevermind I messed up.
Cheked the GTSport website.😂
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The crazy part is.. Kaz already told everyone the GT7 servers are fine after the earthquake. So that can't be an excuse for why the servers are down.
This is becoming really unprofessional on PD's part, and really embarrassing for Sony.
This is becoming really unprofessional on PD's part, and really embarrassing for Sony.
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- mrPetros
I dont think its a server problem. Its a code problem.
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- dawko-san
I wonder what's the big deal.
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