Dear Kaz,
I am a 33 years old mexican, that wake up 7 am everyday to go to work. After 9 hours in the office and 2 hours in the gym I can finally go home, driving for around 40 minutes from the company site to home. While in the car I am thinking about my progress in thhe game and planning in buying a Toyota GT86 and start working in a special livery based on the JDM Culture as a tribute (Thanks to the gran turismo series I become a fan of the JDM Culture).
Finally after the long trip I get home, have some dinner and took a shower. the clock is marking around 10:00 pm when I started GT Sport. I completed a batch of License test finishing up to test 32. With the credits earned I went and finally bought that GT86, I was working really excited in the livery, and when I was close to finish it and tried to put a new sitck in alayer I got a message about server maintenance and that my progress can't be saved. After more of and hour working in the livery I can't save it, I decided to check the estimated time for the servers being down and apparentely they will be down for 2 hours.
I checked my clock, it says it is the 11:20 pm here in México. Unfortunately I can't stand awake on my PS4 waiting to the servers being restored again as it is really late here and I have to wake up early tomorrow again to go to work. Close to go to bed several feelings pass through my head, first of all sadness due not being able to save that livery that end up consuming around an hour of work and couldn't be saved, then in comes the frustration, because at my age (technically at the half of the expected lifetime) the free time is sparse and I can't help but felt let down by the people that took the decision to make the save only online.
I can understand that the progression and the focus of the game it is online when I preordered my game, but I was never expected that something basic, as a save data require to be always online and that I can't use features as the scapes or the livery editor that are not directly connected to the online progression of the game.
Then I felt anger, because in this case, it was just a livery that don't have a real impact in the game, but then I though in the scenario where someone it is doing one of the endurance challenges, challenges that require time, and after an exhausting session that user is able to get gold but can't save because the servers are down.
A situation like this just create a feeling of fear; I am fear of start and endurance race and then got nothing as reward because the servers are down; I am fear of putting 20 minutes in a license test to ace my times and get a gold result just to don't be able to save it because the servers are under maintenance.
I have been a fan of the franchise since the very beginning, I have played every GT game up to date, they have been part of my life and they have growth up with me, but now I am fear to stop playing the games because I can't have control about my saves, to waste that valuable free time in GT Sport and lost what I did and then start to slowly stop playing the game which I growth up my entire life for a bad plan design.
I hope that you are able to read this (and to the other users of GTPlanet that could be confused why I put this here it is to have a place to generate a link to share on twitter) and that some changes could be done to the way the saves are being managed for the game, because I am not the only one with this feeling about the only online base, and this is something that just can makr the people to stop playing the game.
