– Ferrari F40, June 20th, 2015, courtesy of TaSiMa.
Polyphony Digital has posted a maintenance announcement set to commence next Wednesday, July 1st, starting 21:30GMT/UTC (click here to convert this to your local time zone) and lasting for approximately three and a half hours. As always, you’ll be unable to use the game’s online features during the maintenance period.
This maintenance period is an unusual one: it’s set to last three and a half hours when most last no longer than two, and it will have been less than a week since GT6 update 1.20 launched. While this lessens the possibility of another update or more content, it can’t entirely be ruled out as maintenance periods typically precede update releases.
Stay tuned!
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Just in case people are still browsing this newsie, Famine said something fascinating in one of the Course Maker threads, about the delay not having anything to do with technical issues. This is interesting. I’ve been pondering this as much as my sleep deprived brain can, and I get the sense that either it ties into something still coming for GT6, or something coming for GT7. I’m still of the opinion that PD is focusing almost all of their efforts on GT7 and GT6 is getting trickle down benefits. It will be interesting to see what Course Maker II is, and what that delay reason is.
No Mention of an update or what happened in the last Maintenance?
Tp be honest guys – i think it’s the course maker that’s causing problems. I got a feeling it was supposed to be in the update last week – but it got moved some hours and only the SRT’s and GFoS came out.
Same now… no words…and there is no news in the “Update” section to the left …so…
I think the Course Maker is definitely having problems getting off the ground. The maintenace could have something to do with it, but I’m thinking PD would make an announcement at least a few days before it was released.
This maintenance may well have something to do with the CM, it would have to make courses that would work online after all, but I’m thinking it mostly has to do with the FIA Championships. Those were supposed to be ready in the spring, but something involved with the body administering pro racing around the world, I can see how this could drag out. Maybe PD are making a variety of race cars suitable for it. Maybe FIA is working out the details and legaleze with various countries for prizes, or something nice for the winners. Or it could be that they’re simply bogged down in determining what those championships are. Who knows, but in dealing with my own federal government, I can imagine that a bureaucracy like FIA moves with all the speed and agility of a luxury cruise liner. We’ll see what comes of this odd maintenance thing soon enough.
Well, I have to honest, major let down over here. All hype and nothing. At least post something saying what you did fix. Some of like hearing about techno stuff. Not staying up late for anymore updates.
Could it be there’s actually been an updateless maintenance??? :’D ….
…you can just smell and feel the disappointment all over the GT world haha
What happened with update?
Maintenances don’t ensure updates. This was just a routine maintenance.
Shouldn’t the maintenance be completed, or do I have the time wrong?
Routine Maintenance. ‘Nuff said.
Can we please end this nonsense about PD needs to wow us. Do yourself a favor, get a PS1 a copy of GT, play it and explain to me, where any racing game since has has made that sort of leap and bound in game play, customization, and variety. All any racing game has done since at best, is take evolutionary steps,and not revolutionize the genre like the original GT. The way I see it, 20 years later and everyone is still playing catch up.
Nothing?!
Nothing yet…. as expected :(
Wait for it… Wait for it….! Ah, the disappointment… always comes on schedule. lol. But only time will tell.
+1
Unusual maintenance just a week after Update 1.20?
Maybe an Updete 2.0? Who knows…
Aaand… Nope. Nothing! Routine Maintenance! I expected it.
Maintenance! PD and sony want shooting! Still got issues with game since release. Online lobby’s are a joke.(cheap client off loading servers)! Gt7 is gonna get ignored if same guys are doing servers.PD have blatantly ignored issues that need addressing with this semi arcade racer..Gt6 should of never been released with so much missing or not working. Pathetic attempt!
Seldom if ever have lobby issues. Maybe you ISP is a joke.
pd is digging its own grave, even if gt7 comes
now it wont be any wow factor, that went to PC and DC
All it needs to be is GT for PD to get my shekels. Since when does a gamer have to only choose one game?
What in the world is so “wow” about DriveClub and a PC sim on consoles?? When Assetto Corsa comes to PS4, what will make it so awesome?
Now, I happen to like the concept of P CARS, a racing sim with a variety of car types and leagues represented unlike most sims. But sims just aren’t as involving as racers like GT and Forza because all the cars are slathered with the liveries of other teams. They’re loaners. You just… race, that’s all. There is no customization, there’s no modification, there’s only tuning and racing. This is what sets apart Gran Turismo from other racers, and to a lesser extent Forza. And apparently the world agrees with me, not you, because even GT5, which was supposed to be the laughing stock of the gaming community, is still selling. And GT6 is selling better.
What will you guys say when GT7 news melts the intranets down? That it’s a bunch of people from GT Planet and NeoGAF spamming the servers? ;D
The visuals on DriveClub are absolutely stellar with the best rain/wet weather visual effects ever in a racing sim. Assetto Corsa is a cut above in FFB in racing sims, even among the best of sims, it’s usually mentioned as the preferred template for FFB when people put together the differing elements of racing games to build their perfect game. Not everyone is interested in a “game” or customization or modification or “car ownership”. Some of us just really want an immersive, realistic racing experience. That’s the appeal of all racing sims and 1 million in sales for PCars in one month shows that the idea of a pure racing sim has broad appeal. Broad enough to be obscenely profitable as well, given the significantly lower development cost of the more narrowly focused racing sim genre.
You seem to think that everything boils down to who sells the most games = best game for everyone and that’s clearly not the case. Not everyone is looking for the buffet line, some of us are looking for fine dining, and so far the GT series just doesn’t offer that.
What i can say is that within a short amount of time GT is suddenly not alone and for me now not the game that is the one to see as nr1 sim. Project Cars is in my world better and Assetto is a factor to compete with too. If GT looses the nr1 simulator status then they are digging their own grave. And if they continue on the path of releasing dreamcars and delaying content they promise then the hole gets deeper. Tuning dreamcars is not fun. But lets hope GT7 can catch up regarding sound, ai, damage, relevant cars, then they are just another racing game. And PD have had most time of all to do a game.
Oh Johnny, forgive me for saying that I hated P CARS, and that racing sims weren’t realistic. My mistake. ;D
And by the way Johnny, just about everything on the next gen consoles and latest graphic card equipped PCs looks stellar. So let’s do compare the graphics from a console using essentially decade old technology.
@mulan, there are plenty of cars to tinker with than “dreamcars.” There are about a thousand unique cars in GT6 to play with.
And it may displease you and many here, but a lot of people are lobbying for PD to focus most of their work on getting GT7 out the door, including me. Because that decade old tech in PS3 is just too outdated to deliver what Kaz wants. Anyone can argue that Kaz pushed the envelopes too far in the new GT engine when many of us like Scaff and myself were sure that he would cut back many facets like resolution to get the game looking and performing better. But there’s the universe the way we want it, and there’s this place called reality, and we only get to live in one of them.
Neither Gran Turismo or Forza have ever been nr1 at simulation, but both of them have gone to admirable lengths to get in that ballpark with some of the best sims. And even Forza sells in numbers that any sim maker would die to have.
By the way, what do you mean, “most time of all to do a game”? GT5 was out five years after GT4 – with some interruptions like GT PSP. GT6 took three, was delivered on schedule, and it will only be two years old this December. Last Guardian has been in development for several years, Duke Nukem Forever took… well, forever. ;D
Whatever PD delivers in GT6 will seem pathetic to what they can accomplish on PS4, so it will be nice to have, but I insist they should be working on a much better game for the new console. And with that, I have to enjoy my saturday.
I know about GT, all cars, tunings and so on. I admire Kaz. But i was dissapointed GT6 went out on ps3. It didnt feel right. I will buy GT7 but never bought GT6, i play on ps4 and not ps3. Since Ps4 is not near as complicated as PS3, PD wont do same
wow factor on graphics as on previous versions, that is what i think. Sure they will be great but will they be as clean as always to a point of perfection but loosing the thrill of speed and damage?
Anyway, they have had lots of dev. time
on gt7. Project Cars is here now. And as i feel now the team behind Project Cars work faster and are communicating with the fans from day 1. Pd seems like they just discovered social media?!?! And when they did they understood that sound was not so perfect as Kaz said it was.
Now they have Gt6 and working on promissed features and other fixes at the same time trying to get GT7 out.
I guess as much as i love GT it starts to be more nostalgic than anything else. And im
happy that we finally have alternatives to GT. But if they dont get what is happening, that they are not alone, they are digging their grave. We have seen this with many other companies, Sony is one of them.
sony was one of them is what i wanted to say. They still struggle to be profitable.
If GT6 was such a disaster, it would have completely dropped of the radar. Instead, it’s selling right along on Amazon. In fact, in the Amazon Top 100 PS3 games, it’s at this moment at 15th place. The only other racing games in that list are Midnight Club and GT5. I don’t see any graves being dug just yet.
As far as developer involvement, I’ve stated a number of times that it has nothing to do with how good a game is or how well it sells. The only thing it does is make the fans feel loved and included in the virtual family. In Forza for instance, the only major thing I’m aware of that came of fans complaining about something is in the price of the DLC, which at first I had to smirk at until it was pointed out how much extra DLC would cost at the proposed price compared to the game itself. But Forza 2 had a number of things that were broken about the game, and the only thing they paid any attention to were unfair physics issues with certain cars. Very few matters otherwise. People act like Kaz hasn’t listened to a thing we’ve said, but there are quite a few examples of things PD has changed or done away with in GT5 and 6. Thank God XP is one of them that got sent to the trash.
You can insist that Kaz and the team have no clue what the fans want and what’s good in other games, but even as messed up as GT5 and 6 were in some ways, they still manage to sell. Heck, GT5 is still selling, go figure, and it’s likely near the 11 million sales mark. Not bad for a “dead” game. ;D
I guess one more thing is in order to mention. I wouldn’t look at GT6 as any indication of what GT7 is going to be. It’s more like a GT5 R-Spec or GT5 Gaiden, a kind of side game that’s more of the same but different. And GT5 itself suffered from teething pangs, thanks to the team evidently being so enamored with what they could do with PS3 when it was unveiled to them, that they swamped themselves with four or five possibilities of how to design the game. It evidently took them a year or two to decide what GT5 should be, then GT PSP became an issue in the middle of that. So it came out as a game that was half baked, made with bits of half finished ideas kind of bundled together.
I honestly believe that Kaz thought GT6 was going to be a whole new ballgame, because he’d be building it for PS4. I don’t think he meant it for PS3 at all. Look at little elements of PS4 tech that are spliced into GT6, like a basic tessellation algorithm. This is part of PS4’s feature set. I think that the reason the GT6 engine is even more feature rich is because it was the GT7 engine ported and stripped back a bit. I think Kaz considered GT6 to be his red headed step child, disappointed with it because there was no way it could be the Gran Turismo he wanted to make, and he didn’t pour his heart into it. The team either. And I suspect that they mostly dumped GT6 and went full bore to work on GT7 just as soon as they could. This is a logical conclusion, considering that outside of the Ayrton Senna special content, there have only been Vision GT cars and a tiny number of new real world cars, and no more new tracks for GT6 as Kaz himself stated.
If I was Kaz, I would structure work so that a minimal team worked on GT6, able to accomplish the bare necessities to keep the game alive, but focus the majority of PD resources on getting GT7 out the door as soon as possible. I know this isn’t a universally liked idea, but it seems to be the situation at Polyphony. We shall just have to see what happens with GT7, but I wouldn’t go buying any mourners suits for a good long while yet.
As I’ve said many times, you’re delusional TenD if you think GT is in the ballpark with the best sims in terms of physics and simulation. It’s not even close on nearly every level. One only need spend some time on PCars or Assetto Corsa or any other decent sim, even those 10 years old, to know this to be true The only trump card you have at your disposal is sales and you pull it out every time the discussion about the actual content of GT and the accuracy of it’s simulation gets questioned, as if that is somehow relevant to a discussion about how good a simulation is. It’s not relevant, and it only makes your argument weaker. I suppose you’d like to convince me that Star Wars 1-3 is better then 4-6 because it doubled the box office?
If you say so Johnny. I guess those pro racers love those Outrun physics. ;D
Well, I suppose one more thing, sensei. There was this race a few years back, in which they needed a car tuned in the middle of it. And they used a video game to test tunes for the car till they found one that worked.
But… I dunno, maybe that never happened. Maybe you should just laugh, and cuddle up to P CARS tonight, you funny guy you.
I try to stay out of comment arguments but good lord I feel this needs saying.
Johnny, you say all these things about how Project Cars and Assetto Corsa are real simulators and that if GT is in the ballpark it’s as far in the outfield as anything could ever be.
Well that’s how Assetto Corsa and Project Cars look to iRacing and rfactor. If you want a REAL simulator, get yourself one of those and stop blowing hot air up you know whats.
I realize the internet is chock full of whiners, I can be one of them at times, but all you do is whine about how GT is terrible and try to ruin it for everyone in your sight. You know that GT isn’t the greatest simulator, we all know but choose to ignore that fact and still like it, so would you please get off your box and let us enjoy some ignorant bliss?
Thanks Awfully
^^Damn, someone said that before I could – thanks Racer. Not everyone plays/races on any of these sims for the immersion. Some play for the community aspect (why I play GT), some for the competition (why I got bored of iRacing), some for the tracks (why I have rFactor – Targa Florio). Additionally why do people still compare GT to next gen games is beyond me. Sure – it will be far behind the newer offerings in many aspects – no s**t, Sherlock.
Additionally, why not just pony up the $$ and make a trip to a track driving a real car – nothing is more immersive than that, all of the sounds will be accurate, grip will definitely be on real, heavy damage will be on, SRF will not be enabled – it will not exist.
@GTracerEHTeam nowhere did I say PCars and AC are “real simulators”. If you follow the conversation, you’ll see I was responding specifically to TenD’s assertion that Forza and GT are in the ballpark with the best sims. Saying GT is not in the same ballpark as any of the games you mentioned in terms of physics has nothing to do with what is and is not a real simulator. All games have flaws, even the best of sims have flaws, but IMO they are light years ahead of GT (can’t speak for Forza, never played it). If you don’t like PCars and other sims brought into the conversation, take it up with TenD, I’m just responding to his ludicrous assertions.
Good luck with your ignorant bliss.
Simulator is what Mclaren has in their factory, all of what we have the chance to PLAY with are games. And when I want to play a racing game… GT rules! I´m with @TenaciousD
I’m not saying anything ludicous Johnny. I’m expressing elements of opinion mixed with experiences and opinions expressed not just by gamers but people who have experience in the automotive and racing fields. Some of them say things that agree with me, some of them agree with you. This is what happens when people engage themselves in emotion driven things like video games that express a world via both simulation and stimulation. And listen son, it is one thing to engage in an exchange of ideas, but it is another thing entirely to insist that you are the Jesus of Truth in racing games, and everything I state is just dumb.
You really are not the judge of truth and validity that you carry on around here as being, as much as you think you are. You’re just a guy with a net connection, the same as everyone else. Have a nice life.
Get your popcorn and drinks, everyone: It’s a never-ending war between keyboard warriors Johnnypenso and Tenacious D.
This should develop into something hilarious by the end.
As I’ve pointed out many times and TenD fails to acknowledge, anyone is entitled to their opinions about any game, to like or dislike any element of a game, but physics can be discussed factually and compared quite easily side by side. Things either work to some degree or they don’t. Elements of physics are modeled or they are not. Top speeds can be measured. The effect of camber can be measured. The elements of the tire model are known and can be studied. An “opinion” doesn’t wash away the facts no matter how many times you repeat it. An “opinion” that your 85′ Chevette is a better car than a 2015 Corvette won’t make it so no matter how many times you repeat it.
TenD loves to raise specific issues and make bold declarative statements and then tries to pretend he’s talking about sales and car count and Japanese culture and what is in Kaz’s head etc. etc. etc. If you can’t back up your statements directly without resorting to red herrings you shouldn’t make them to begin with.
Whatever you say. Whatever. I don’t care.
What Johnny doesn’t point out is that certain fans like me are entitled to our own opinions… as long as they are in harmony with his.
Johnny, my remarks about how involving and simlike GT6 and Forza 4 on have nothing to do with sales and Kaz’s head. I sincerely doubt any of the racing people who like Gran Turismo as a sim think that way either. There is definitely something ludicrous here, but it’s not from me.
Dude, you’re like a troll.
Tancious, just because they sold lots doesnt mean its the best game and if they stall a bit longer it will be something out of this world. I loved GT as it was closest i could come to a sim on ps3 and previous versions because they were first to do on those consoles. With ps4 its not the fact anymore. It will still sell lots but im not sure the best drivers will be playing GT.
And if that is the case that i end up playing destruction derby i pass on it really soon.
…They are going to nerf the Dodge VGTs. I can tell. ;)
I highly doubt it. SRT would throw a fit.
A long maintenance period coming on a weird day right before a prominent Amurican holiday makes me think it’s something unique. Not a new car, that would be teased. I think it’s:
– Course Maker II (unlikely but possible)
– The FIA Championship (more likely)
Or something else wunnerful to everyone but the complainers here. I think Kaz and the team have a nice 4th of July present for us faithful yanks.
Ergh… I hope so!
And by saying that I try to agree with you, but… look, we’ll see I guess.
As you are so fond of pointing out when it suits you, the game is made by Japanese people in Japan. I’m quite certain they could care less about a holiday in country that is half a world away.
Considering Gran Turismo sells much better here in the west, Johnny, I think you know what tending to a customer base means. Or maybe you don’t, and all that business acumen you flaunt is just vaporflaunt…
Maybe you could do a little more than criticize the game and its fans for a minute. This is a weird day to have an update. This is a particularly odd day to have a big update. So what do you think, professor?
It’s only odd because you impose your own odd view of things on it. It’s just another working day, whatever schedule they are following it falls on that day. Not everything is a conspiracy.
Well perhaps next year they will consider it?
choo choo?
Nuooooo I was off July the 1st!
Ok guess I’ll mess around painting and tuning cars.
It’s only down for 3.5 hours or so, guy. Is that how long you’re off for? ;D
But I suppose it will be a long three hours, guess we’ll see what comes of it.
Maybe it’s the July 4th music from GT5 like what they did for Christmas…
Will It have firework from katie perry?
Don’t think they’d have to bring the servers down for that.
I’d save the course maker for GT7 if I were PD. The window for its release in GT6 is starting to get narrower and a bunch of gamers have moved on to other games. I believe by the time it comes to GT6 it will have a bunch of bugs and glitches because of it being rushed. Instead of being released in GT6 as an update, I would save it to release when GT7 comes out. Just my opinion…….
Rushed? How long has gt6 been out? Not sure I could be convinced that pd has rushed this one bit. I personally have been waiting on this since day one, I won’t be getting a ps4 and would like to get all of the content promised in the game I bought. Late or not.
because PCars is functional…
No i think it shouldn’t be left until GT7 because when we come back to look at this game It will be one of the worse ones for not having it. Plus PD has confirmed track maker now they give it to us.
I’d save it for GT7 too, because ANYTHING the team does on PS4 will be a light year better than anything they can make work in GT6 on this crusty PS3. Course Maker II in GT6 will be a glitchy mess at certain points because the PS3 is just being pushed too hard from the new game engine to have much headroom for more features, outside of an Event Maker, Race Mod and a Livery Editor of some kind. In GT7, it will have more features, more terrain types and regions to play with, more ways to edit trackside details… just about everything will be better.
I don’t think a CM II will be much buggier than Sierra – at least I hope not! But what you can do with it will probably be little more than you could on GT5, and disappoint a lot of people. Still, Kaz said it was coming, so it has to show up at some point. It could be next week, this is a big long maintenance period at a weird time, but my money is on something else. I think whatever it is will be something special for us gaijin for the 4th of July weekend.
Rushed? You do know what “rushed” means, right? /s
Yes please Lamborghini VGT
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There’s no course creator coming july 1st…
Lamborghini Vision Gran Turismo pls!?
Course creator. Please… Chances of it happening? 5% chance
I would say PDI has begun churning full drive to complete this game and move on. GT6 has, despite still proving to be a solid series stability wise, been a sour chapter that developer and fan alike would like to pretend wasn’t so bad.
You should say that to the guys who complained about the SRT Tomahawk in the last update’s thread: Nothing came from them but white-hot complaining.
Probably for the Tomahawk X event they talked about in the last update’s news thread or just a routine maintenance
I thought that was a GTPlanet thing. Its supposed to be an official event?
I err… okay. My bad, I shoulda read before writing. My bad, you’re right. +1 to you.
That was quick.
I know this 1 is server update.
You saw my message, lol
Anyways, what could this one be, so shortly after the SRT?
Probably a routine maintenance or like I started thinking about after my other post right up there, The two Le Mans Nissans.
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