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Gran Turismo Sport Update 1.69 removes online services​

As of today, all of Gran Turismo Sport’s multiplayer features and game modes are no longer accessible. This means you can no longer access modes such as Community, Open Lobby, and the titular Sport mode. Unfortunately, this means you can also no longer browse or download custom liveries. Any cars in your garage with a custom livery will be restored to their original colour.

Sadly, you can't even buy the game digitally anymore as GT Sport was delisted from the PlayStation Store earlier this month without warning.

Thankfully, GT Sport’s single-player modes are still playable offline, including the GT League campaign mode and previously purchased downloadable content.

In other good news, Polyphony Digital has removed GT Sport’s online connection requirement, so you now save campaign progress offline. This bodes well for Gran Turismo 7’s future preservation.

Gran Turismo Sport End of Online Services - gran-turismo.com

On January 31, 2024, at 06:00 UTC, the online se...

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Gran Turismo Sport Update Shuts Down Online Services

Say goodbye to Gran Turismo Sport.

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[nial]

Can we expect the same for Gran Turismo 7, then?

 

[SlimySnake]

Good guy Sony.

 

[Mowcno]

"Polyphony Digital has removed GT Sport’s online connection requirement, so you now save campaign progress offline."

Thank goodness for that. This game could have become worthless without that.

 

[ChoosableOne]

If there had been no reaction, they'd have gotten away with it. Congratulations to the "players".

 

[blastprocessor]

Ahoy to hacked save games.

 

[FrankWza]

I miss arrogant Sony

 

[makaveli60]

This should be the standard with games like this.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

GAF is secretly disappointed because they have one less thing to complain and rant about.

 

[tusharngf]

Fuck Ubisoft. Crew is going to be offline from April.

 

[Naked Lunch]

Good move.
Theres some races/tracks/replays I lost in Gran Turismo 6 because they were online only.
Still pissed at that actually.

 

[Skifi28]

Always online sucks, but if you are to do it at least follow in PD's example. I did expect them to patch it for offline play, but the truth can often differ from expectations.

 

[Klosshufvud]

This is the least worst outcome of this I guess. Still shitty that they lock the game behind online wall.

 

[EverydayBeast]

GT Sport was a special game that set the foundation for 7, I encourage people to play it it changes your perspective on driving and cars.

 

[Rudius]

This is great. I only play GT7 now due to the complete VR support, but still a good thing to see.

 

[mckmas8808]

Can we expect the same for Gran Turismo 7, then?

100%, YES!

 

[Bry0]

That’s awesome. They basically did this with GT5/6 so I hoped it would be the case here. This is a good example of how to retire an online game. Thank you PD for giving a crap.

 

[Shane89]

someone share that with ubishit

 

[Pelao]

This paints a good picture for the future of GT7.

 

[Trogdor1123]

That’s great. When they flip the switch on things like this it should done this way.

 

[rofif]

Well what's the fucking point if it's not on the disc.
way better than nothing anyway

 

[lh032]

you have my respect sony.

 

[MarkMe2525]

Awesome move. More devs need to take notice

 

[Klosshufvud]

The biggest benefit of this is that an eventual PS4 emulator will mean this will be playable. Unless we get GT7 on PC this year (come on God pleeeaase)

 

[skyfinch]

This is why yall shouldn't diss Sony
If Sony was a momma bear, she would protect us from the pack of wolves that are Microsoft and Nintendo, and allow us to suckle on her generous teets when we are scared and alone.

 

[Skifi28]

This is why yall shouldn't diss Sony
If Sony was a momma bear, she would protect us from the pack of wolves that are Microsoft and Nintendo, and allow us to suckle on her generous teets when we are scared and alone.

 

[Elysium44]

Well what's the fucking point if it's not on the disc.
way better than nothing anyway

Is there any single player content on the original 1.0 disc version to speak of? The game was always multiplayer focused until it got updated later. Even if you could play the 1.0 version offline you wouldn't be able to do much.

 

[darrylgorn]

Oh thank you, oh high and mighty Sony gods, for not being complete assholes.

 

[ChoosableOne]

This is why yall shouldn't diss Sony
If Sony was a momma bear, she would protect us from the pack of wolves that are Microsoft and Nintendo, and allow us to suckle on her generous teets when we are scared and alone.

It's more like the Red Riding Hood story. We are in the middle of the last conversation, that's all.

 

[Crayon]

 

[radewagon]

 

[Moriarty1889]

Well done Sony. I enjoy playing it still and have unlocked many cars. All live service games should be patched to play offline so that the people who bought or actually enjoyed the games don’t lose them.

 

[Shin-Ra]

Good to know they’re still actively considering this but unless they freely replace existing copies with a GT SPORT SPEC III BD-ROM (or GT7 SPEC-II) with the online removed, unpatched versions will always be a reminder of unnecessary server integration.

 

[sachos]

This is really good news, sadly there is no physical disc with this patch but yeah, this should be the bare minimum for games with online integration.
And to those that say "see you complained for nonthing", its the fact that people keep raising concerns that get stuff done in the first place, the same happened with the CMOS Bomb fiasco.
Hope more devs take notice of this move.

 

[Filben]

This is how it's done. If you make always-on games then at least make sure people can still play your game once you terminate the online service.

 

[Bojji]

Oh thank you, oh high and mighty Sony gods, for not being complete assholes.

They could have done it the Ubisoft way leave game non functional

Game should have offline option from the beginning but this is better than what some others publishers do. Patch servers will be there for many, many years unlike game servers.

 

[Shin-Ra]

Excuse the brain splurge.

They need to at least structure the games’ version 1.000.000 (no patches) UI so when online services go bye-bye they gracefully fall back to showing just all the offline playable content. As if the online integration never existed. There are drawbacks if developers use this maliciously to remove content they no longer like but what’s the better alternative?

But the source of the problem seems to be SIE and Polyphony don’t trust local saves, the existence of save modification, cross-platform save transfer, the need to kick cheating out of online competition and esports.

We get forced online integration because of cheaters and current technology’s inability to prevent local save modification.

Let players forgo the ability to play online at all if they want fully offline progression? Seems a fair compromise if SIE willing to admit these players aren’t going to buy any micro transaction crap anyway.

Judging by how slow PS4 saves transfer from USB storage, the PlayStation OS is doing some heavy-duty checks on save files on the fly but it’s not enough. They need to rethink the whole system.

Something I noticed early on with PS4 saves is they fall into rough size categories, as if they’re padded and encrypted to clearly highlight later modifications. Again, this obviously isn’t working.