First it was delayed, then delayed again, then delayed a bit more, finally turned yesterday and now it’s stuck in traffic. You couldn’t make it up, you really couldn’t.
Sony has announced that Gran Turismo 5 is ‘experiencing some extreme online traffic congestion’ and the best way to play the game is.. offline. Yes, really. Here is the full statement from Sony.
Currently the online services of Gran Turismo 5 (GT5) is experiencing some extreme online traffic congestion.
Because GT5 performs online access not only when participating in online races and using community features, but also when starting the game and during the various screen displays in GT Mode, unfortunately this online congestion is also affecting standard gameplay.
If you are experiencing the following symptoms, we recommend that you temporarily play GT5 without connecting the PlayStation 3 (PS3) to the network.
(A) If you are finding it takes several minutes before being able to perform any actions in the following screens:
– Before the start of the opening movie, immediately after launching the game
– At the top screen after the game has started
– In various screens within GT Mode(B) Or, when it takes several minutes or more to gain a result when the following operations are performed:
– When entering the open lobby, if it takes several minutes or more before the room list is acquired and displayed.
– When clicking on an ID in the participant list of a room, if it takes several minutes or more before the menu appears.
– When writing on the message boards within “Community”, if it is taking several minutes or more for your posts to appear.* Also, some of the following features have been limited intentionally as a measure to temporarily alleviate some of the network traffic. Due to these limitations, you will find that:
– The viewing and update of the [Log] in the Community section of GT Mode has been temporarily disabled.
– Changes to the Profile may not update in some cases.
– Changes to the Friend List may not update in some cases.Currently we are simultaneously working on several different solutions to improve the network status and alleviate the network congestion as soon as possible. We are expecting to be able to provide a proper online service again soon.
We sincerely apologize to our customers for the inconvenience.
Source: Gran-turismo.com
hol
Buy more servers, easy ;)
Dlaf42
If this was just affecting online play then fine i good understand it,but to have the main game affected too is just not on. Since getting it yesterday i have not been able to see my museum cards, videos and it takes ages to go to different screens.I tried at 6 am this morning to play the game before i had to make the school run with the kids and the servers were getting hammered then to.How could sony not see this happening is beyond me..
trollmonster
I’ve been having these problems, I was starting to worry it was just me, at least this means it should be fixed!
BadBoyBoogie
Same here. I haven’t been online with the game yet (well to race at least), so I was starting to think there was some major problem with it!! I hope it gets sorted very soon!!
Radiitz
One of the reasons I didn’t rush out to get it on release day. I just knew there would be something. Always is these days. Whatever happened to the days where you could get a game from release date and play it in full from the get go? These days, its things like problems, patches, online, DLC etc that stop you from experiencing the damn thing to its fullest from release date.
GTRsannin
Not really that big a deal just don’t connect online right now there is so much to do in the single player portion of the game anyways it would be a bigger problem if this was an online only game i mean who bought this game only for the online gaming portion anyways like Black Ops or some other game like that
cc_star
But the problem is that it halts the game even when you’re not in online modes, because like most games these days its constantly in communication with a server even when you’re playing offline with waits of up to 3mins before it realises its not going to get a server response so times out.
The way to temp-fix it us to disable the internet in settings > network settings of your PS3 XMB main menu
GTRsannin
Lucky i still have a wired connection i just need to take the cable out of the modem and that’s it
wearejimbo
Yup had all those problems. Took yesterday afternoon off work to play this and was OK till about 4pm when the problems started. Figured out for myself that it was something to do with the server side after I got a “server could not be contacted” error. After that I logged out of PSN and all was again right with the world, well in my front room anyway.
gideon1451
Since I got it the day before release, I had a go at online play then as I knew this would happen.
Online play is pretty good too :P
ElGuason
what did they expect big game, everyone’s waiting for it, everyone gets it, the servers are not good enough!? of course that was going to happen.
kerrfaewishy
never bought it on release thank god al wait till its patched up and ready for ??? hundreds/thousands/million people trying to play online at the same
Lambo_1989
So glad is wasn’t the actual game but the network, waiting 3 mins just for the my home menu to load.