It’s looking likely that the planned PS Plus version of DriveClub, which was set to include a track and a handful of cars for players to race with in order to entice them into buying the full game. However, with the game having now been out in the wild for a short while, it seems that Sony is backtracking on this deal and may not release the PS Plus version of the game after all.
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In an interview with the Metro, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president and CEO Jim Ryan addressed the much-delayed PS Plus DriveClub and was reluctant to claim that it was still something they were working on. Here’s the excerpt from the interview:
GC: Is there still going to be the free PlayStation Plus version?
JR: That’s still being looked at.
GC: You can’t guarantee that it will ever happen?
JR: I can’t say anything at this stage.
Judging by this statement it seems likely that PS Plus DriveClub has been canned, and though that would mean Sony would be breaking its promise to consumers, it’s perhaps a smart idea at this point. With DriveClub having experienced a myriad of server problems upon its release, leaving important aspects of the game completely inaccessible, interest has inevitably dwindled. While the game is up and running now, there is likely not a large enough market to warrant releasing a free version of the game right now.
DriveClub was initially scheduled to be a release game that was going to release in its entirety for free on PS Plus. However, it fell behind schedule and Resogun was offered to subscribers of Sony’s PS4 online service in its place, with a PS Plus edition of the game said to be releasing around the time of its launch.
Unfortunately, the game’s awful online issues prevented this from being the case, though Jim Ryan insists that this won’t be the case with any of the company’s other first-party releases, saying: “One would hope, and certainly we’ve learnt an awful lot from the Driveclub experience, that those mistakes, once made, should not be repeated.”
