Hi everyone,

I wanted to provide you with the latest update on DRIVECLUB. Unfortunately, the road to launch has been a little rocky, and we are truly sorry that so many of you have not been able to enjoy everything that we had hoped DRIVECLUB would deliver.

We have been listening to your feedback and realize that patience understandably is running out. Evo is working around the clock to close the gap, and we have deployed additional engineering resources to help resolve the remaining issues as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the time frames required to roll out the fully connected experience will be longer than anticipated and we do not have an exact time frame for when they will be resolved. We will continue to update you on progress and you can find the latest info on the DRIVECLUB Facebook page.

We are also very conscious that we have disappointed so many of you who were looking forward to playing the promised PS Plus Edition. Our first priority is to provide you with the best possible experience while playing DRIVECLUB. With the high volume of new players and additional server load the PS Plus Edition is anticipated to bring, we are currently not confident that we can guarantee the best online experience. Until we can ensure that everyone can enjoy the full social connected online experience, we will be postponing the release of the PS Plus Edition until further notice.

On behalf of WWS we are enormously grateful for your patience and we thank you for the continued support and encouragement. Again, we sincerely apologize for the delay. We are committed to giving you the best racing experience on PS4 – it’s taking a little longer than we hoped.

Thanks,

Shu

hi everyone,
the team at evolution continues to work diligently to resolve all of the server issues. We know you have all been extremely patient and understandably frustrated during driveclub’s launch, and to show our appreciation for the support during this challenging time, we will be offering the premium dlc packs for november (25th november-scea/26th november-scee/27th november-scej) free to those who purchased the full game.
these premium dlc packs – the ignition expansion pack and photo-finish tour pack along with two livery packs – will give you a total of five new cars, 22 new tour events, 10 new trophies and 10 new livery items to play with online and offline.
The season pass will be extended to include four extra packs in july 2015 to ensure players who purchased the pass get everything that was promised. So on top of the free dlc in november, the season pass will still include 38 cars, 176 tour events and 80 unique liveries.
On tuesday we will also be releasing our next game update which includes our first round of player requested feature updates.
In addition to photo mode, which will allow you to share your most thrilling moments with your friends, we will be adding:
• improved multiplayer collision physics to reduce frustrating spin-outs
• adjustments to soften the corner cutting penalty system
• options in the club menu to view everything your club has unlocked
• a fix to allow all club owners to update their club badges
this update also includes the first new tracks, which we announced back in september as part of our plans to keep supporting and expanding the game as you play. These include the following free new tracks for online and offline play (also playable in reverse):
• india – yedepalli
• scotland – wester ross
• chile – los pelambres
although currently we do not have an update regarding the timing for the launch of the ps plus edition, we are continually working on improving the server capacity to enable us to launch the ps plus edition as quickly as possible.
once again, thank you for your support. We are truly sorry that the road to delivering the full driveclub racing experience on ps4 has been such a rocky one.