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Once the servers for Gran Turismo Sport go down, you won’t even be able to save your progress in the single player, either. There is no reason for single player stuff to be always online.

    • GrindingGears
      2·
      11 months ago

      Honestly they can just go ahead and turn off FM8. What a piece of shit that game is. It’s so bad. Like how can you literally fuck up a slam dunk that badly? They could have issued a slightly reskinned and updated FM7, and it would have been fine. But no.

      GT2 and FM2 (and FM4 I guess too) for the forever win!

      • hamburglar26@wilbo.tech
        2·
        11 months ago

        GT2 is ancient but the fact that I can play it on my Retroid Pocket anywhere and enjoy a stupid variety of cars, customization, tuning and racing fun has me always going back to it.

        Of all the Forza games, FM4 is pretty great and I haven’t liked any of the newer ones. I need to get my 360 back from my friend I loaned it to during Covid specifically to just play that one game. That was peak for that series I think but I haven’t played FM2.

        • GrindingGears
          1·
          11 months ago

          GT2 is getting a little tough on the eyes, but holy cow when that game came out was it ever the cars meow.

          FM2 is probably the same, it’s more nostalgia for me than anything. FM4 was pretty great too for sure. I have my 360 downstairs, but it’s unhooked at the moment. There’s pretty good emulation these days, you might be able to play it that way.

  • HisNoodlyServant@beehaw.org
    12·
    11 months ago

    There really needs to be more lawsuits for this type of thing. You bought something and they didn’t make it clear that you were renting it. I get the server stuff but you know what? After you are done with the game it’s time to allow the community to host servers or at least remove DRM for offline play.

  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    9·
    11 months ago

    Glad I picked up Assetto Corsa instead. That sim is 11 years old and has amazing graphics, a thriving community, and isn’t “always online”… GTS is only 6 years old in comparison.

    I think GTS and FMS are going to eventually be a struggle to sell once people catch on to the fact that these franchises are being turned into very expensive recurring game subscriptions, which is a shame given how much these types of games have been decreasing in popularity since the peak of the early 2000s