Don’t fear about making progress in Gran Turismo 7 this weekend — after greater than a day, the prolonged upkeep downtime is over. The racing sim’s important on-line part is again on-line after Polyphony Digital resolved points with the flawed 1.07 replace by releasing 1.08 to players. As studio chief Kazunori Yamauchi explained, the sooner patch had a “rare” and beforehand undetected drawback that prevented the sport from beginning correctly for some PS4 and PS5 house owners. The firm determined to halt the 1.07 launch to guard gamers’ save knowledge, Yamauchi stated.

The 1.08 replace additionally tackles complaints about Gran Turismo 7 microtransactions by adjusting occasion rewards. While Yamauchi needs in-game automobile costs to bear some correlation to their real-world counterparts, he additionally needs gamers to benefit from the title with out microtransactions or grinding some occasions “over and over again.” There may even be extra content material, occasions and options to “constructively resolve” gripes about real-money purchases, the manager stated, though particulars aren’t but accessible.

The return will possible be appreciated by followers who’ve wished to dive into Gran Turismo 7‘s predominant GT mode, which wants an web connection whether or not or not you are enjoying with others. However, it additionally comes too late to keep away from some harm to the sport’s repute. Users have been review-bombing the sport all through the downtime, and it now sits at 3.3 on Metacritic. Like it or not, Polyphony and Sony could need to rebuild the belief of lovers burned by the outage.