Sony closes Evolution Studios (DriveClub)

[Fatboi1]

I seen nikkas shyt on the damn whole Street Fighter franchise on here. This is supposed to be a gaming forum? shyt is getting worse than The Booth. Bunch of people who don't play games bytchin and moaning. The shyt used to be funny atleast. Now it's gone to down right delusional.

Some dudes be making shock posts just to stir shyt up.

 

[Regular_P]

Impossible not to have a thread derailed in here. :kobewhatever:

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Sucks. Driveclub was great

So great the studio that created it was shut down.

The delusion is real

 

[Zebruh]

Wasn't most of yall nikkas talking about how Drive Club was better than Forza, this and that a couple years ago?
I may own a PS4 but it's so funny watching how it outsold X1 by millions but still has really had no success, from a quality of games standpoint. Fanboys really don't even argue much anymore lol

nikkas really thought Driveclub had a chance, even after the rocky launch debacle(which was a big hype point), against the Forza franchise. I sometimes wonder about nikkas in this forum. It's not even funny anymore, nikkas just be saying stuff solely because it's the opposition. Driveclub was never going to beat any decent racer head to head. I was saying it before launch and I hold steadfast to that belief.

What were the critiques of DriveClub? I love the game.

It doesn't do anything better than any of the other games in its genre, when it's all said and done.

 

[Fatboi1]

nikkas really thought Driveclub had a chance, even after the rocky launch debacle(which was a big hype point), against the Forza franchise. I sometimes wonder about nikkas in this forum. It's not even funny anymore, nikkas just be saying stuff solely because it's the opposition. Driveclub was never going to beat any decent racer head to head. I was saying it before launch and I hold steadfast to that belief.

Nobody was sayin Driveclub was going to "beat" Forza commercially, that's just some shyt dude you quoted made up to somehow feel good about his stannery in this thread. The company(Evolution) has had some trouble I guess since last gen and this time was the nail in the coffin. It most likely wasn't worth money to pump into a company after what's happened thus far.

It doesn't do anything better than any of the other games in its genre, when it's all said and done.

I'm QUITE sure you and many others who say this probably didn't even play it to say so. The game IS good, don't let this news somehow make you think it's a bad game and saying it doesn't do things better than what's out isn't the point and that's subjective. I think it's a far better game than say NFS Rivals or that last shyt that came out.

I can't take anyone's opinion on DC seriously when they probably never played it for more than 10 minutes or they last played it back damn year 2 years ago. shyt went through a lot of updates and post launch support/DLC.

I don't care for sim racers like GT or Project Cars so something like DC with it's emphasis on great tracks, beautiful graphics, amazing car sounds etc could be what people like it for. Playing something like Project Cars is imo boring because it doesn't capture that adrenaline.

You dudes just can't accept that some people prefer this game and somehow if anyone says so, their trolling or their just delusional. No, some people just like the game man and the game is much better than what some reviews from OCT 2014 say.

 

[Fatboi1]

So great the studio that created it was shut down.

The delusion is real

Lionheads studios is about to close down and Fable Legends got cancelled, going by this logic Fable series is garbage and anyone who enjoys it is delusional and "hahaha" right?

 

[B86]

Impossible not to have a thread derailed in here. :kobewhatever:

Then move around, hoe

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Lionheads studios is about to closed down and Fable Legends got cancelled, going by this logic Fable series is garbage and anyone who enjoys it is delusional and "hahaha" right?

Apparently the game they were working on was trash, with very little interest from gamers.

That's why they closed. Why is it so hard for you to accept the reality about DriveClub?

Its literally the worst AAA racing game on the market, its great that you had fun with it, but the game is objectively worse than its competitors.

And that's without even talking about all the dysfunction at evolution

 

[Fatboi1]

Apparently the game they were working on was trash, with very little interest from gamers.

Ok.

That's why they closed. Why is it so hard for you to accept the reality about DriveClub?
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The realitiy of it being a hindrance to Sony and it's launch debacle isn't the same as

Its literally the worst AAA racing game on the market, its great that you had fun with it, but the game is objectively worse than its competitors.
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this.

Saying it's the worst AAA racing game on the market and saying it's objectively worse than it's competitors is straight up trolling. I'm sure you NEVER played it aside from some Best Buy demo and as usual you just watched videos and are commenting about it from what you read online. Lemme guess, because it has a 71 Metacritic from launch means it's the exact same game today huh? shyt was a GREAT game with lots of post launch support.

And that's without even talking about all the dysfunction at evolution
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THAT and them weighing their options and seeing they have GT around means Evolution isn't needed. Their last games didn't sell well and had issues, Driveclub was a huge PR blunder(Delayed for a year, releases to mediocre reviews with network issues, botched PS+ release etc.) They turned it around and delivered a solid game months later but by then the damage was done. Sony decided they don't need to be around anymore. Framing this story as if Driveclub came out and because it had a 71 on MC and wasn't as reviewed well as other games then they somehow decided to shut down.

 

[x2y]

Sad news hopefully these people find a new job soon. Also Driveclub ended up being pretty good game after the disastrous launch.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Ok.


The realitiy of it being a hindrance to Sony and it's launch debacle isn't the same as

this.

Saying it's the worst AAA racing game on the market and saying it's objectively worse than it's competitors is straight up trolling. I'm sure you NEVER played it aside from some Best Buy demo and as usual you just watched videos and are commenting about it from what you read online. Lemme guess, because it has a 71 Metacritic from launch means it's the exact same game today huh? shyt was a GREAT game with lots of post launch support.

Has nothing to do with metacritc. Its a bad racing game. Remember the servers didn't break until AFTER most reviews were out. So the game was severely flawed without the server problems. Adding a bunch of content does not fix the shortcomings of the game.

THAT and them weighing their options and seeing they have GT around means Evolution isn't needed.

so a studio releases a game over a year late, and the game gets trashed in reviews, and doesn't sell well, and you think sony closed them simply because "they didn't need them"

So you think if driveclub was a hit critically and commercially they would have still been closed?

Be in denial brehs

 

[Fatboi1]

Has nothing to do with metacritc. Its a bad racing game.

I'll just stop here I already see where this is going. There's no conversation to be had with you. First you were trying to defend garbage ass Halo 5 in that other thread and now you're here.

 

[spliz]

Has nothing to do with metacritc. Its a bad racing game. Remember the servers didn't break until AFTER most reviews were out. So the game was severely flawed without the server problems. Adding a bunch of content does not fix the shortcomings of the game.




so a studio releases a game over a year late, and the game gets trashed in reviews, and doesn't sell well, and you think sony closed them simply because "they didn't need them"

So you think if driveclub was a hit critically and commercially they would have still been closed?

Be in denial brehs

fukk outta here fam it's not a bad racing game. Anyone who's spent time with the game in the last year or so would know that.

 

[Heelmatic]

Has nothing to do with metacritc. Its a bad racing game. Remember the servers didn't break until AFTER most reviews were out. So the game was severely flawed without the server problems. Adding a bunch of content does not fix the shortcomings of the game.




so a studio releases a game over a year late, and the game gets trashed in reviews, and doesn't sell well, and you think sony closed them simply because "they didn't need them"

So you think if driveclub was a hit critically and commercially they would have still been closed?

Be in denial brehs

It's definitely not the worst racing game out there bruh come on now. Better than both NFS's, Project Cars & The Crew.

What makes the game bad in your opinion?

 

[Fatboi1]

It's definitely not the worst racing game out there bruh come on now. Better than both NFS's, Project Cars & The Crew.

What makes the game bad in your opinion?

To save you time:
He's going to post critiques he's saw online from forums and reviews back from 2014
and because it's a PS4 game, he doesn't like it.