Gran Turismo 7 update 1.08 is live, and servers are back online

Gran Turismo 7 version 1.08 is live, and players can now access the single-player campaign and online modes after a long, unplanned outage.

Kazunori Yamauchi, producer of Gran Turismo and CEO of Polyphony Digital, posted an update apologising for the downtime, and promising future solutions to the current grind:

Also in this update, some event rewards have been adjusted. I wanted to also explain the reasons for it and our plans going forward.In GT7 I would like to have users enjoy lots of cars and races even without microtransactions.

At the same time the pricing of cars is an important element that conveys their value and rarity, so I do think it's important for it to be linked with the real world prices.

I want to make GT7 a game in which you can enjoy a variety of cars lots of different ways, and if possible would like to try to avoid a situation where a player must mechanically keep replaying certain events over and over again.We will in time let you know the update plans for additional content, additional race events and additional features that will constructively resolve this.

It pains me that I can’t explain the details regarding this at this moment, but we plan on continuing to revise GT7 so that as many players as possible can enjoy the game.

We would really appreciate it if everyone could watch over the growth of Gran Turismo 7 from a somewhat longer term point of view.