Having trouble with the single player component in your copy of Gran Turismo 5? Well, you're not alone. Gaming blog Kotaku reports that GT5 owners across the globe are facing inexplicable slowdown and menu freezing in the single player as well as the multiplayer part of the game. The culprit? According to Polyphony Digital, the "extreme online traffic congestion" is the root of the GT5 woes.Before any of you hit the reply button asking how that would affect the single player mode, it is because the game accesses online content even during the load screens and game start up. The solution is to yank off your Internet connectivity to force the game into the offline mode. Sony has taken contingency measures by removing user access to logs and preventing changes to profile and friend lists, till they resolve the issue.
A major franchise like GT5 imploding under the weight of its online users within the first week is bad enough, but letting that affect the single player mode is damning design flaw of the highest order. This makes one wonder what the six long years of development were spent on.
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