Gran Turismo 7 servers are back up following extended maintenance

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Gran Turismo 7 servers are back online, after an extended maintenance period kept it offline for over 24 hours. Developer Polyphony Digital announced it has issued Update 1.08, after discovering a rare issue before the release of 1.07.

Yesterday, Polyphony Digital announced it was extending server maintenance, with no completion time set. “Due to an issue found with Update 1.07, we are extending the current server maintenance period,” the update reads. “We will confirm the completion time as soon as possible. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and ask for your patience while we work to resolve the issue.”

Due to an issue found in Update 1.07, we will be extending the Server Maintenance period. We will notify everyone as soon as possible when this is likely to be completed. We apologize for this inconvenience and ask for your patience while we work to resolve the issue. #GT7

— Gran Turismo (@thegranturismo) March 17, 2022

Polyphony CEO Kazunori Yamauchi addressed the maintenance in an update on the Gran Turismo 7 site.

“Immediately before the release of the 1.07 update, we discovered an issue where the game would not start properly in some cases on product versions for the PS4 and PS5,” writes Yamauchi. “This was a rare issue that was not seen during tests on the development hardware or the QA sessions prior to the release, but in order to prioritize the safety of the save data of the users, we decided to interrupt the release of the 1.07 update, and to make a 1.08 correctional update.”

Several facets of Gran Turismo 7, including single-players modes like the campaign, require a connection to GT7‘s servers. Players were posting about the outages, as well as concerns about the in-game economy, on forums like