{"id":536783,"date":"2026-03-08T04:07:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T04:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2194693"},"modified":"2026-03-08T04:07:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T04:07:26","slug":"gran-turismo-7-review-bombed-as-extended-maintenance-drags-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/gran-turismo-7-review-bombed-as-extended-maintenance-drags-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Gran Turismo 7 review bombed as extended maintenance drags on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gran-turismo-7-review-bombed-as-extended-maintenance-drags-on.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gran Turismo 7 went dark yesterday as servers went offline for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2022-03-17-gran-turismo-7-offline-due-to-patch-1-07-issue\">scheduled maintenance that was then extended until further notice<\/a>. This maintenance is still on going more than 24 hours later, locking people out of the game. <\/p>\n<p>As a result, many have taken to social media platforms and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/game\/playstation-5\/gran-turismo-7\/user-reviews?sort-by=date&amp;num_items=100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Metacritic<\/a> to voice their grievances.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2022-03-18-gran-turismo-7-is-getting-review-bombed-following-extended-period-of-maintenance\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2022-03-18-gran-turismo-7-is-getting-review-bombed-following-extended-period-of-maintenance\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gran Turismo 7 went dark yesterday as servers went offline for scheduled maintenance that was then extended until further notice. This maintenance is still on going more than 24 hours later, locking people out of the game. As a result, many have taken to social media platforms and Metacritic to voice their grievances. Read more Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":536784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gran Turismo 7 review bombed as extended maintenance drags on | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gran Turismo 7 went dark yesterday as servers went offline for scheduled maintenance that was then extended until further notice. 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