The online PVP races are non existent. Joining a lobby is a guarantee to sit there with your thumb up your backside waiting for nothing, for nigh infinity. Ranked matches, unranked matches, doesn't matter. Reports also of The Crew's "Crew" system, the ability to group up with four of your friends or total strangers, is also entirely useless. I tried in vain to join the crew of a friend last night, only for us to be parked next to one another, hitting the accept crew invite button, to no avail. Then the instance died and I was suddenly by myself. That's another issue. You're supposed to always be surrounded by other players. However due to the shoddy connection system to the master servers, most of the time it's just you by your lonesome or maybe 1 to 2 other people. For a game that's trying to be a MMO-CAR-PG, it doesn't feel like an MMO. It feels like a poorly net coded racing game.
The foundation, the game play, is totally solid. As a multiplayer game though, it is utterly borked, and unplayable even. The PC version reportedly is more stable currently, and if that's the truth, then I feel really bad for anyone who has this on console.
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