Gran Turismo 7 is fully playable again after server problems cut off major features for more than 24 hours

Gran Turismo 7, one of the biggest PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 releases of the year so far, suffered through server maintenance for over a day because of an issue found with the game's latest update. Due to an issue found with Update 1.07, we are extending the current server maintenance period," reads a notice on the Gran Turismo website from Thursday morning. We will confirm the completion time as soon as possible."
On Friday morning, a 354MB 1.08 patch was released and has been downloaded by players on PS5 and PS4 systems. However, even after downloading it and waiting through a lengthy installation/copying process, the game still wouldn't connect to its servers. We tried it on our systems and could confirm it still showed an...