Why should they bother? The internet is apparently now full of raging assholes who white knight for these large corporations and call everyone who dares to expect a working product "entitled". It's all over every big forum, just as it was when FFXIV's problems were at their worst. There's no reason for anyone to ever argue with their bean counters about delivering far less server capacity than is actually needed for a service.
Nah, they said straight up there would be growing pains, and I'm fine with that. I don't think it has anything to do with them not wanting to spend money on it, its their first foray into such a large MMO type scape, there's going to be troubles. The thing is, I can't care because it costs me nothing. GTA Online is a free bonus for buying GTA 5, essentially.
September 25, 2013
The launch of Grand Theft Auto V's multiplayer component, Grand Theft Auto Online, is just a few days away and Rockstar Games gave a preview Wednesday of what players should expect at launch on Oct. 1. While discussing the features that will be available at launch the developer also warned PS3 and Xbox 360 gamers to expect growing pains.
GTA V has already had a bit of a rocky launch as buyers of the game have experienced issues connecting with the Rockstar Social Club and iFruit app. The developer says that this is due in part to the number of people trying to connect which it expects to be even worse when GTA Online launches.
"One thing we are already aware of, and are trying to alleviate as fast as we can, is the unanticipated additional pressure on the servers due to a significantly higher number of players than we were anticipating at this point - we are working around the clock to buy and add more servers, but this increased scale is only going to make the first few days even more temperamental than such things usually are," Rockstar wrote on its website.
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"There will be the typical growing pains for an online game, including but not limited to crashes, glitches, crazy bugs, gameplay modes and mechanics that need re-balancing and other surprises!" Rockstar explained.
"Even in GTAV Story Mode, some of you may have seen a few odd and even amusing little glitches out there last week. This sort of thing is inevitable in a massive open-world game and there'll surely be lots more unexpected oddities like this in the Online world next week - rest assured we'll be monitoring and actively doing all we can to smooth such things out as they happen, but we need your help to find them, as well as your feedback to help fine tune all of the game's systems so everything is perfectly balanced."
I had the same problem. Created my character, was picked up from the airport and then the street race was stuck on the loading screen for about 10 minutes. No big deal. I haven't beaten the story yet so maybe online will be stable by then.
Why, are you going to post some incredibly inane bullshit and out yourself as an extremely stupid bad?
Lulz, yes, a 38 meg patch is totally GTAO. My bad.
Got it. So what you're saying is that GTAO is 38 MB downloaded, andnoneof it is on my disc?
I'm saying that GTA Online is a fucking bonus MP tacked onto a single player game and that it wasn't even accessible when the game launched, so pretending you've been ripped off by not being able to access GTA Online the very second it comes online and play as if it has been running for a year worth of bug patches is a hysterical overreaction to the situation which cost you nothing more than what you would have paid anyway to buy GTA 5 whether it had a multiplayer component or not, as evidenced by the fact that you did buy the game a full two weeks before the online component became active, and almost certainly played a large portion if not all of the single player in the meantime.
Idiots like you are why consumer rights are being destroyed. It's product we bought and paid for and it's on the disc we own. It is not some free bonus and you are abad personfor thinking like you do.
