yeah, sean is right. you were promised MP from get-go. This is not something that is given freely. You purchased the feature knowing that it will be delivered to you in time.
This analogy totally fails in other genres, so why is it acceptable in GTA? I mean, if I buy any FPS game (CoD, BF4, Halo) and the multiplayer opens buggy 2 weeks later, am I allowed to be upset?
Yes, there was. It was all on the disc to begin with. It's a feature they advertised as part of selling you GTA5 and a major part of their ad and trailer campaign. They simply didn't bring the servers up till today. It is not now and has never has been a separate product. You cannot get GTAO without buying the GTA5 disc, it is part of the data you own.
Yup.
More inane anti-consumer rights toadie drivel. Suits must love empty-headed people like you.
What? That's silly. If you're seriously falling back on "well the EULA gives them this power," you're on the losing side of the argument. Regardless of what the EULA empowers these companies to do, consumers will still be upset. WoW could shut down all its servers tomorrow and not issue any refunds if it wanted to (it's in the EULA) - doesn't mean consumers wouldn't be pissed off.
Yeah, there was. It's on the box. "FEATURING GRAND THEFT AUTO ONLINE" in big letters on the back. Now, that might not be a "legally binding EULA promise," but I think it'sreasonableto expect that product to be delivered in the way that Rockstar said it would.
Product I paid for still isn't working 2 weeks later, any sane person would be annoyed. Are you not sane?
You're asking the wrong question.
You're paying a sub to WoW and, again, their EULA actually states that service is not guaranteed. In fact, Blizzard is a great example of exactly my point. Their service is down (or was when I played) once a week for over 8 hours. Then there's been long outages over the years. Since people were paying, Blizzard would issue refunds in the form of extra game time. But there's nothing to be refunded here. You didn't pay for GTA Online. You paid for GTA 5. GTA online is free. And you're here crying you can't play it the second it goes live because the stress from all you people trying to play it the second it goes live leads to errors that aren't possible to stress test outside of the live environment.
You mean like how they explicitly asked people to bear with them while they underwent these growing pains?
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No I think I asked the right question.
