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Its 3 AM PST, is too many people playing still the excuse?


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CharlieSheem

Well, people have probably slowed down on trying to play because of all the glitches.

 

Now heres my question, during the day and around launch I felt that OK, their servers are being hammered because its launch day, and launch afternoon.

 

But now its officially the next day, and it's late at night. I'm guessing probably 40% or less of the people that were playing or trying to play are doing so right now, meaning their servers probably have much much much less load than they did earlier today.

 

But guess what...THE GAMES STILL f*ckED? Can't start the first race still, after not trying for a good 12 hours.

 

So yeah, I think these problems are much more than too many people trying to play. Most people are sleeping right now.

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Yeah I did the same but.. If the servers are down, the servers are down. Rockstar has nothing to do with it, you don't blame your cab driver for their car breaking down... Do you?

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Agreed, I mean look at their updates.. Like "we're aware of some issues" and then FIFTEEN HOURS later, "we're working around the clock" - still no information. Reminds me of the whole "Just routine maintenance, we'll be back up in a day" - Sony 2011

 

For sure, this is much more than just servers being overloaded. Theres no way that the traffic right now is even close to earlier in the afternoon. But still no improvement, that's a really bad sign.

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Yeah I did the same but.. If the servers are down, the servers are down. Rockstar has nothing to do with it, you don't blame your cab driver for their car breaking down... Do you?

 

It didn't say anything about the servers being down. It says something about "Launching session" when I try to start the first race vs Lamar.

 

Obviously the server can't be down because my character loaded.

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Yeah, because there's only one place in all the many time zones that are trying to play the game. That's how the world works.

Also: Working round the clock does not mean giving constant updates. It means working until it's fixed then giving an update.

 

FFS.

Signatures are dumb anyway.

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Yeah, because there's only one place in all the many time zones that are trying to play the game. That's how the world works.

Also: Working round the clock does not mean giving constant updates. It means working until it's fixed then giving an update.

 

FFS.

 

The traffic from countires besides US won't compare. If they can't handle times of day when most people in the US are asleep, their servers either suck ass or these bugs are not connection related.

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I was one of the first log-ins I think.. Got trough the race and even a "world record" at the time then I crashed later.. I only made it to level 6 or so.

Started a 2nd character just to test some things out and haven't been able to get through the race with him.

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Yeah, because there's only one place in all the many time zones that are trying to play the game. That's how the world works.

Also: Working round the clock does not mean giving constant updates. It means working until it's fixed then giving an update.

 

FFS.

 

This. I really want to believe that not all Americans are so self centred and globally unaware - but the internet dashes my hopes every time :D

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Im so angry! So many problems with my SP aswell.. So f*cking glitched..

 

No sharks, no other divers, cant complete 100% as some missions just don't show up.

 

And now this f*cking sh*t, and R* goes silent at the same time..

 

Dammit, R* have turned into every other developer... Feel like ive been conned..

 

And I honestly do not care if people do not like my rant! I paid for this game, SP did not work and now MP, I have my full rights to freaking rant!!!

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Yeah I did the same but.. If the servers are down, the servers are down. Rockstar has nothing to do with it, you don't blame your cab driver for their car breaking down... Do you?

 

It didn't say anything about the servers being down. It says something about "Launching session" when I try to start the first race vs Lamar.

 

Obviously the server can't be down because my character loaded.

 

Yeah Its a shame you have to do the race first, because a mate of mine, same area, xbox live, managed to get past the race part 15 mins before me, and once done, yes the heists/races etc were dodgey, by he could mess around in free roam, which is all I wanted for now really.

that launching game and waiting for other players was quite annoying. I left it after a while, but when it sits and waits, and doesn't say, servers full, or boots you out, you don't really know where you stand with it.

And this isn't me bitching cause I knew it would be like it, just annoying a mate was there, and I couldn't get to that point!!

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So their servers being f*cked when most people in the US are sleeping still makes sense because there are other countires in the world?

 

No.

 

The traffic right now is nothing compared to earlier on the 1st. And still unplayable.

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Yeah, because there's only one place in all the many time zones that are trying to play the game. That's how the world works.

Also: Working round the clock does not mean giving constant updates. It means working until it's fixed then giving an update.

 

FFS.

 

The traffic from countires besides US won't compare. If they can't handle times of day when most people in the US are asleep, their servers either suck ass or these bugs are not connection related.

You just said it's not about the servers are you knowingly trolling or you clutching at straws because that contradictory..

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CharlieSheem

If they can't handle traffic even when most people in the US are sleeping, I have no hope that the game will be playable tomorrow...when all those people wake up and hammer the servers trying to play again.

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The problem is that this project is way bigger than anything they've done before. Internal testing is just not enough, even FPS run public betas nowadays.

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I have no proof but I heard they have hired a lot more people before release to sort these servers, so we know they are trying. As people said if it was certain other companies we'd be waiting till Christmas to be told..

I hope its true cause I wanna shoot some peeps

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To whoever compared this with a cab drivers car breaking down, yes I would blame the driver for that because before he goes out for his rounds he should be looking at it and making sure things are good to go. As well as the regular maintainers on the vehicles that should be doing good inspections throughout the week. So yea I would blame him.

 

As for the server stuff. Rockstar being new to the whole online thing shouldbe no excuse for this. Honestly II'm not mad that stuff is going wrong because it was pretty predictable. What I'm mad about isbthat they haven't said anything as to what the problems are. Give us some info. And if it is really that they have to buy more servers well then they dropped the ball and are still laughing to the bank. I dunno ima try again next week and hopefully I can play. I kind of feel that free dlc would be nice. Didnt EA do that for simcity's f*ck ups. And ea is the worst company in the industry.

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Fuzzknuckles

There is just no reasoning with idiots, it seems.

Signatures are dumb anyway.

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Whelp ... Remember this ... Your always welcomed to go back and "have a blast" on Gta 4 online ^_^

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Yeah, because there's only one place in all the many time zones that are trying to play the game. That's how the world works.

Also: Working round the clock does not mean giving constant updates. It means working until it's fixed then giving an update.

 

FFS.

 

The traffic from countires besides US won't compare.

 

Are you for real?

 

Europe is pretty much in the same time zones... when europ is awake and playing there wont be many less/more then in Usa...

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Im so angry! So many problems with my SP aswell.. So f*cking glitched..

 

No sharks, no other divers, cant complete 100% as some missions just don't show up.

 

And now this f*cking sh*t, and R* goes silent at the same time..

 

Dammit, R* have turned into every other developer... Feel like ive been conned..

 

And I honestly do not care if people do not like my rant! I paid for this game, SP did not work and now MP, I have my full rights to freaking rant!!!

If your SP works badly than you better check out what's going with the cd or the console because mine worked fine...

 

OP: This is beyond some server issues and I'm starting to get worired, I'd like to play online (without crashing) this week

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The game is glitched. Even trying to do the tutorial in solo mode it won't load. Patch 2 incoming.

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if everybody keeps trying and trying till 3 am it will never work.

 

give it a rest, YOU are the server overload....

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CharlieSheem

if everybody keeps trying and trying till 3 am it will never work.

 

give it a rest, YOU are the server overload....

 

I stopped trying for 12 hours after like 3 or 4 attempts lol...didn't read my post.

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Im so angry! So many problems with my SP aswell.. So f*cking glitched..

 

No sharks, no other divers, cant complete 100% as some missions just don't show up.

 

And now this f*cking sh*t, and R* goes silent at the same time..

 

Dammit, R* have turned into every other developer... Feel like ive been conned..

 

And I honestly do not care if people do not like my rant! I paid for this game, SP did not work and now MP, I have my full rights to freaking rant!!!

If your SP works badly than you better check out what's going with the cd or the console because mine worked fine...

 

OP: This is beyond some server issues and I'm starting to get worired, I'd like to play online (without crashing) this week

 

 

Same here, since most can't progress in rank ect right now, any bugs they fix now could show up in new ways in some of the mid/late rank content/missions. We'll see I guess.

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Yeah, because there's only one place in all the many time zones that are trying to play the game. That's how the world works.

Also: Working round the clock does not mean giving constant updates. It means working until it's fixed then giving an update.

 

FFS.

 

The traffic from countires besides US won't compare.

 

Are you for real?

 

Europe is pretty much in the same time zones... when europ is awake and playing there wont be many less/more then in Usa...

 

 

Exactly the point I was making.

 

But it seems OP had the chant "MURICA MURICA MURICA" going round and round in his head, so loud that he forgot that there are several billion people in the world that don't live in America.

 

I'm willing to bet real, cold hard CASH MONEY that some of those people outside of America have bought GTA and are trying to get online. Potentially, there might be more than 7 of them. It's incredible, I know.

Signatures are dumb anyway.

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Yeah, because there's only one place in all the many time zones that are trying to play the game. That's how the world works.

Also: Working round the clock does not mean giving constant updates. It means working until it's fixed then giving an update.

 

FFS.

 

The traffic from countires besides US won't compare.

 

Are you for real?

 

Europe is pretty much in the same time zones... when europ is awake and playing there wont be many less/more then in Usa...

 

 

Exactly the point I was making.

 

But it seems OP had the chant "MURICA MURICA MURICA" going round and round in his head, so loud that he forgot that there are several billion people in the world that don't live in America.

 

I'm willing to bet real, cold hard CASH MONEY that some of those people outside of America have bought GTA and are trying to get online. Potentially, there might be more than 7 of them. It's incredible, I know.

 

 

Let me explain something in a way that is more clear for you..

 

First off it is delusional to think that GTA 5 didn't sell more in the US than any other country. I can assure you it made up for atleast 40-50% of the $800 million in profit they made on day one. Their marketing campaign was also more focused on the US, even putting up large murals in major US locations like Times Square NYC (That's not cheap.) 8000 stores in the US were open at midnight, most had dozens, or even hundreds of customers. And that's just the stores that opened at midnight.

 

So my point is that GTA 5 made more in the US than any other country, I am sure. Next would be the UK, but I would expect they had atleast half the sales of the US.

 

Now, right now (4AM) there is a major dip in US traffic/people playing Xbox. Makes sense, they are sleeping.

 

So, despite the fact that the country that has sold the most copies doesn't have nearly as many people trying to play right now compared to earlier, the servers are still showing connectivity issues. So, how will this possibly be better tomorrow, when millions of people in the US are awake and trying to play?

 

My main point is this: Rockstar not only can't handle the amount of server load required for GTAO, but they aren't even close to being able to support the amount of people that bought the game.

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By the way I noticed Rockstar is picking up major heat from media right now, MSNBC (owned by Microsoft) which is a large US news company just posted an article about all the issues, wasn't a good one. Forbes also posted an article, ABC News probably will too.

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It can't be server overload on PS3 because there's no-one playing it to overload them. The problem is with the patch. I have given up playing GTA V altogether until 1.02

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