Perhaps it's down to fix the issues?

[Erebosgaminghd]

Anyone thought they might have listened to the community and shut the cloud servers down to resolve the character/item loss issue before it gets any worse?

 

 

Yes some people can play but their progress probably won't be tracked as the cloud service is offline.

 

 

So fingers crossed we might get some of our sh*t back tomorrow.

[hyseptik]

Anyone thought they might have listened to the community and shut the cloud servers down to resolve the character/item loss issue before it gets any worse?

 

 

Yes some people can play but their progress probably won't be tracked as the cloud service is offline.

 

 

So fingers crossed we might get some of our sh*t back tomorrow.

Such may be the case, but isn't it considered uh.. normal.. to keep players updated? No?

[Trololozilla]

Do you know what time they went down? I was pulling an all nighter up until 5 am and they were working fine before I slept.

[ComputerBlue]

If that's the case they would have released a statement. The servers are down because they went down from overload/rockstar not having a clue as to what they're doing when it comes to online as seen in such previous titles Max Payne 3, GTA4, RDR.

[Erebosgaminghd]

Do you know what time they went down? I was pulling an all nighter up until 5 am and they were working fine before I slept.

 

I logged off properly at 3am, decided to pop back on to tell a friend something and my character was lost so I would imagine at least 15 hours.

[Mrstealyohooker]

The only thing working for me right now is solo, can't join a session I get matchmaking error.

[GapingAngus]

Do you know what time they went down? I was pulling an all nighter up until 5 am and they were working fine before I slept.

I couldn't load jobs at 9:30 am EST. So its been at least 6 hours.

[Erebosgaminghd]

If that's the case they would have released a statement. The servers are down because they went down from overload/rockstar not having a clue as to what they're doing when it comes to online as seen in such previous titles Max Payne 3, GTA4, RDR.

 

Yeah but my brother works at Rock....nevermind you've all been lied to enough.

[Trololozilla]

 

Do you know what time they went down? I was pulling an all nighter up until 5 am and they were working fine before I slept.

 

I logged off properly at 3am, decided to pop back on to tell a friend something and my character was lost so I would imagine at least 15 hours.

 

You lost your character? Ouch, I hope I didn't lose mine.

[FlyThai]

Lol yeah lets do that on a Saturday where everyone has to work and no one has free time anyway....

[EASTC0AST_GH05T]

I think they are down from massive overload causing new issues.

[Erebosgaminghd]

I think they are down from massive overload causing new issues.

 

Hm, I suppose all we can do is speculate.

[Alendo]

Servers went down around 16 CET, I played perfectly up until then logged off, logged back on around 1630, that is, I tried, but to no avail since then, it's now past 22, so approx 6 hours...

[kopkiller666]

Do you know what time they went down? I was pulling an all nighter up until 5 am and they were working fine before I slept.

same. Now they don't work

[kotaco]

I'll just leave this here:

• GTA Online on PS3 has been down for part of today and we have been working with Sony to stabilize connection on that platform as quickly as possible. We are also very aware of the continued issues with loss of characters, money, rank, and items, and are focused on identifying the root causes and resolving the issue for players. More updates on that topic will be posted here: http://support.rockstargames.com/hc/en-us/articles/200435267-Loss-of-characters-rank-items-apartment...

[Rebellius555]

If Rockstar released a beta before launch everything would be working fine now.

 

Why can't they close GTAO for 2 days to fix and test sh*t instead of making people going nuts over lost characters, money and cars. I'm not sure but I think that people trying to play Online now make it even more difficult for R* to fix the problem.

[Hodgey.]

You can actually enter a 'invite only' or 'solo' session however all you can do is rob stores and mess about etc. You cant do races or missions etc.

[GrandTheftAuto...]

If Rockstar released a beta before launch everything would be working fine now.

 

Why can't they close GTAO for 2 days to fix and test sh*t instead of making people going nuts over lost characters, money and cars. I'm not sure but I think that people trying to play Online now make it even more difficult for R* to fix the problem.

There was a Beta. It's just you had no idea it had been going on for the past two weeks before launch.

[kotaco]

If Rockstar released a beta before launch everything would be working fine now.

 

Why can't they close GTAO for 2 days to fix and test sh*t instead of making people going nuts over lost characters, money and cars. I'm not sure but I think that people trying to play Online now make it even more difficult for R* to fix the problem.

Because in online games with high usage the issues don't tend to arise until the actual stress of use by millions of people at once, they need those people to play the game to see what the unforseen issues are and correct them.

 

The point of online Beta tests are indeed to help work on this issue ahead of time rather than actually test textures and bugs, which are usually dumbed down for betas anyway. You should consider this the beta test as it's only version 1.0, it's more of a Release Candidate (RC) which will transform into a stable version as the bugs are worked out with the help of players connecting.

[FrozenInferno]

Do you know what time they went down? I was pulling an all nighter up until 5 am and they were working fine before I slept.

 

If the cloud stopped working while you were online playing you wouldn't have noticed any difference in the gameplay, the problem is your game will stop saving as long as the cloud servers are down so let's say they went down at 3AM and you played until 5AM, you will very likely lose anything you did in the two hours the cloud was down even though you were still playing the game because there is no server online to accept your save data.

 

My belief is there are two different types of servers at work here, one that you actually play on and one that saves your data remotely. When you try to log on the first time the game *should* check to make sure both servers are working and allow you to sign on, but once you are online playing the cloud only comes into play when it comes time to save and Rockstar hasn't incorporated any type of notification to tell players when it stops working. This allows people to keep playing through game servers without having any idea the cloud isn't saving your game. If the cloud shuts down it should automatically kick all players out of the game and prevent people from continuing and wasting their time on progress that won't be saved.

 

It is a major oversight on Rockstar's part not to notify us when the cloud is down and we're wasting our time. Most people won't realize it happened until they see it on a forum like this or open their game to see progress is missing.