Is this the real cause of our missing characters?

[untichrist]

Why the hell did Xbox make it a free xbla weekend within less than a week after gta online was released...

[OhhPaigey]

 

 

I was not trolling. Rockstar likely had their own internal QA dept doing full-time testing as well as possible outsourcing through other companies, given the scale of the game. I highly doubt these issues were not present in earlier builds when doing stress testing.

I'm sure, every game has internal testing, but that doesn't get you very far in this day and age. Especially with this scale of game, they had all this time since they started creating the game, plus 2 weeks after the game launched to figure out these problems, and now we have characters that are guys with breasts, characters randomly vanishing, servers crashing, people floating in mid air, the "Retry" button possibly erasing your characters, tons of mission and robbery glitches and exploits, people being able to sell their cars unlimited times, this really seems like an unpolished game as far as the online aspect of it goes.

 

A group of what? 40-50 internal testers is nothing compared to millions of people all around the world. This is why when you hype a game up this much, you release a beta so the launch is smoother.

 

except these arent all heavy load problems. This guy is right. There is no way they "accidentally missed" these issues. Time out issues are ALWAYS tested online, and disconnects too. You're going to tell me during the entire time they "beta" tested this game, nobody thought "I wonder what happens if the internet goes out"...? This isint even the cause of my issue, but how many people have gotten stuck in a loading screen? Thats from timing out. How many people have gotten "kicked from online"? Chances are, thats a disconnect.

 

Rockstar had to of known alot of these problems, and just assumed it wouldnt effect the majority.

 

If some people got f*cked, appearently that was okay to RS.

 

If that's what you believe, then go for it.

[XxX19Dude95XxX]

im so happy my character is still around down a few levels but still around

[bayz101]

I walked into my garage and it wouldn't load. Sat there for about 20 minutes and was forced to quit game via the XMB. Came back and character was missing.

[theENIGMATRON]

I think the problem is do with with loosing connection to the Cloud server.

 

You have two Character slots.

I use the Right slot of my MAIN Character, and the left slow if i ever have to create a new one.

 

I think if they move servers etc and it cannot locate you Character, and you recreate one over the same slot as you main, Then it will upload that character to the Cloud overwriting your Main Char.

 

I have not lost my Character yet using my method. Touch WOOD!!

[BurnCK]

It has nothing to do with how you exit the game or anything else like that. That could only possibly affect saving your character. Turning off your console mid game won't cause a deletion of data if the data isn't stored on your own console.

[Hallgarth]

A lot of people seem to think that disappearing characters is down to only one thing. I think it's a multitude of things. Pressing retry when the cloud is gone. Switching off the console when it goes into an infinite DOWNLOADING. The servers syncing wrong and erasing characters.

Some people end up with a corrupted character that is a guy with headphones, or a wierd woman. I think this is corruption of the data pertaining to the appearance of the character. If this can happen, who's to say that corruption cannot also happen where the data that identifies the character as being yours is corrupted. The character is still on the cloud, but it no longer is connected to your account.

 

GTA:O is a mess, and those that aren't having issues are very lucky. Until it's fixed you simply have to accept that your character/appearance of character may disappear/be corrupted. R* clearly don't know what they are doing. they haven't tried anything quite like this before.

[Lukezordz]

Yes to number 2, but they've always come back.

[BurnCK]

Just because it hasn't been fixed yet doesn't mean R* don't know what they're doing. I don't think some of you quite understand quite what's involved in resolving these sort of issues, especially on this scale.

 

Internal procedures of the company will still have to followed which will include investigation, solutions, user-acceptance testing, sign-off, roll-out.

 

Think some of you just expect a flick of a switch and it's done.