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xXRobbie98Xx

It could be. I think in just about every DLC or new content that rockstar has released for GTA has brought some sort of problems to the game. Like I've said before, rockstar can't seem to do anything right. So what happens when the game's most anticipated and possibly the best DLC arrives? I'm talking about the heists of coarse and of coarse they don't work! Sure I can understand there's probably about 20% of the community who can play this game fine but all I've experienced and I know lots of others have in the last couple of days is "Timed Out" or "The Rockstar Services are Unavailable" or some other crap I get fed everytime I try to join a server or do a heist. I think this is it. I reckon people will just stop playing this game altogether because quite frankly, it's crap, total crap. Oh yeah nice, heists? How about you fix the bloody game before your release them, twats.

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ScarecrowES

I have a great broadband connection... or at least it's fast enough and reliable enough to almost never let me down with anything I want to do... except play GTA Online. Getting into missions, or hell, even staying online for more than 10 minutes at a time is next to impossible on a good day. Since the update, it's even worse. Right now, I can't even log in... keeps timing out.

 

Getting into heists is ridiculously difficult. Getting people to join your heist hosting session so... you know... you don't immediately lose progress right after a mission is also next to impossible. I know most people are out there playing heists right now, so finding 3 other people to do a mission shouldn't be hard, but the game only wants to invite the 5 other people in my session. This game is so stupid sometimes.

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xXRobbie98Xx

I have a great broadband connection... or at least it's fast enough and reliable enough to almost never let me down with anything I want to do... except play GTA Online. Getting into missions, or hell, even staying online for more than 10 minutes at a time is next to impossible on a good day. Since the update, it's even worse. Right now, I can't even log in... keeps timing out.

 

Getting into heists is ridiculously difficult. Getting people to join your heist hosting session so... you know... you don't immediately lose progress right after a mission is also next to impossible. I know most people are out there playing heists right now, so finding 3 other people to do a mission shouldn't be hard, but the game only wants to invite the 5 other people in my session. This game is so stupid sometimes.

Yes I'm in the same boat as you. Even before the heists I would join a server and find myself getting kicked "due to unknown error" about 15 minutes later. And now that the heists are out if I'm lucky enough to get into a server, it's a server with about 5 people who don't join your heist invites. I also apparently don't have any matched players when I click "invite from matched players". Edited by xXRobbie98Xx
Gareth Alan Willmer

The funny thing is they never even added an optional single player version of the heists and extra content. They could of used the AI system for the other people involved and used storyline characters from the previous heists in single player.

 

This would of removed the stress on the servers and could of avoided this disaster.

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I actually am starting to think its not R*'s fault (ikr). I was home sick today (I was actually sick, stomach flu) and at around 10am - 2pm eastern time I could access GTA Online with no issues at all. At around after 2pm et however, the servers started to get slow and I could barely access GTA Online. At around 2pm et, most kids at the USA are out of school, and most adults are out of work a bit after that so the network traffic increases. Ex (This is in a much smaller scale then GTA's servers actual capacity and power) at 1pm et there are 100,000 people online. The servers can handle this. At 4pm et everyones out of school and work and there are 1,000,000 people online, and the servers cannot handle this, so there starts to be glitches and bugs and people keep getting kicked because theres an overflow of people trying to get online at the same time, similar to a DDoS attack. Once heists gets old (or a week passes and people get bored) i'm pretty sure the server usage will be normal again and people will be able to play heists again. I should be a R* employee, I'd be perfect. Vote #Shr3ddz4RSEmployee. Post that all around the interwebs.


The funny thing is they never even added an optional single player version of the heists and extra content. They could of used the AI system for the other people involved and used storyline characters from the previous heists in single player.

 

This would of removed the stress on the servers and could of avoided this disaster.

They added other DLC's like highlife to SP but there were still tons of people on Online enstead of SP. To be fair its called Grand Theft Auto Online: Heists so...

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xXRobbie98Xx

The funny thing is they never even added an optional single player version of the heists and extra content. They could of used the AI system for the other people involved and used storyline characters from the previous heists in single player.

 

This would of removed the stress on the servers and could of avoided this disaster.

yeah tbh I would of also much rather use AI players than useless c*nts from countries like Pakistan with crappy connection and no mic.. Edited by xXRobbie98Xx
Commander S

I reckon it's at least time to take a break from the game until R* sorts it out - at the very least the game's often unplayable, and worse still, character progress (appearance, crew rank, money, etc.) is getting scrambled. Just had a report of someone's entire profile (both characters, and everything attached) being wiped - yeah, it's probably recover-able, but still.

Basically, the Heist update* turned GTAO into a game of Russian roulette - and I'm not playing, thankyouverymuch. Going to sit it out, get on with other games, and keep tabs on the latest patch info and hotfixes, but avoid playing until it's confirmed to be safe enough to go in, and not lose ...nearly a year and a half's time, effort and gameplay progress.


*and I do reckon it's to do with the new content, not just 'high volumes of players' - lots of players and stress on the servers doesn't explain the various save-data glitches like the mask/appearance bug. I'd guess it's more to do with how much of the Heists stuff now turns the two games/maps into distinctly separate entities - all the reworked areas on the map (like the apartment/garage entrances) aren't carried over into single-player, so when switching from GTAV to Online, it can't just load player assets into the same, unchanged map anymore. Instead, it's got to load the 'GTAO version', and I suspect it's all these fundamental changes to the way the game operates that are screwing things up - much like how there were severe problems with everything right back at launch in 2013.

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It could be. I think in just about every DLC or new content that rockstar has released for GTA has brought some sort of problems to the game. Like I've said before, rockstar can't seem to do anything right. So what happens when the game's most anticipated and possibly the best DLC arrives? I'm talking about the heists of coarse and of coarse they don't work! Sure I can understand there's probably about 20% of the community who can play this game fine but all I've experienced and I know lots of others have in the last couple of days is "Timed Out" or "The Rockstar Services are Unavailable" or some other crap I get fed everytime I try to join a server or do a heist. I think this is it. I reckon people will just stop playing this game altogether because quite frankly, it's crap, total crap. Oh yeah nice, heists? How about you fix the bloody game before your release them, twats.

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xXRobbie98Xx

 

It could be. I think in just about every DLC or new content that rockstar has released for GTA has brought some sort of problems to the game. Like I've said before, rockstar can't seem to do anything right. So what happens when the game's most anticipated and possibly the best DLC arrives? I'm talking about the heists of coarse and of coarse they don't work! Sure I can understand there's probably about 20% of the community who can play this game fine but all I've experienced and I know lots of others have in the last couple of days is "Timed Out" or "The Rockstar Services are Unavailable" or some other crap I get fed everytime I try to join a server or do a heist. I think this is it. I reckon people will just stop playing this game altogether because quite frankly, it's crap, total crap. Oh yeah nice, heists? How about you fix the bloody game before your release them, twats.

 

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Grumpy-Goat-

It could be. -So you don't really know. I think in just about every DLC or new content that rockstar has released for GTA has brought some sort of problems to the game. -Again you "think" without backing material. Oh and BTW any game ever with new content brings new issues.Like I've said before, rockstar can't seem to do anything right. -Oh yeah... the whole biggest game of all time sure puts a damper on their reputation.So what happens when the game's most anticipated and possibly the best DLC arrives? I'm talking about the heists of coarse and of coarse they don't work! -Yeah they do, but with an overload of people trying to do them things can get a bit wonky, oh and uh spell check. Sure I can understand there's probably about 20% of the community who can play this game fine -Where is the source material to back that up? That's an utterly ridiculous guestimation, carry on though you have yet to make a point but all I've experienced and I know lots of others -It's always "lots of others isn't it?" have in the last couple of days is "Timed Out" or "The Rockstar Services are Unavailable" or some other crap I get fed everytime I try to join a server or do a heist. -Again massive amounts of traffic trying to do the exact same thing is gonna cause some issues. I think this is it. I reckon people will just stop playing this game altogether because quite frankly, it's crap, total crap. -That's just ignorant butt hurt talking. Oh yeah nice, heists? How about you fix the bloody game before your release them, twats. -Now now now, name calling never got anyone anywhere.

 

I also recommend making sure you have a solid interwebz connection. Oh I know I'm sure you do... but it never hurts to check.

Phantomspirit

Apparently a billion players were trying to get on ,on launch day,so that's why the networks had a problem.Proves the game is Mega popular,players have also to take into consideration their own broadband strength etc. What Rockstar provided ,free of charge,is amazing,the game feels new,there will be teething problems with matchmaking etc ,but we have to be patient,we are really lucky to have a game provider like Rockstar giving us this DLC,and I applaude them wholeheartedly.

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xXRobbie98Xx

 

It could be. -So you don't really know. I think in just about every DLC or new content that rockstar has released for GTA has brought some sort of problems to the game. -Again you "think" without backing material. Oh and BTW any game ever with new content brings new issues.Like I've said before, rockstar can't seem to do anything right. -Oh yeah... the whole biggest game of all time sure puts a damper on their reputation.So what happens when the game's most anticipated and possibly the best DLC arrives? I'm talking about the heists of coarse and of coarse they don't work! -Yeah they do, but with an overload of people trying to do them things can get a bit wonky, oh and uh spell check. Sure I can understand there's probably about 20% of the community who can play this game fine -Where is the source material to back that up? That's an utterly ridiculous guestimation, carry on though you have yet to make a point but all I've experienced and I know lots of others -It's always "lots of others isn't it?" have in the last couple of days is "Timed Out" or "The Rockstar Services are Unavailable" or some other crap I get fed everytime I try to join a server or do a heist. -Again massive amounts of traffic trying to do the exact same thing is gonna cause some issues. I think this is it. I reckon people will just stop playing this game altogether because quite frankly, it's crap, total crap. -That's just ignorant butt hurt talking. Oh yeah nice, heists? How about you fix the bloody game before your release them, twats. -Now now now, name calling never got anyone anywhere.

 

I also recommend making sure you have a solid interwebz connection. Oh I know I'm sure you do... but it never hurts to check.

Okay I can understand where your coming from but I'm not sure why you require me to "back it up with evidence".. I said "could this be the end of gta v?" So why is me saying "it could be" so wrong. I don't know for certain if it is the end, that's why the title is a question, not a statement. It could be the end but it might not be.

no, this is not the end of GTA. Jeez, Hiests are way fun, the game's the best it's ever been. My connection has been iffy just like everyone else, but when it is working it's easy to see the potential. I hope they sort it out.

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Just the amount of strain being put on the servers at the moment should be enough to show you that Grand Theft Auto: Online is as popular as its ever been. People that haven't played the game in months are getting back on to finally play heists, and with the PC version coming out in a short while that will bring a whole new community into the fold. So I don't think its the end, if it managed to drag on for almost 2 years I think it can last a little longer.

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Just the amount of strain being put on the servers at the moment should be enough to show you that Grand Theft Auto: Online is as popular as its ever been.

 

 

GTA was always popular... Players got bored due to lack of co-op content. This is actual new content..the 1st real update in my opinion.. Hence people are back.

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Ai®a©ob®a

The bonus thing is messing heists up as well, I've been trying to help folk with the first heist but it's telling me I will lose my All in order bonus.

This is why we end up waiting ages on folk accepting.

That has nothing to do with the servers...

 

What that is saying is if you accept it your all in a row bonus will be reset which you can redo at anytime in the future it won't reset your heist back to the first one.

The funny thing is they never even added an optional single player version of the heists and extra content. They could of used the AI system for the other people involved and used storyline characters from the previous heists in single player.

 

This would of removed the stress on the servers and could of avoided this disaster.

They added other DLC's like highlife to SP but there were still tons of people on Online enstead of SP. To be fair its called Grand Theft Auto Online: Heists so...

Actually the game is called Grand Theft Auto V you paid for the base game of Grand Theft Auto V.

 

GTAO IS optional to anybody who wants it but the game was still built around SP

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Wildfire_08

It could be. I think in just about every DLC or new content that rockstar has released for GTA has brought some sort of problems to the game. Like I've said before, rockstar can't seem to do anything right. So what happens when the game's most anticipated and possibly the best DLC arrives? I'm talking about the heists of coarse and of coarse they don't work! Sure I can understand there's probably about 20% of the community who can play this game fine but all I've experienced and I know lots of others have in the last couple of days is "Timed Out" or "The Rockstar Services are Unavailable" or some other crap I get fed everytime I try to join a server or do a heist. I think this is it. I reckon people will just stop playing this game altogether because quite frankly, it's crap, total crap. Oh yeah nice, heists? How about you fix the bloody game before your release them, twats.

 

 

http://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/metascore/all/all?sort=desc

 

Takes up 4 places in the top 15 average rated games of all time.

 

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/poltergeist13/lists/top-25-best-selling-games-ps3/90171/

 

Best selling game from the entire PS3 library

 

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/best-selling-ps4-ps3-january-psn-games-revealed/1100-6425189/

 

3rd best selling digital game PSN only, not including disc versions/other consoles in Feb 2015 (So an upto date number)

 

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/gta-5-s-online-mode-attracts-33-8m-players-heists-/1100-6423568/

 

More than 34 million copies shipped with more than 33.8 million people that have played online.

 

When you talk about GTA V, you're talking about a game which made $1billion in 3 days, & which was pulling in $30M- $40M a month from micro transactions alone.

 

Every single DLC, or release has issues because there are quite literally MILLIONS of people trying to access the game at once.

 

The last GTA was booming for 3 years before modders eventually f*cked it up, this GTA will be going for a long time so why don't you try and convince some other people that it's "dead" and run along to your sh*t call of duty games.

 

Contrary to your "informed" opinion, I don't think Rockstar will have any issues keep this game well & truly alive, it is not even close to being dead as if you had half a brain you'd realise that.

 

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The funny thing is they never even added an optional single player version of the heists and extra content. They could of used the AI system for the other people involved and used storyline characters from the previous heists in single player.

 

This would of removed the stress on the servers and could of avoided this disaster.

They added other DLC's like highlife to SP but there were still tons of people on Online enstead of SP. To be fair its called Grand Theft Auto Online: Heists so...

Actually the game is called Grand Theft Auto V you paid for the base game of Grand Theft Auto V.

 

GTAO IS optional to anybody who wants it but the game was still built around SP

 

I meant that the DLC is called Grand Theft Auto Online Heists.

Apparently a billion players were trying to get on ,on launch day,so that's why the networks had a problem.Proves the game is Mega popular,players have also to take into consideration their own broadband strength etc. What Rockstar provided ,free of charge,is amazing,the game feels new,there will be teething problems with matchmaking etc ,but we have to be patient,we are really lucky to have a game provider like Rockstar giving us this DLC,and I applaude them wholeheartedly.

but ders only 7 millon ppl on erth! I dought it was a billion players, since GTA 5 has not sold a billion copies yet.

It was said in another thread by another user (I forgot which), but the Heists are fine, it's that the servers are overloaded. So many people trying to do the same thing at one time. It's a non-malicious DDoS attack.

 

While I jump on the GTAVisbroken bandwagon sometimes, you gotta feel for Rockstar on server issues, which isn't inherently their fault. They make the game, but the servers aren't personally maintained by them.

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It was working fine last nite and early this morn b4 went to work. I don't care a crap about the heists unless could do solo mode. I am excited about more money on certain car sales and doing some real estate shuffling today to consolidate south side strategy.

iiitscharlie

That's just idealistic, friend.

Most launch days come with the occasional hick-up and because only 3 days have gone by, it's expected to still be experiencing them. Once the problem has been fixed, everything will be back to normal.

I've been playing this game on both PS3 and PS4 since their release days, every single day without fail and the only major experiences I've had that made the game unplayable were certain days the servers were down and that's it.

It's normal to have a moan and feel cheated out of your enjoyment. I know how you feel. We've all waited a year and a half for this, but in a few weeks, this will be a small memory and everything will be plain sailing.

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Ziggy_Ivanhoe

The funny thing is they never even added an optional single player version of the heists and extra content. They could of used the AI system for the other people involved and used storyline characters from the previous heists in single player.

 

This would of removed the stress on the servers and could of avoided this disaster.

 

They could have just used the same character switching mechanic from the sp and let you hire various levels of AI that would take a "cut", so you can't just give them 0. That would be cool if you didn't have any friends around for a heist.

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xXRobbie98Xx

Be sure to update me when your triple A title you've been developing is done and is done completely flawlessly OP. I'm super excited for it.

It's almot here. We're just sent it out for testing. It's called "Shut the f*ck up Simulator"
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