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As Heists Arrive, GTA Online Experiencing Server Issues

Unable to join a Heist mission? You're not alone; Rockstar "working to restore full access to GTA Online as quickly as possible."

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[UPDATE 2] Heists are now back up and running.

[UPDATE] Rockstar Games has passed along a statement addressing GTA Online's issues.

"We are aware of some issues today with players having problems connecting to GTA Online, as well as issues with the Xbox Live service," a representative said. "We are working to restore full access to GTA Online as quickly as possible. In the meantime, players can monitor the performance of all platforms on our GTA Online status page, located here."

The original story is below.

The release of Grand Theft Auto V's long-awaited online Heists mode today hasn't gone entirely smoothly. Fans are widely reporting connectivity issues that are, in some cases, preventing them from forming a crew and taking on some of the new four-person Heist jobs available in GTA Online.

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GameSpot attempted to form a four-person crew to take on a Heist job, but was unable to get all players into a party at the same time to start the mission. Eventually, it worked, but clearly GTA Online is experiencing some teething problems.

We've been able to connect to GTA Online just fine, but accessing and completing Heists has been particularly problematic.

Players are reporting GTA Online issues across all platforms. For its part, Microsoft has issued a service alert for Xbox 360, notifying users of connectivity problems.

Server woes are nothing new for GTA Online. When the mode launched in October, it faced widespread issues. These have been largely corrected, and Rockstar Games even thanked players with free in-game currency and more for their troubles.

GameSpot will continue to monitor GTA Online's status, updating this post with new information as it becomes available. We've also reached out to Rockstar, asking for further insight into what might be going wrong and when a fix will be deployed.

For now, if you're experiencing technical troubles, you can visit the GTA Online support page.

Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email news@gamespot.com

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sort your shit out rockstar!

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sort your shit out rockstar!

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20+ hours of free content. This is why Rockstar towers above most other developers.

"The Order: 1886": 6-8 hours for $60? Pitiful.... Who in their right mind would defend such nonsense?

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Nobody ever comments, "Hey, thanks for the content!" or "Thanks for getting the servers back up as soon as you could!" or "Thanks for the hard work!" It's all "Waaaah... we're getting free content but we have to wait because we, the players, flooded the hell out of their servers! Waah!" Nobody comments until they have something negative to comment about.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> That's because people love moaning about anything and everything. They don't care that it's free, they'll moan all day and all night long because they feel they're special snowflakes and don't like it when things don't go their own way.

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Not quite sure how £60 equates to free.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> It's free because they already had everyone's £60. The original game was worth the money AFAIC, particularly when you consider some of the other crap that is released at the same price point. They spent over a year working on this extra FREE content when they were not charging any extra money for it. Thats how its free, by being FREE.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Thank you for telling it how it is.

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However much heists might not be working, the video of their livestream is great...

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Heists had to be the worst roll out ever in the history of DLC roll outs. The incompetence of Rockstar's upper management is on full display for the world to see.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> You must be new to DLC Rollouts and game launches then.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Not at all. the real question is, why do you defend a company that so obviously screwed up? If I screwed up like that in my job, people would die and I would undoubtedly be fired.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Thats some pretty big hyperbole there, mister...

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> No, I don't think so, kid.

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So how many of you guys said, "Too late rockstar! I don't even care anymore!" ... and then went on to jam up the servers on launch? Don't wonder why rockstar underestimated traffic flow

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That's right, it's the people's fault that bought the game! How silly of everyone to jam the small amount of servers trying to play their game


Sound's like you work for Rockstar, seem to have a similar outlook on things

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> I was referring to the fact that they should have stfu about their overstatments of how much they ARE NOT GOING TO BE PLAYING. go play some autoaim

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Still believing "polishing" of PC port? :) Whenever it comes out I bet it'll require a couple patches still.

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Everyone, here is a link to all platforms servers and the status of them for GTA, if required.


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says they are currently all up, they were not yesterday according to this page

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<< LINK REMOVED >> That means nothing. They often say their servers are up when in fact they aren't. Rockstar lies and thinks nothing of it.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> You're welcome

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Exactly why I wasn't in a rush to try it out last night...I'll give it a go this weekend

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This is total fucking bullshit, I took the day off of work yesterday so I could play heists all fucking day and make a ton of money, due to rockstars shit servers I got to play for maybe a total of 1 hour all day, couldn't even get online and when I finally did I couldn't even find anybody to play with, the two times I did we all got kicked after the boring and lame setup mission. I ended up losing money buying the over priced masks. Also kept losing, 40k a pop trying to setup the jail break only to get booted over and over. How you gonna make this alright for me, rockstar?

PS-I live in new york, shouldn't you have better servers for areas with a higher concentration of people?

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Over a billion dollars this game made, was it enough to ensure stability for it's future?

Erm, no.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> 2 billion with PS4/X1

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This game has never stopped having issues, constantly I'll have to restart the game to join gto, or try multiple times before it tells me R* servers are available. And when it does, it'll either not put me in servers with friends, put me in a server alone Or finally play for awhile and then everyone gets kicked. These are issues that have been around since 2013. It's pathetic.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Dont like it - Go play cod

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That's the exact reason gta v hasn't gone into my disc drive in about 6-7 months

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<< LINK REMOVED >> same for most people. My friends and I all stopped playing it for this reason. We all really enjoy the game online but it's so unstable we all gave up About 14 of us used to play regularly, now zero.

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Need players for heists ps4 on rank 50+ prefer add me Cisko_92 don't discriminate

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*Working to restore*

Actually means, waiting for the hype to subside so they don't have to upgrade servers.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Actually means shitting on their customers.

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You all need to stfu, we finally got what we asked for, and just because servers went down, your all bitching about some dumb shit, when 1 to 2 days later, it'll be just fine. The you all can bitch about something else that you don't like, bevause all people do nowadays is cry and cry about people doing something wrong, when you don't even give them credit for doing complicated shit. So stfu and just wait you whining little kids

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i hope the will be back on soon

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After the crappy overrated GTA4 I decided to skip 5, and I'm so glad I did. What a mess 5 has turned out to be.


R* couldn't even programme a chook raffle.

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Then you do it. since it's so easy there is bound to be some issues on A FREE dlc let me say that again so you understand FREE DLC just give them some time and quite giving them shit

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Shame. The single player game was one of the best times I've had in video games.

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