Feedbackula - GTA Online Server Sacrilege

@PowerDingALing Keep raging on that keyboard, obviously you're part of the group of people who make this show so great, I'll remain one of the ones who enjoys the show, and doesn't contribute. (I'm a rational human being)

@Shinobi-Neo The new Gamespot broke my chrome install (flash plugin), had to jump through hoops to fix it, but now it works. If you're using Chrome and you get the error (Shockwave flash couldn't load), then google is your friend, lots of methods to fix it, if the video just won't play, no errors, then try disabling adblock, in addition to the flash thing, adblock was blocking the video's, but disabling it made them work.

@skipper847 Yes, and it's fantastic. I ran like 10 races in a row with a random group of 16 people earlier, never played the same race/class/track/vehicle type twice. So much fun.

@TsK_Makaveli People act like the billion in sales magically showed up in their bank accounts the day after release, instead of understanding that it's coming from thousands of different sources, in all forms imaginable. They didn't release on Sept. 17th, and then get a check for a billion dollars on Sept. 18th, cash it on the 19th, and have access to it on the 20th. Even if they did put that billion into the servers, it would take a long time, and a lot of work to actually build all that extra infrastructure. All the money in the world cannot prevent all problems that can arise from an online game of this magnitude, even WoW still has problems every time a new Xpac is released, or a large patch comes out, and WoW has been around forever, and made far more money than GTA V.

@kargion Are you under the impression that GTA Online is as simple as CoD lobby+matchmaking? For one there are several hundred different lobbies within that one 16 player lobby, and those lobbies all connect with people across the online service, not just your one lobby, and then you have the actual world of GTA V, the entire open world, without a single loading screen, seamless from one end to the other, populated with NPC's, animals, vehicles, buildings, stores, police that spawn and follow each individual player as if they were playing single player. You have those 16 players interacting with eachother, fighting, flying, racing, causing general mayhem, etc. And all the while there is a series of missions being sent out depending on each ones location, progress, level, etc. Plus much more..... And you compare it to CoD? Simple 12 person FPS lobbies? Not to mention, CoD BO2 STILL has lag issues to this day that haven't been addressed, not to mention the day one server BS that every single CoD game has.....

And Rockstar should be embarassed? Hahahaha, if you don't understand what it takes to host an online game as simple as CS, or CoD, that's fine, but don't pretend like you do, and make asinine comments comparing GTA Online to CoD, as if what they're doing, and the infrastructure required are anywhere near similar.

@kargion yeah but cod maps no where as big as the gta 5 map.

@senorpianist Calm down, first. Take a deep breath, and think about Skyrims horrific launch on PS3, and how unplayable that game was, and the months it took to get it fixed.... Yeah, GTA Online having server problems for 3 days is totally worse...

@senorpianist I LOVE CAPSLOCK

@senorpianist No

@fallin75 Agreed. I think they really need to stop making videos and articles for GTA 5 now. I think everything that could have been said about the game has just about been said.

@retsmot You obviously didn't get the memo that missing characters were not deleted, and only inaccessible because of server problems.... I lost my character twice, it came back each time because I have a brain and understood that if I made a new character, it would overwrite my character when it came back. Most people have experienced this when their character looked to be deleted. Sorry you deleted your own characters though, sucks for you. Oh well, Beyond 2 Souls is literally a movie with optional gameplay that doesn't actually care if you play it or not, so you won't have this issue next time.

@Kurushio There is no stress test that can tell you what's going to happen when you go live with the massive amount of copies that GTA V had sold. There is no amount of money, nor time that can prevent all problems from a massive online launch, people need to understand this by now, why do companies like Blizzard still have these problems every time they have a massive online release? Blizzard practically pioneered the current form of online gaming with WoW, and yet WoW still has these issues when a new Xpac comes out, or a major patch goes live. Diablo 3 had these issues, SimCity had these issues, CoD still has these problems every single time a new one comes out, I could go on forever, but the point is with these online games, there is only so much a developer can do before going live, there just isn't any way to prevent everything, because they have no idea what is gonna have problems, and there are no tests or simulations that can actually recreate what tens of millions of users logging on are going to do. It's time people stop acting like every developer is sitting on their ass not doing anything, like these problems don't matter to them. This is a nightmare for every single company it happens to, you think Rockstar didn't prepare? They had an entirely separate team working on GTA Online from GTA V single player, both working almost the same amount of time on each, the success of the singleplayer was not their only goal, they had 2 goals, the second of which was to have the online be as big of a success as the single player, these problems were the absolute worst thing that could have happened. They prepared, they spent a quarter billion dollars building the game, they spent 5 years on the game, that's a hell of a lot more preparation than a game with the exact same online functions from one CoD to the next, gets, and yet both games experience similar launch issues, and nobody flips out on Activision/IW/Treyarch nearly as much as people did to Rockstar. I've never seen so many people claim they sold their copies....over 2 days of issues? A game that is guaranteed to give you months, possibly years of new content, sold and given up on because of 2 or 3 days of problems logging on?

When did gamers develop this sense of entitlement? When did gamers turn to this irrational group of people who throw tantrums whenever something doesn't go perfect for them? It's embarassing.

@Kurushio think of it as open beta, in this way R* will know what the issues are in order to address them. The more interesting point is are they committed to do so ........... they never did resolve the MP3 MP issues

@nate1222 not the same thing but having played the multiplayer i can honestly say i would rather play that than the sp. the things you can do in mp are amazing

@ggregd They probably thought that *was* a New Zealand accent, doh! :P

@5SI-GonePostal Exactly. WoW still has issues to this day, every major release that has online functions has issues, CoD, a game that has an online component that doesn't change from game to game, still has major issues day 1 every year, Diablo 3, SimCity, Guild Wars, Guild Wars 2, etc. This isn't something developers can control, throwing money at the servers just isn't the solution, and kids now days can't understand this at all. They're all so entitled, it's embarassing, I can't believe how many people seriously sold their copies of the game..... Like, they were so upset about a potential day or 2 of server problems, that they sold a game that Rockstar has already guaranteed to support with new content for at least a year, not to mention the years of user created content we'll get.... I guess I could understand if there was some really awesome game coming out right after GTA V, and someone couldn't afford it, but there wasn't/isn't... The first significant release was Beyond 2 Souls, and that is not even a game, it's a movie with a couple deleted scenes. That game is something you sell after a day or two, not GTA V.