New GTA Online screens released, Rockstar warns of crashes

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Grand Theft Auto Online goes live next week, Rockstar has warned - the combination of an enormous open world with enormous server loads is unlikely to go smoothly.

"One thing we are already aware of, and are trying to alleviate as fast as we can, is the unanticipated additional pressure on the servers due to a significantly higher number of players than we were anticipating at this point," reads a post on the NewsWire.

"We are working around the clock to buy and add more servers, but this increased scale is only going to make the first few days even more temperamental than such things usually are. This is part of the problem some of you have been experiencing with the iFruit App and some Social Club services - we apologize in advance for this and thank you for your patience in this area.

"More than ever, we need your help to report your experiences, findings, likes, loves, dislikes and hates," it continues. "And we will be looking at your feedback constantly to tune the game into its optimal shape and help guide how Grand Theft Auto Online will grow and evolve past this initial period."

"There will be the typical growing pains for an online game, including but not limited to crashes, glitches, crazy bugs, gameplay modes and mechanics that need re-balancing and other surprises!" adds another paragraph down the page. "Even in GTAV Story Mode, some of you may have seen a few odd and even amusing little glitches out there last week.

"This sort of thing is inevitable in a massive open-world game and there'll surely be lots more unexpected oddities like this in the Online world next week - rest assured we'll be monitoring and actively doing all we can to smooth such things out as they happen, but we need your help to find them, as well as your feedback to help fine tune all of the game's systems so everything is perfectly balanced."





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Source: http://www.oxm.co.uk/63044/new-gta-online-screens-released-rockstar-warns-of-crashes-glitches-crazy-bugs-and-other-surprises/

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ImpossibilityPosted:

This is bound to crash with so many people on it

EhGProductionzPosted:

Hmm hope none of these crashes happen to me! D: But anyways I love GTA V its a really good game cant wait for the online mode to come out. :)

Int_WolfPosted:

VibeEditz To me, it's no excuse, if I were a game developer I would prepare my servers for more people than I expect there to be. You should always be prepared.


They are prepared. They released the game 2 weeks ago and have been preparing it since then. I bet they have to buy ATLEAST 2 million serves.

AlbericiPosted:

Breading they should've had this problem fixed by now


A game that big lol thats a littler harder I am sure they fixed tons of glitches before the game was out unlike cod who like to made you update everyday

-InsanelyAwesome-Posted:

Crash's are to be expected with a game the size of GTA. To people saying this should be sorted how can they sort something which has has not presented itself yet because its offline? They can only tell the full extent when it goes live and they get reports on the situation

MonokumaPosted:

they should've had this problem fixed by now

sir_grecoPosted:

wow. very surprised there isnt someone complaining that there will be crashes online. if this was call of duty or battlefield every single comment would be a complaint.

WOLFxMANxPosted:

-Jord_Jr_Jr BF4 Beta or GTA V
Hmmm its going to be a tough choice :(


Play gta for a few days then get on Bf4 cuz it will be out for 2 weeks.

SanchezioPosted:

Not long now! I'm really looking forward to this, hopefully it will be awesome!

TippurPosted:

BF4 Beta or GTA V
Hmmm its going to be a tough choice :(