GTA V servers for PC had downtime due to large influx of players

#5789613 Posted on: 05/18/2020 11:21 AM

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#5789621 Posted on: 05/18/2020 12:39 PM

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We should have a contest: in how many "creative" ways can you write "Rockstar"...

#5789626 Posted on: 05/18/2020 01:20 PM

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GTA's servers are so fragile they almost always go down when any kind of big event happens.

#5789632 Posted on: 05/18/2020 01:45 PM

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Playing one of the new heists shortly after release a few years ago, you know the ones linked to the bunker, the lazy one that just has forever spawning enemies in lew of actual gameplay and difficulty design. Anyway half way through this me and my team were bunkered down waiting for whatever boring timed event to happen to happen, it was pretty tough going as it was new we weren't sure what we should be doing and it's a pretty ropey and dull mission set in a real pain in the a*s level.

Anyway I sneezed and the Rcokstar servers went down.

The match making is a joke,
The lobby design is embarrassing
The way it handles players connecting to a game is nothing short of awful (gotta love sitting endlessly looking at the sky because someone joining the game timed out, better yet no way to quit other than reset, pull the ethernet cable or just wait and pray)
The freeplay lobbies still suffer from connection issues that were there on day one

In fact you would think with 6billion dollars made and 7 years they would have done something, anything with the lobby design, match making, QOL issues when the game goes, sorry does, go wrong but nope nothing it's all exactly the same as it was on day one. Oh sorry no one thing that has changed is their support services... it got much much worse!

I am guessing 4 or 5, maybe 10 new PC players tried to join GTAO and it was just to much for the servers to handle.

#5789633 Posted on: 05/18/2020 01:49 PM

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I don't know WTF they expected to happen. I mean the download alone for the game was about 90GB !!! It took me about half a day and overnight to finish that download.

Once that was done there was a very painful process of signing up to all the crap "Epic Games Launcher" and then "Rockstar Social Club", whatever the hell that is... with the most painful "are you a robot?" Recaptcha I have ever seen which kept sending me on a five minute process through many, many "how many traffic lights do you see" type crap. Never happened to me on any other Recaptcha site.

Noticed the down site saying it was down: https://downdetector.ie/status/gta5/map/

But I didn't have trouble starting it. Finally got game running for a few minutes. Then left it.