I keep seeing you online and wanting to invite you!
Online is an absolute blast once you're past the tutorial. Been robbing stores and running from cops all day with GAF Street homies!
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Grand Theft Auto: Online |OT| The Stimulation Has Began!
- Thread starter DietRob
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I keep seeing you online and wanting to invite you!
Online is an absolute blast once you're past the tutorial. Been robbing stores and running from cops all day with GAF Street homies!
This literally happens for every single big online launch, so obviously it's not as easy as you're inferring.
It'll be fine in a week.
GAAAAAH! Gaz don't tell me such awesome stories! Baha, I tried to join your session and it was like "YOU MUST COMPLETE THE TUTORIAL"
Goodness, I shall keep trying until we can roll together some day!
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Nah. Lamar is freakishly tall, isn't he? He even dwarfs the main characters.
G-Bus
Banned
I'm so confused about how online works. I made my Character, had lamar getting me to do a couple of missions and then.. yea. Bunch if random people driving around shooting me while I'm trying to do these missions for lamar....
I remember GTA IV online, and this doesn't seem to be anything like that.
I remember GTA IV online, and this doesn't seem to be anything like that.
Lamar tried to mack so hard at my girl- spittin' that game with a rose and all!
rbanke
Member
It's more likely almost always a case of it not making financial sense to spend money on infrastructure that will only be needed for the first few days/weeks not an inability to plan for capacity.
ndawgdrake
Member
Seconded.
it's weird. the free roam is like one big lobby. but then when you do deathmatches and stuff like that it puts you into another lobby with random players that weren't in your free roam game....i think.
G-Bus
Banned
How do I even go about joining other games?
So I'm not sure what just happened. I restarted but had to get up and go do something. When I came back I'm at the race starting point but there isn't a race marker. I'm walking around though. Lamar keeps shouting, "Hey, you're supposed to be going that way!". I'm afraid to restart and have no idea what's going on.
MrTroubleMaker
Member
Yeah, this is why I pretty much don't play MP anymore, its no fun for me like this
Hip Hop
Member
All of this issues will somehow be part of the game for as long as it lives, on a lesser scale of course. GTA IV and Red Dead Redemption still have occasional problems with the online, so I do not expect things to be different here.
Hip Hop
Member
Quick Job on your phone, you can host one or join one. After you are done, I think it puts you back in to your respective free roam lobby.
You can avoid this error message if you go into the pause menu, select Online, select Play GTA Online, and select Invite Only Game. You'll be able to watch the intro, but once it tries to load the first tutorial mission which is a multiplayer race, get ready for more error messages all over again!
... It's worse.
Just play offline for now. Go for 100% or something.
I'm doing stunt jumps myself.
JrBaconCheeseburger
Member
Fuck this shit, i have tried so many times i am done with this shit.
I do not know why i even thought it would work.
Sounded too promising now that i look back.
I do not know why i even thought it would work.
Sounded too promising now that i look back.
PS3 or 360?
Yeah. If you want to play with people from your session, you can go to a deathmatch or whatever, host it, and go to "invite from current session". Then people from your session can join of they feel like it. Otherwise it sets you up with randoms who want to play deathmatch too
tokyostomp
Banned
You can avoid this error message if you go into the pause menu, select Online, select Play GTA Online, and select Invite Only Game. You'll be able to watch the intro, but once it tries to load the first tutorial mission which is a multiplayer race, get ready for more error messages all over again!
Same thing here, Been trying off and once since 6am.
Also PSN Digital Download, California
Welcome to the launch of every single huge online game ever released now and forever. The publishers are never going to build an infrastructure big enough to handle the huge initial demand because they know in a few weeks thinks die down and what they built will be enough. Wait until you try to download your digital games on day one next gen, it'll be faster to wait for them to come in the mail. Didn't you see Diablo 3, Simcity, and MMORPG queues when new content comes out?
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Ha! Smooth operator!
DeliciousDoc
Member
maybe I'm just being "entitled" but can't game companies rent servers so they have a smooth launch, thus keeping or elevating interest in their title and then return them as they become less needed? If they want people to buy games at launch and whine about people buying second hand down the line, maybe the launch experience should be on par or superior than waiting and getting it later. As it is now, it is never the case unless they consciously make the experience worse by using online passes.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
lol @ having to pay to go into passive mode. That shit should be free, to escape the clusterfuck of randos just ramming people and emptying an uzi into them while they're trying to finish required tutorial missions. I've been killed during unskippable cutscenes, calls from Lamar and Simeon I can't ignore, as soon as I hang up, someone's there to kill me an take the $20 I might have on me. That's right, asshole, I deposited all my funds earlier. Enjoy the empty thrill.
cheststrongwell
my cake, fuck off
I just add a week to the release date of big online games. Helps me live a happier, more fulfilling life.
I don't think it's being entitled so much as maybe not understanding how difficult networking can be. I think if the problem is simply one which can be solved by cost alone, we wouldn't be seeing problems like this so frequently. Often it's not companies being cheap about it. I'm really frustrated with the launch too, since I really want to play with friends and it's impossible at the moment, but realistically speaking, I doubt this is because they don't have enough servers up. It's more likely that their network code is struggling to keep pace with the connections, and the huge influx of users is causing the system to collapse under the pressure. This is not something you can easily solve just by putting in more hardware. In reality most of the hardware they have supporting the game is probably being under-utilized at the moment because people can't even get into the game itself.
None of this excuses the fact that as paying customers we are unable to use a service as promised, but I think it helps to look at it from a perspective that sometimes the problem is a bit more complex than just magically making things work by putting in more money.
What? I don't see what they "over promised" on here. Care to explain?
Hip Hop
Member
I'm trying to get a bounty going here. Everyone on sight is killed.
I'm on 360 and can't get into the first race.
Lemon Crest
Member
It seems you can't ragdoll yourself in GTA:O.
Bleh
Bleh