Max Level: "If you’re like me, you’ve been anticipating the launch of Grand Theft Auto Online for what seems to be eons now. When Rockstar gave us a 7 am time frame yesterday for their expected “online-unlocking” update, I cried enormous, Shingeki No Kyojin-like tears of joy. For it was almost my time to embark on an epic alternate life of crime; becoming the Michael Corleone of my time in San Andreas. My heart fluttered as the clock slowly crept towards 4 am pacific standard time. I began sweating profusely as I created my character, my new crime kingpin. But as he was spawned and I was taken to the load screen that precedes being launched into GTA Online bliss, I was met with the bane of my morning/afternoon."
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Rockstar Games will be conducting one-to-one discussions regarding its live service game, GTA Online, with a select number of players.
@disagrees
Didn't have a good rebuttal did you? We all know the select players are whales who waste thousands or hundreds of thousands on the games currency. You expect them to make the same kinds of demands as everyone else? Keep dreaming.
Rockstar Games is permanently banning players for using an account duplication exploit in GTA V's multiplayer component, GTA Online.
Why is this news? Is this supposed to be some sort of heads up to those involved?
Why shouldn't this be news? If you play the game at all, you'd know this has been a problem for a while. Tell me, how is it fair for legit low-level players to be grieved by players using modded accounts with disposable amounts of cash? It's about time Rockstar did something about these losers.
Not that I really played it in forever, but the way I used to roll on online once I realize I had no interest in actually doing heists and micromanaging property and shit, the moment someone decided to pick a fight I'd just leave towards north, jump the fence of the army base, steal a jet and grief away... Pro tip: they can't really make you pay for other players cars when you have not one single penny to your name.
EDIT: Got carried away... Anyway, my point was, you can grief without money, this is not stopping it.
@BISHOP-BRASIL
I get what you're trying to say, but it's a false equivalence. Anyone could jump the fence and grab a jet back in the day. The dynamic changed once R* started introducing militarized vehicles, such as flying motorcycles with homing rockets, a stealth helicopter, and most recently, a stealth jet. There's so many militarized vehicles now, you really have to keep up with the latest and greatest in order to defend yourself from that shit, which is really expensive to do. Sure, you could make the argument that Shark Cards give players the same advantage as a modded account. The thing is, they don't. Not even close. A modded account can have ANY amount of money, as well as ANY weapon and/or vehicle, even ones that aren't available in the game yet (as long as they're in the datafiles). Some of them even have glitched characters with invisible limbs/weapons. This is an unfair advantage to anyone who plays legitimately and nobody should have to risk getting their accounts permanently banned from stooping to the same level just to compete. Furthermore, making money is really easy to do now. Which begs the question: Why buy a modded account in the first place? I think the answer is obvious.
Who goes outside?
Between this and BF4, I have not seen outside all day. I wish developers could figure out how to stop these issues.
Glad I did not take off work.
Loving the satire. I mean, I can't believe all the backlash that Rockstar is getting today. I understand that people want to be able to use this amazing feature, but you can't expect for a multi-billion dollar game to launch smoothly -- I can't even tell you how many people were trying to get on today. Problems are expected! We all just need to go with the flow and let Rockstar work out the technical issues. Don't worry, folks. We'll all be robbing each other in no time.
I've been playing since it came out, a few issues but never been forced off the game and never been stopped from connecting.
Hopefully it gets resolved soon.
Also, apparently if you're stuck on the first race with "Waiting for players" spamming A on 360 can sort it.