Rockstar Games launched its highly anticipated multiplayer add on for "Grand Theft Auto V." The company posted a blog to get people ready for the release of GTA Online on Tuesday morning. As it warned in the blog post, a massive influx of users attempting to play the new game has led to many issues with gameplay as well as some gamers being locked out or having difficulty logging on for the first time.
"GTA Online" lets gamers run free through the fictional city of Los Santos pulling off new missions, heists and recreational activities. It is free to everyone who purchased a copy of the new title from Rockstar and went live on Oct. 1. Apparently, so many people wanted to play the game online at its launch that Rockstar's servers were overwhelmed.
The company warned that this would happen last week in a post on the Rockstar Newswire.
"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! Even in GTAV Story Mode, some of you may have seen a few odd and even amusing little glitches out there last week," the post read. "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."
According to CNET, many users who have tried to access the game have taken to social media to express their dismay that they seem to be temporarily locked out.
"Well I wanted to get some GTA Online in before I had to head out to work," one user posted to Twitter. "The servers didn't comply with my plan."
Users who want more information on Rockstar's progress fixing this problem should follow the company on Facebook or Twitter where it has said it will be posting updates and information. Still, the troubles with online are likely just first day influx issues.
