First weeks of Grand Theft Auto Online

When Grand Theft Auto 5 was released on September 17th Rockstar only released the single player version of the game.  This was due to the fact that the online need more tweaking and fixing in order to avoid many glitches that would cause popularity to decrease.  On October 1st Grand Theft Auto online was released. All people who buy Grand Theft Auto 5 will have access to Grand Theft Auto Online (If you are connected to the internet).  In this online version of the game players are dropped into worlds that can hold up to 16 players they then can race, do missions, rob convenient stores and other various activities. The world is the same exact one as used in single player.

When the online version first came out over million people raced online to try and get into the servers this cause the servers to become overloaded and many people to experience problems. These problems ranged from certain missions not loading up correctly, people not being able to access content, long wait times to get into missions and various server errors.  When I loaded into the online version for the first time I experienced a wait time of 15 minutes before the first mission was ready to be accessed.

Since the release of online past that first day the problems with the servers have seemed to go down drastically as the game company smooths out and polishes over the glitches in order to provide smoother game play. The first few weeks of the online is called the stress test this is where the creators will see how everything is operating and what improvements they need to make to keep the game up to speed.  The idea of Grand Theft Auto Online is not a new concept, according to Rockstar North's president Leslie Benzies as stated in a Game Informer magazine the idea of Grand Theft Auto Online has been an idea that Rockstar wanted to achieve since the released of Grand Theft Auto III.  They felt that they have never made an online experience that was in par with their single player experience till now.  "We've always wanted to create a world with the complexity single player with the addition of real players" says Benzies. With the release of Grand Theft Auto Online Benzies believes that they have come very close to achieving close to their dreams.

JV