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GTA: Online down for maintenance

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According to a post on the Rockstar forums, GTA: Online went down at 9pm Eastern Standard Time for some much needed maintenance. It will be down for 24 hours until the end of the 16th of January. We don’t know whether or not there will be loss of saved data, although I’m sure if that was the case, Rockstar would notify us. It’s not clear what exactly the 24 hour downtime will fix either, but we’d imagine it would have something to do with hackers and cheaters ruining games for others and gaining large amounts of money via glitches, thereby ruining the economy.

I’ve played through GTA Online quite a bit, and while I have seen my fair share of griefers and people with ridiculously high levels, I’ve never had too much trouble with cheaters. If it wasn’t for the $500,000 stimulus package, however, I wouldn’t be able to afford a damn thing. I do see a future problem with the stock markets getting implemented into GTA: Online though. Can you even imagine how abused that will be? We aren’t even completely sure of how it will work. Hopefully this downtime fixes and preps for these problems, otherwise, GTA’s financial system will be even more borked.

Downtime for online portions of games is totally expected, especially one of this scale and scope. We can only hope that this will make the experience better for people, especially in the wake of the newly added content creator, which has already garnered over a million custom levels.

Last Updated: January 16, 2014

38 Comments

  1. FFS

    WHYYYYYY MUST you ruin gaming for everyone by cheating / glitching??? Do you think you are special? Are you getting some self gratification with your actions? Be a real man/woman and play it properly! Cheaters are right up there with corrupt officials, steak and kidney pies and stinky toe-cheese

    /FFS

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    • GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness

      January 16, 2014 at 08:00

      Oi Oi Oi….

      you forgot the obligatory Castle lager, JMPD roadblocks

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      • Admiral Chief in Vegas

        January 16, 2014 at 08:04

        and eTolls

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        • GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness

          January 16, 2014 at 08:12

          e-tolls? you mean those things that work pays for?

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          • General JJ Raven (John)

            January 16, 2014 at 08:12

            And those things that us Capetownians don’t have?

          • GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness

            January 16, 2014 at 08:13

            Touche

          • Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!

            January 16, 2014 at 08:13

            Question, the e-tag is registered under your name or the company name?

          • GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness

            January 16, 2014 at 08:14

            Well, i’m not sure…

            it is linked to the petrol card that we get :-), and company handles all that stuff

          • Admiral Chief in Vegas

            January 16, 2014 at 08:46

            And that, is what you call the JACKPOT

          • GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness

            January 16, 2014 at 08:47

            indeed… swipey swipey all the way…

    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      January 16, 2014 at 08:08

      Like using a cheat code in Duke Nukem…

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      • General JJ Raven (John)

        January 16, 2014 at 08:12

        If it’s Duke Nukem forever, it can only make it better.

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        • Alien Emperor Trevor

          January 16, 2014 at 08:14

          If only it was 😉

          I’ll give him a break, it was to unlock an achievement hehe.

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          • Admiral Chief in Vegas

            January 16, 2014 at 08:27

            Indeed

      • GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness

        January 16, 2014 at 08:13

        It’s not called cheats on the PC anymore… it is called Mods..

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        • Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!

          January 16, 2014 at 08:13

          Wait… But… No! No no no. Not the same 🙁 Don’t destroy mods for me man!

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          • General JJ Raven (John)

            January 16, 2014 at 08:14

            I support mods. Steam workshop mods please. It’s a nice way of involving the community.

          • GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness

            January 16, 2014 at 08:15

            Uh-huh… those new followers in Skyrim? those new OP Armor and Weapon sets?

          • Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!

            January 16, 2014 at 08:17

            I never use those. I use graphic enhancements, gui replacements. Such things. I never get OP weapon sets and stuff. Maybe weapon and armor retextures sure. Or balanced weapons and spells.

            Never the OP stuff that makes the game easy

          • General JJ Raven (John)

            January 16, 2014 at 08:19

            I like cool weapons that people made that enhance gameplay, but not ridiculous weapons with overinflated damage and such.

          • GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness

            January 16, 2014 at 08:24

            Hells Yes.. those sets that add 200+ new (but balanced) weapons and texture sets

          • General JJ Raven (John)

            January 16, 2014 at 08:28

            Love them. Those seasons of Tamriel mods are unbelievable.
            And I couldn’t resist but get the Sword of Omens from Thundercats. Mostly because it looks so pretty.

          • GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness

            January 16, 2014 at 08:19

            Good..

            majority of the kiddies use those “mods” .

            BTW, how many mods you running in Skyrim?

      • RockMossel2014

        January 16, 2014 at 08:21

        LOOOL!!!

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    • General JJ Raven (John)

      January 16, 2014 at 08:12

      Hey!
      I like stinky cheese.

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      • Admiral Chief in Vegas

        January 16, 2014 at 08:44

        I do too, but I hate stinky feet cheese (when you don’t WASH) on people. I mean really, WASH YOUR FEET!

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    • Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!

      January 16, 2014 at 08:13

      Hooray!

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    • Umar digs KOS-MOS

      January 16, 2014 at 08:29

      Gaad damn, you making me feel bad for using the Konami code

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    • GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness

      January 16, 2014 at 08:46

      on the Steak and Kidney pie…..me no agree

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  2. Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!

    January 16, 2014 at 08:12

    And guess what? Everyone was still able to go and play the SP portion even though the online is dead. Why? because they used their brains and separated SP and MP. Take note all other publishers.

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    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      January 16, 2014 at 08:16

      Is this some new innovation in gaming?

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      • General JJ Raven (John)

        January 16, 2014 at 08:16

        Time travel.

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    • RinceThis2014

      January 16, 2014 at 08:32

      Well said man. And it didn’t take them 6 months after release to do that either…

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    • Admiral Chief in Vegas

      January 16, 2014 at 08:43

      Indeed, common sense has prevailed!

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  3. RinceThis2014

    January 16, 2014 at 08:31

    Maybe this is all a guise for the new content! Maybe we will be having casinos and poker and stuff!

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    • Rock789

      January 16, 2014 at 09:59

      I love the enthusiasm. 🙂

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      • RinceThis2014

        January 16, 2014 at 10:01

        As misguided as it is? Hehehe 🙂 Lunch on Sunday?

        Reply

  4. Gr8_Balls_o_Fire

    January 16, 2014 at 09:55

    Hopefully they are preparing for a PC and PS4/X1 release?

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