Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Grand Theft Auto IV for PS3 Having Online Problems

It seems that Rockstar's newly released Grand Theft Auto IV for the PlayStation 3 is having online problems. Whenever you try to go into an online match through the in-game cell-phone, it will tell you "Cannot connect to game provider, please try again later."

I'm pretty upset as I was just trying to get on hoping this would be a sick joke, but alas it was not. Hopefully Rockstar will get the game back up soon.

[GTA IV online is down]

10 comments:

incredibilistic said...

I made this exact comment in the Gamersyde comparison story. This was my worst fear as, once again, a multi-platform game for the PS3 has network issues.

That $50 bucks a year that 360 owners are paying doesn't sound like such a bad deal considering it probably includes making sure connectivity is solid on day one.

Although, MS had its share of problems over the Christmas holiday too so I guess it all evens out. Still, the PS3 is infamous for having connectivity issues and this is something Sony MUST nip in the bud.

I haven't picked up my copy yet (money's tight this week) but hopefully by the time I get around to buying it these issues will be worked out.

Anonymous said...

Damn PSN, why cant it be good like Live?

Anonymous said...

Warhawk and this are the only game that I have ever had connection issues, beta's don't count since open betas are normaly about testing server loads. This is alot better then having a paid service that goes down for all online games for a week.

Hopefully it will be up in the next day or so.

xbandaidx said...

I blame Rockstar, apparently they dont have very good quality testing.

skodasuck said...

Argh! Thought it was just my connection being crappy.

Didn't manage to get online because of my own internet, and now it's gone down.

Hopefully it will be back up soon anyways.

skodasuck said...

Just read this:

'Just play the game whilst not logged into the PSN network. My game started to stutter around 6 hours in, so i deleted the game data and re-installed. Same problem, so i just logged out of the PSN and i've never had the problem since...'

over at Gamespot, courtesy of DarkViper1989

Seems to work, possibly something to do with the online problems.

incredibilistic said...

After perusing the net I noticed that most people are only reporting issues with GTA and not any other online gameplay so the problem is not from Sony's end but rather the Gamespy servers Rockstar are using.

Although Sony's not totally void of fault as their "open" system doesn't exactly work all that well but then again it's good to know that if one game doesn't work another will probably work just fine. Versus XBL where EVERYTHING is down at the same time.

Kotaku-ites are babbling about how XBL is soooo much better and yet they had nearly 4 weeks of downtime during the Christmas holiday where just about everything including all the Marketplace and online gaming was down (or intermittent) for that entire time.

So cheer up PSN-ers, it's just day one and like the new PSN store everything is just getting hammered right now.

Although it doesn't help that MGO just had a slew of issues getting connected. This is one of the biggest games for the PS3 so I'm sure they're doing everything they can to get this up and running ASAP.

Anonymous said...

I'm glad they are having problems with MGO, so now when they release it all bugs and issues will be worked out.

But Xbox live was down for 4 weeks? I'm now even more glad sony has an open system.

thehosh said...

it maybe just me, but yesterday have been playing for 2 hours after i came home (9.00) and went online to test it around 10.30 and i didn't have any problems! but i dunno

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