I'm not surprised. This has always happened with CoD, and they have similar number of players going online on the first day/week. 15+ Million GTA 5 copies sold, worldwide. Even if only 50% of those are people that will actually play it online, that's still a lot of a load for however amount of servers they have to handle. GTA 4 had online, and I don't remember reading about such issues. It's just too many people connecting in all at once.


