User blog comment:LS11sVaultBoy/GTA Online Launch FAIL/@comment-4510039-20131001223523/@comment-4095569-20131002063153

I doubt Rockstar expected to sell as many as they did. They made much more profit that the previous Call of Duty did, and even that released with some minor hiccups. Rockstar probably expected roughly the same audience, not almost twice the amount and not certainly all at the same time.

It isn't just a case of buying more servers either. With Bawsaq and the Social club, everything in GTA Online is connected to each other. Even people just signed in playing single player would still have an affect on the servers. Everyone going on the internet and onto the Social Club didn't help either.

It's difficult to try and defend Rockstar considering that I wasted a day off work for it, but from what I've seen, the game is worth another few days wait. If it takes them a couple of weeks to fix it though, then I'll get p*ssed.