PS3 owners furious over GTA V download delay
Rather than walk into a shop on Tuesday, or hope that the post arrives on time, many PlayStation 3 owners elected to pay full price for the game in order to guarantee they’d get it on day one.
They were told they’d be able to start pre-installing the game today, but now Sony has confirmed that the process won’t begin until Monday – which may not give those with slower broadband connections enough time to download the massive 17GB file.
And even those with faster connections are likely to run into the problem of so many other people suddenly putting a burden on the network.
Pre-installing is a common practise for larger PC games, which allow you to download a large section of the game before it’s released. The idea is that the download is useless on its own, but last month hackers were able to derive a full list of the licensed music tracks and details of the game’s plot due to Sony’s lax security.
Sony were forced to apologise and it’s hard not to imagine that the mistake isn’t behind this new delay.
‘I can confirm that GTA V will be available to pre-download on Monday the 16th September,’ said a Sony spokesman on their official forum.
As you can imagine many fans have not taken the news well, with the following a snippet from those on the forum:
‘Thanks for TAKING as for FOOLS!!! You said on the 13th WE WANT IT ON THE 13TH. Most of us preordered from PSN because we could preload it on the 13th’, said member Ceois. ‘I didn’t top up my account with 50pounds just so you can SCAM ME! I want my money BACK!’
‘Same. First time pre-ordering digitally and the last time. What a [DELETED] shambles Sony. No point in asking for the £50 back from my wallet I guess. Thats the part of the deal you will hold up – no refunds,’ added vertigo9219.
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Related Forum: Grand Theft Auto Forum
Source: http://metro.co.uk/2013/09/13/ps3-owners-furious-over-gta-v-download-delay-3987868/
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RaciPosted:
Well thats your problem if your ps3 dont read disk or your just to lazy to go get the disk
KonviictedPosted:
ODSTJPEG I knew PS3 sucks but now it sucks even more :D
I don't think you quite understand what pre-download is son. Pre-download is getting the majority of a game downloaded prior to it's release; then you download the rest (25% or less) of the game a few days before it releases. This makes games playable at minute one of release. This has absolutely little to do the "PS3 sucking". in all honesty, 17 GB to download still shouldn't take more than a couple of hours even for slow connections. And for one last note, stop being an Xbox fanboy who doesn't even know that Xbox doesn't get downloadable games until about 2 weeks after their initial release and then has to download all 17GB at one time (sucks to suck).
Oh yeah and you can no longer say that because the One gets the digital version the day of release. So you stop being a PS fanboy. But on topic, this does suck for anyone that chose this option. Oh well, still going to be a sick game and its worth the wait/download!
KonviictedPosted:
ODSTJPEG I knew PS3 sucks but now it sucks even more :D
I don't think you quite understand what pre-download is son. Pre-download is getting the majority of a game downloaded prior to it's release; then you download the rest (25% or less) of the game a few days before it releases. This makes games playable at minute one of release. This has absolutely little to do the "PS3 sucking". in all honesty, 17 GB to download still shouldn't take more than a couple of hours even for slow connections. And for one last note, stop being an Xbox fanboy who doesn't even know that Xbox doesn't get downloadable games until about 2 weeks after their initial release and then has to download all 17GB at one time (sucks to suck).
What?! I think you've never downloaded anything onto an Xbox/PS3. It takes anywhere for 30 minutes to an hour and a half for 1GB to download depending on your connection. It takes me 2-3 hours to download a 2GB file and I have decent connection. 17GB, even with an extremely fast connection, would take at least 3 hours. Lmao no idea what you are talking about.
SeemPosted:
Wow why are they mad it is getting them money and that's before the game even come's out
Cruz-Posted:
Gmlukens Or you can just go out and buy the game...
I was going to do that untill my ps3 doesn't want to read disks anymore.. its pretty dumb that we need to wait untill the 16th to start the predownload..
Cruz-Posted:
i hate that Sony is being so dumb! they said we could pre download the game on the 13th. now most of the people wont have it downloaded by the 17th.
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