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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SkreamiesPosted:
yo2434Vape-CPskeletorbx 17GB
i could easily download this in about 2hrs or less
Anyone who does not live in the 1990s anymore can download it that fast.
Not everyone lives in an area that is able to have access to good internet, I only have 4-5mb down most of the time.
Up until this month, cable wasn't even in my area. I have 3mb down right now. But i will have 15-20 soon.
Though I don't have a PS3, I feel bad for some of the people with bad internet, recently I got BT Infinity and I'm getting 80mb download/ 40md upload/ 20 ping
yo2434Posted:
Vape-CPskeletorbx 17GB
i could easily download this in about 2hrs or less
Anyone who does not live in the 1990s anymore can download it that fast.
Not everyone lives in an area that is able to have access to good internet, I only have 4-5mb down most of the time.
Up until this month, cable wasn't even in my area. I have 3mb down right now. But i will have 15-20 soon.
ErebdraugPosted:
-CPskeletorbx 17GB
i could easily download this in about 2hrs or less
Anyone who does not live in the 1990s anymore can download it that fast.
Not everyone lives in an area that is able to have access to good internet, I only have 4-5mb down most of the time.
VEVOPosted:
-CPskeletorbx 17GB
i could easily download this in about 2hrs or less
Anyone who does not live in the 1990s anymore can download it that fast.
When the servers are being simultaneously flooded by possibly millions of unique PS3s downloading the same file, yeah um no. You definitely won't be able to download it anywhere near that fast. That is precisely why people are pissed. And you can see why people with slower connections would be even more pissed.
-CPPosted:
skeletorbx 17GB
i could easily download this in about 2hrs or less
Anyone who does not live in the 1990s anymore can download it that fast.
MultitaskPosted:
Daw That's why you buy a hard copy of the game.
yea i am going to do that got a bad internet /:
MultitaskPosted:
daRealRush 17gb file, damn, this really must be a big game!
yea it is it will take 3-5 hrs for me to download D:.
LuckyOtterPosted:
Guys if you start downloading as soon as you wake up Monday morning then you should finish before midnight. If you don't then it definatly should be finished before Tuesday morning. If your still not done by the time you get home from work/school on Tuesday then I would suggest looking for some better internet. Also if your internet is that slow maybe you should have bought the disk version where the install is only 8 gigs and its extremely short since its from a disk and not the internet.
neboPosted:
My internet is decent, but I know that it took about 1 and a half hours to download 1 gigabyte on my mom's connection, so that sucks
UrfPosted:
McNuggets_JrUrfI suggest you post proof and stop making allegations.McNuggets_JrBreezy4G You guys have to realize that it's not PlayStation's fault.So Rockstar sent Sony a load of SECRET media files and Sony just puts them up for download? Yeah, of course it's Rockstars fault!
It's Rockstar's fault for the leaked files.
I actually have the files myself pre-loaded to my PS3.
But there is no use for it.
Yea, actually it is, dip ****. Rockstar told them to put it on hold because of all the leaks.
Really, why else would they put it on hold? Use your **** head.
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