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Comment by ThomW

5 years ago

Load times is absolutely the primary reason I quit playing.

Same here, being slow as molasses really spoiled the game for me. I wonder if the same software quality caused other unnecessary in-game loading times. I felt that time spent playing GTA:O was about 60% waiting in lobby/playing, and the remaining 40% actual play time. Same with RDR2 by the way.

  • These problems come down to which programmers were allowed to remain on the team and how much they were allowed to change. So all similar performance problems will remain.

I can stomach a long load time (but that's not to excuse how godawful this load time is), just as long as it's worth it. I need some kind of resolution/ultimate goal, but in GTA:O there really isn't one; it's just grind-grind-grind so that you can get yet another car, or another house, or another thing that you already have plenty of. Lather, rinse, repeat in perpetuity.

I just felt like every time I logged in I went, "So what's the point here?".