GTA Online Rocks Most Player Count Ever in an Online Game – No Wonder Server Problems Exist

GTA Online Has The Largest Player Count Ever Recorded in Gaming Industry in So Short A Timespan

Well GTA Online is infact currently the Online Game with the highest player count. The Current Estimation of the GTA Online Players is around 15  Millions (At Launch). No wonder the servers are crashing. Whats more, most online games have had years to establish server and infrastructure, GTA Online had 1 Days.

Most Online Games Have Years to Develop Their Infrastructure, GTA Online Went in Blind .

This is the other main problem. In an online game, Player Count
increases gradually over time. As the strain increases the developers
upgrade the hardware and backend in sync. Problem is GTA Online went in
completely blind. Absolutely Blind. They had no idea how many buyers of
the GTA V would come online the first day, they could guess sure, but
overestimate and take a loss, underestimate and complete server
blackout.

• World Of Warcraft Had 9 Years.
• Eve Online Had 10 Years.
• Dota 2 Had Around 3 Years.
• League of Legend Had Around 5 Years.
• GTA Online Had 1 Day.

See the difference? its mind blowing. Consider it a miracle that even
after 15 Million People (At Launch) simultaneously  signing in at
Launch didnt cause a complete outage. It would take them some time to
deal with the massive influx of players in so short a time. If they are
willing to invest, the problems should be solved in about a week or so – enough time to update backend hardware to an optimum level.