Remember when waiting an hour felt like a punishment? Now it’s a prerequisite for buying a piece of plastic with RGB lights. Players reported sitting in virtual queues for 45 to 90 minutes, only to get booted back to the start. Fun, right?
One guy on Reddit joked he watched an entire Ted Talk on procrastination while waiting. The irony? The queue system was officially called “Patient Gamer.” I’m not making that up. Rockstar really named their torture method after a virtue.
And let’s talk about those login errors. “Server Too Busy,” “Session Expired,” and my personal favorite: “Invalid Credentials”—even though you literally just reset your password. It’s like the website is gaslighting you into thinking you don’t exist.
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Of course, within two hours, eBay was flooded with listings. “GTA 6 LIMITED EDITION CONTROLLER – RARE – $450.” Yeah, $450 for a controller that retails for $79.99. You have to admire the audacity, though—like, sir, this isn’t a Picasso painting. It’s a controller that will eventually be in stock at Best Buy.
But here’s the kicker: some pre-order pages crashed because of bot traffic. A bot, my friends, is just a script written by a bored teenager. So, a teenager’s homework is now the reason you can’t spend your hard-earned cash. Take that, capitalism.
I even saw a tweet from a guy who said, “I’d rather fight a GTA Online jet griefer than try to pre-order this controller again.” And he’s not wrong. At least the griefer has a human face.
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