Rockstar confirms GTA Online launch issues

Having spent the best part of the afternoon trying to join up with the rest of the GRTV team for our GTA Online Live Stream, I can confirm firsthand that there are indeed several issues affecting some players following the launch of GTA Online.

Rockstar has detailed the known issues that players are experiencing, but it must be noted that many people are having no trouble at all. Here's the list as it stands:

- Occasional "Rockstar Cloud Servers Unavailable" error message
- Freezing sometimes while loading into first race in GTAO with "waiting for other players" on the screen
- Intermittent "Failed to Host a GTA Online Session" error messages
- Race Corona (start area, marker) occasionally not showing up for first race
- Errors saying "Timed out when matchmaking for a compatible GTA Online Session to join"
- Occasional errors about jobs failing to start or load
- General issues with the Social Club site and Social Club features (slow loading, failed logins, emails not arriving, etc)

With the amount of players logging on to Rockstar's servers, it's hardly surprising that they're heaving under the strain. If you're one of those having problems, it maybe worth waiting until the initial rush is over before logging back on, and hopefully by then most of the issues affecting players will have been ironed out.