10 Promising Video Games That Totally Botched Their Launch

Despite Grand Theft Auto V being a bonafide success, selling over 85 million copies, Rockstar struggled a little more when it came to the game's online component. Grand Theft Auto Online was hit by massive amounts of traffic that resulted in the early days of its online systems being a complete mess.

Alongside the usual inability to connect and get into the game, Grand Theft Auto Online bore a number of other problems too. Players would find their characters completely transformed after attempting to log in, or discover that they had been deleted entirely.

Rockstar created a dedicated support page on the game's website to deal solely with issues about the online mode, but the servers were crippled beneath the weight of everyone attempting to get a taste of GTA's new online mode and in hindsight, it's hard not to have seen this coming.

Grand Theft Auto V made $1 billion in its first three days on sale. The game was so popular that the launch issues plaguing Grand Theft Auto Online even made the BBC. Needless to say that despite it all, the game retained its success and went on to become the best-selling game of all-time in the US.