NEWS - Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Rockstar PSA: GTA Online is Live, going through "growing pains"
According to Rockstar Games support site, the company is aware of at least six different issues including the unavailability of cloud servers, the timeout errors and a freezing problem with the first race.
"We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience while we work to resolve this," reads the support page, which Rockstar says will be updated as new issues are identified and others are resolved.
Source: http://www.polygon.com