"GTA Online"
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Since the release of "Grand Theft Auto Online" at the beginning of this month, the release has seen tons of issues all from log in difficulties to loading issues. Now a new issue has come up of gamers logging out of "GTA Online" to log back on and find their characters are missing. Well Rockstar has sent out an advisory to not create a new character until they can fix the issue. The company has instructed players who find an empty character slot to return to the story mode and then re-enter "GTA Online" through the pause menu. Only do this however, when the Rockstar Cloud Servers are working.

Many gamers are receiving a message saying the servers are unavailable, Rockstar encourages gamers to keep trying until they're working. Also Rockstar warns not to continue online with saving disabled, as this may overwrite your character. "If you have previously created a character but see an empty character selection screen when entering GTA Online, please back out to GTAV Story Mode and try re-entering GTA Online through the pause menu (repeat or wait until Rockstar cloud servers are back up). Do not create a new character in the empty slot where your character should be.

"If you receive the message 'The Rockstar Cloud Servers Are Unavailable', please return to GTAV Story Mode and follow the steps above. Please do not press 'Retry' on the message and do not proceed online with saving disabled, as this may lead to overwriting your existing character."

This temporary fix has come in news of players losing their characters when they log out of "GTA Online." Rockstar expected glitches and issues when the massive online aspect to "GTA" would launch but the game has seen one problem after the next. Hopefully Rockstar can manage to fix all the issues before gamers jump ship.

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