So I see I'm not the only one with that very specific problem. I've been locked out of even single player mode for over 3 month and everything from router restarts, manual Social Club reinstalls and DNS reconfiguration have only marginal effect.

And now I know why complaints about the issue are so hard to come by; apparently it's so specific to regional ISPs that it's not widely reported. Someone had to have flipped a switch that pretty much rendered whole ranges of IPs useless for GTA5, but it's so under-the-table that we can only guess how and why it happened. My guess is that it's yet another scattershot solution by Rockstar to curb cheaters.

So the only workaround is to keep resetting the router until we get an IP that works?

This post has been edited by Parrot: Jul 23 2019, 02:46 PM

I must have the shittiest luck because I've probably restarted an excess of nearly 15 times and the best I got was on the 5th attempt when there was a momentary connection to the RSC website and a code verification window in the GTA5 launcher (which failed to accept my Steam code) before that IP is immediately blocked.

Fuck this connection and fuck this wretched game. The IP ranges must had been blacklisted as sources of scam/spam and Rockstar netcoding probably blocked all of them bit by bit. I have never seen any game with netcoding that poorly accounts for any of this.

What's even worse is that this is also locking me out of what is supposed to be offline-friendly single player. At this rate I'm starting to consider simply uninstalling this piece of shit game. It's been nothing more than a 80GB paperweight for the past 3 months.

This post has been edited by Parrot: Jul 23 2019, 05:49 PM