Rockstar Games

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2018–2026), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Rockstar Games, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 8 complaints

Loading times have been slow for years, making the platform painful to use2026-04-12
Games requiring a separate launcher deter the commenter from buying them2025-11-08
Account deletion traps user in endless captcha loops, gave up after a dozen tries2024-08-18
Must solve 30 captcha puzzles in a row for each login attempt2024-02-18
Forced confusing account creation through unfamiliar Microsoft and live.com accounts to play2022-02-04
Legitimate game copies have user-hostile, garbage-filled experience compared to pirated versions2021-12-29
Browser version of the site loads painfully slowly with no good reason2021-03-01
Can't find the download button for the game installer on the Rockstar site, requiring many steps and re-logins2018-12-02