I'm so angry right now, that it's hard for me to concentrate on typing this properly, so forgive me if it's hard to read or follow.
I've spent nearly 50 hours playing the single player for this game, I've spent more time playing as my least favourite character than most of my friends have spent playing the entire game. I have uncovered every inch of the map, driven on every road, driven every vehicle, flown every aircraft, bought, upgraded and used every single weapon. I can navigate the map without using my radar or GPS. I have two saves both at 75% complete, and I've taken more pictures with Snapmatic than I've taken on any camera in the last 10 years of my life. It's safe to assume I know how to play the game.
So why the **** do I have to play an unskippable tutorial showing me how to race a car? Even the first driving mission in the single player was skippable, and that one didn't assume you had been teleported in from another universe in which GTA didn't ****ing exist. I would tolerate this pointless and idiotic tutorial if GTA Online was a standalone release, or maybe if it had been available the day the game shipped, instead we've had two weeks to get used to the mechanics of the game. Push the go button to go, push the stop button to stop, and use the wiggly stick thingy to change direction. It's not rocket science is it?
All of that would have been completely irrelevant and dismissed as a mild inconvenience, if the tutorial had worked, if all I had to do was sit through it once and never see it or think about it again. But what actually happened is that the tutorial can't be completed, for some reason, my Collectors Edition of the game does not allow me to progress past the tutorial. I've tried everything, for 8 hours on and off, and it fails at the same two places every single time. I can connect to the GTA Online servers, I can see my friends happily playing their standard editions and inviting me into their games, but I am refused access to the core function of the game because a bug is preventing me from completing something that should never had been in the game in the first place.
The real slap in the face is that I've spent £100 on the Collectors Edition, because I love the GTA series, I love Rockstar, and I wanted to go the extra mile to get something special and support one of my favourite developers. That decision, which I made for those reasons, has resulted in a day of frustration and anger, while watching people enjoying GTA Online who didn't support Rockstar that way, who don't care as much, who haven't spent as much time or money as I have.
The response from Rockstar is "we're working on it", I'm sure they will hush up the fact that this problem is mainly affecting Collectors Editions, and I will probably forget all about this once they fix it. But for now I am furious.
I thought it would still work with the jetliner sound of the disc spinning and play off that...