It's the one and only reason my friends and I stopped playing. I hope they take this patching opportunity to resolve a few more load time problems, because even a 70% reduction isn't really enough in my opinion. The load times in GTA are at least 5-10x longer than most games I play.

We used to call it Loading Screen Online. Really was a shame because I made some long-lasting friendships from that one game, many of whom I still play other games with.

Had they bothered to fix this early on as many of us begged them to do from day one of online's release, many of us would have stuck around far longer.

Oh well actually the shark card garbage coupled with ever-increasing item costs, as well as releasing the casino ~5 years late probably would have made me stop anyway.