Rockstar's Social Club is Live!

by Terrence Stasse { Apr 17th 2008 at 7:30PM }

In anticipation for some time now, and even pushed back a bit, the Rockstar Games Social Club is now open for pre-registration. For those not in the know, the Social Club will allow registered players to view leaderboards, track stats, and generally be connected to Rockstar's community. We're glad to see that more developers are giving their community better tools to provide them with content, as well as keeping interest for their game high. If you're going to be playing a lot of GTA IV (who isn't?) you could do worse than heading over there and setting up a profile. Hell, we did that very thing before you even read this!

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]

Tags: gta-iv, rockstar, rockstar-social-club, social-club

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Paul @ Apr 17th 2008 7:33PM

very niiiiiice ... registering now!

mcwattersm @ Apr 17th 2008 7:57PM

So uh how to you link your Gamertag?

BrokenMonkey @ Apr 17th 2008 10:44PM

They'll probably let you do it soon enough, in the edit profile section of the site. Just a guess though.

Cal @ Apr 18th 2008 11:51AM

I think it's more likely to be done from the game itself, like EA do with FIFA, where you enter your email and password to link them.

Sorry that I used EA in a GTA sentence =(

D Boy Flex @ Apr 17th 2008 8:22PM

It seems like the site is only partialy functioning. There is no way yet (it seems) to link your gamertag. Really, you can't do anything except change your little profile picture. I guess in time, once the game gets closer will they increase the functionality of the site. I guess one can only hope at this point.

Terrence Stasse @ Apr 17th 2008 8:26PM

Remember, it is technically "Pre-Registration"

Jomolungma @ Apr 17th 2008 10:17PM

I'm not certain on this, but I imagine that R* is doing a pre-registration to seed their database and get an early take on community size. This will help them make sure they have enough servers and bandwidth on the 29th to make the experience worthwhile. I'm sure they think they'll get a lot, and have probably planned for a lot, but as MSFT proved over Christmas, you never have enough hardware.

If they are doing this, there is no reason to take all of the profile information that they will eventually require. Since the Zit and stat tracking services aren't live, they don't need no stinkin' Gamertag or Amazon.com account information right now. I expect that the profile will significantly expand on the 29th as the rest of the site's functionality roles out.

OBM @ Apr 17th 2008 8:38PM

It was up for literally a few minutes, because I was refreshing the page all day, and by the time I'd entered my details and got the email, 12k people had already registered : S

Ample Salty @ Apr 17th 2008 8:44PM

I had the site open on the http://www.rockstargames.com/socialclub/ page (which still says that pre-reg is coming) so I didn't see it till I came here. I got like 19k and something.

In regards to account linking, in the Help FAQs section it says we won't be able to until the site is properly open on the 29th.

Jonah Falcon @ Apr 17th 2008 11:00PM

Anyone notice a resemblance between the player card and the Gamercard.net version of an Xbox Live gamertag? (grin)

wa27 @ Apr 17th 2008 11:10PM

cool, got member number 10439 :D

nerrrrrrd @ Apr 17th 2008 11:21PM

I wouldn't be surprised if the registration #s actually started at 10,000. I have yet to hear anyone say they're member #09,999 or less!

wa27 @ Apr 17th 2008 11:28PM

Yeah, member numbers started at 10000. They're past 30,000 now, 20 thousand registered in just a few hours!

Don Wilson @ Apr 17th 2008 11:36PM

They've blocked me from registering... Perhaps I selected 1996 instead of 1986 for the year? I think they block by IP because I can't register at all..

WTF. Heaven forbid someone make a mistake using their crappy flash interface.

Halonut1 @ Apr 18th 2008 12:07AM

Flash sites fail, Hard. I mean granted you can make things move and look pretty. But at the cost of speed and effectiveness. i hope the "Main part" of the site isnt flash...

dylan @ Apr 18th 2008 3:02AM

try deleting your cookies and restarting?

andyface @ Apr 18th 2008 4:56AM

#43594

Nothing particularly special about the pre-registration. I'm a little disappointed by my elephant.

Oh and yeah flash=rubbish! As a web designer/developer type person I never use it. It's just plain annoying and for accessibility it's pathetic, hope they change it on the site as it's got some errors which really make it look stuipid.