Grand Theft Auto V has sold more copies than there are reruns of World's Wildest Police Chases on TV right now, but this did not stop GTA Online having some teething problems. Namely, some people were losing save information when going online. The latest patch aims to fix this problem. It is already out on PS3 and coming soon to 360.
There is a long list of tweaks in the latest patch, not least of which stops people losing character information:
Fixes multiple issues causing character deletion or other loss of progress Fixes issues causing infinite loading, infinite sky cams, and missing interface options between jobs Fixes an issue causing the "replay" option to be locked out on certain jobs Fixes an issue where a player would become stuck in the mod garage when respraying a Sanchez motor bike Fixes an issue where the Player became stuck inside Los Santos Customs during Online tutorial flow. Fixes an issue causing the loss of guns and ammo Fixes issues causing GTA races ending early because of players spawning too far ahead Fixes issues in Last Team Standing where sessions would not progress past the lobby Fixes issues with network errors when joining Last Team Standing using Quick Job Added clarifications around when a player is using a temporary character in GTA Online during Rockstar Cloud server outages Adjusts the monetary penalty for being killed in a One on One matchThis should be great comfort to those GTAV fans looking to go online with 15 chums, but something is still rotten in the state of Denmark.
We apologize for the problems some players have been experiencing with lost characters or game progress due to this issue - please stay tuned for updates as we continue to investigate this.
In the meantime, please always remember to save your game before leaving GTA Online, otherwise you may lose any progress since your last save - this can be done by exiting back to Single Player through the pause menu. Until downloading the title update above and in order to minimize the chances of any further data loss, if at any point you receive the message "Rockstar Cloud Servers are unavailable", please do not either select the "Retry" option or create a temporary Character to play GTA Online. Instead, you should exit to GTAV Story Mode and try entering GTA Online again through the menu in Story Mode.
Saving before exiting is always a good idea anyway, but especially if you could lose all your precious data.