for the love of god oh please dont play the online mode oh god please stop dont oh please oh god stop

downgrade the game if you can rockstar keeps killing this game with bugs from online, or mod the game (people who actually care patch out the bugs that the incompetant developers kept bringing to the game)

perhaps try obtaining the game through another source once you buy it, like the type of source that removes the online requirement for verification, or verification entirely. jacksparrow it perhaps. now where would you find that? gee i dunno im just a guy who wrote a steam guide I dunno what you are talking about, no clue whatsoever nope not encouraging stealing why would i do that