The analogy is a little bad, since 343i worked closely with Microsoft and already had Halo's own experience of servers and such to go off of.
Rockstar is, or as far as I know aside from that little minor GTA IV online thing, trying something a little more new. And given the ridiculous demand from some millions of players, anyone's servers would be crippled. They had to open MP sometime though and work on the real world situation rather than making assumptions and working off of those.
In a sense, it's a beta right now. I don't see why you would expect much.





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