On Xbox 360 and PS3, GTA V and GTA Online have stopped receiving official updates, becoming lawless wastelands filled with powerful hackers and game-breaking mods. And while Rockstar does ban players, many have complained to me about being harassed and targeted with no support or punishment from Rockstar.
It is way too easy to harass other players, even without mods or cheats. Still, Rockstar isn’t doing enough to help keep this community healthy and positive. Some of the stunts people pull off are incredible, and the recent alien war is a great example of how the community can come together in positive ways. And the community is always finding new ways to impress and make me laugh. I’ve pulled off heists with people from all around the world. So many of them are young boys who seem dedicated to being the shittiest people they can be. I’ve overheard an incredible number of racists, sexists, and dirtbags while playing this game over the years.
Over the years the GTA Online community’s acquired a bad reputation, and a lot of it is deserved. If Rockstar were ever to remove these older, less-wanted bits it would almost instantly receive complaints from angry gamers who hadn’t’ even touched those modes in years. Yet it is all part of the big, enormous GTA Online buffet. Nobody cares about boring deathmatches in 2020. Nobody plays the parachuting missions in 2020. Nobody really wants those gross, hard little rolls, but if they weren’t there at least a few people would complain. And like any large buffet, parts of it feel like it’s only there because, well, it has to be. This mix of mundane and wild, of over the top and grounded and boring and crazy, is part of GTA Online’s charm. It’s a game where police officers still send cars and helicopters to stop players driving hover tanks and shooting lasers. GTA Online’s become a strange game, where you’ll end up owning multiple businesses, several military bases, and dozens of weaponized cars, yet will still be asked to help a random gang member sell a bit of weed. It is strange that when starting your new game as a nobody, low-level criminal, so many powerful people are falling over themselves to reach out to you. Some of these missions and events involve global corporations, the FBI, and powerful criminal kingpins. There are numerous people vying for your attention, different businesses to buy, things to upgrade, events to join, and heists to undertake. Jumping into GTA Online today is extremely overwhelming. Again, these are all things you can still do in GTA Online, but it’s moved far beyond that, and soon your phone will blow up with text messages and phone calls from seven years’ worth of characters and factions. You shoot some random gang members, steal back some drugs, race a few streetcars, and change your clothes.
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