The Problem With GTA Online

I find it ironic that gta was about the parody of greed and corrupt business culture in USA yet it becomes the thing it make fun of

The game is called Grand Theft Auto yet I can't steal cars and store them in my garage

Rockstar likes to patch money glitches as quickly as they come out, but they leave game breaking glitches that ruin other players’ fun and just let them stay for years. It’s like when they see players having fun, they’re like “Nope, you can’t do that, and now we’re going to ban you for trying to not give us money!” But nahh, when they see game breaking glitches that ruin other player’s fun they’re like “Eh, they’ll still give us money, keep that glitch in there for another year!”

I like to come back to this video occasionally and see how literally nothing changed

you know the economy is broken when a hacker joins and instead of hate, they get idolised and asked to bless players with money

I remember when everyone's goal on GTA Online was to live in Eclipse Tower, own the Truffade Adder and steal a jet from the mili base.

the most saddest thing about it is that this video has been posted 2 years ago and gta online is still the same way it was 2 years ago, its sad to see that this game who originated from a wholesome game with wholesome people with your only problem being someone succesfuly stealing a jet in the mili base, but now it turned into a toxiciticy school for players and where you have to worry about how not to get killed by a kid in an avenger dropping 69 rockets on your ass for no reason.

This video actually made me feel a little sick realizing how much time I have wasted in this game and how fruitless it is. This game has taken over my life for the past two weeks since I started playing it again after a long break, and it’s all been so I can keep slowly raising my character’s net worth. I think I’m gonna delete GTA V

“GTA should be a game, not a job.” Now THAT is a quote

Cars when you buy them: 1.7M Cars when you sell them for vehicle warehouse: 100k

> A cheater problem, long loading times, broken economy, OP greifing tools Rockstar "I sleep" >Money glitch to make the grind a little less tedious Rockstar "Execute order 66"

The problem is, people can't cheat right, most people cheat nowadays, because earning money is boring ASF

Remember when you could walk outside without getting shot by a flying bike

Gta iv: a little bag of diamonds= 2M GTA V: robs a fcking casino full of diamonds: 2.9m Rip economy

I know I'm incredibly late to this video but the algorithm led me here and I have a few words on this. I was actually a new player in 2019. I got the game for my 18th birthday in March 2019, and when I hopped into online it was a nightmare. One of my very first experiences as a new player was being relentlessly harassed by a 12 year old boy on Mk II oppressor until his friend realized what was going on and made him chill out. Funnily enough, after that incident I became friends with that 12 year old boy and his crew and they were the ones that helped me gain some footing in the game. If it weren't for them, I may have entirely abandoned GTA online because there was absolutely nothing going for me as a brand new player. Everything good costs a ridiculous amount of money, jobs pay out in practically pennies, and I sure as hell couldn't afford to buy shark cards, so it was pretty much pointless to try. If I hadn't met more experienced players and had them take me under their wing (and run me through Bogdan repeatedly) I wouldn't have gotten anywhere at all. Now I have a nightclub, facility, bunker, avenger, terrorbyte, one of each kind of illicit business, my own office, a handful of nice vehicles, and a high end apartment, and yet I have NO incentive to engage with any of those things because the payout is so pathetic that it isn't worth the time I would have to invest in them and most of the missions related to those things require you to have other people to successfully complete them or put you in a situation where you're most likely to just get blown up by an oppressor and lose out on all your profits anyway. It's impossible to make any progress as a solo player on GTA online, and even with friends to help, it's still incredibly difficult and time consuming. I hate that everything I have in the game is directly the result of repeating the same heist over and over until I could recite the cutscenes in my sleep because it's the only efficient way to make enough money to buy anything worthwhile. Don't get me wrong, I had a lot of fun playing GTA online when I was still active, but only because of the people I met and made friendships with, not because the game itself was fun. GTA online is an incredibly tedious and frustrating experience and I really wish it wasn't. I've been a fan of Rockstar and the GTA series since I was just a child and seeing a series I grew up loving become so corrupted by corporate greed is just really depressing and makes me worry about the future of the series

One of the biggest problems with the heists is the mission design. Mostly, the organisation missions are far more fun because even when they reuse heist locations, they let you hit the objectives more free form, taking any approach that technically fulfils the objective. Steal a tank? You can jump in it and try to drive away, or you could have a friend do that while you get a cargobob copter and hook the tank to fly it to the objective while they use the turret on the AI. That's the kind of freedom GTAO should be all about, but the heists will give you harsh game overs for looking at an NPC the wrong way, or even just not using the exact road they scripted for you to drive on. Not to mention that at launch, whenever you hit one of these many failstates, the A button, which is usually repsawn in other modes, was for some reason "disband group" in heists only. Meaning if any 1 player in the group hit A out of muscle memory when they died, all 4 players would be kicked from the group and returned to the lobby. So more than half the time I ever spent playing heists, was just trying to actually get the missions to start.

Damn man, remember when the biggest achievement in the game was stealing a jet from the military base?

A game that already made $6 billion dollars shouldn’t have to try and squeeze money out of you

I was a day one player. I remember grinding so hard to buy the Casco for 640k. It took hours of Ticket to Elysium lol the Adder at $1m seemed impossible and insane. 2.2m from the warehouse drops was like manna from heaven. I can't imagine what new players in 2022 are experiencing. To not have followed the inflation along the way would be devastating. Everything you've said is sad and true. I wish it were different.

A friend of mine once gave me a lift in his chopper. When I got to the destination I jumped out. Right when I wanted to pull my parachute I got called by Moris mutual ensurance and I couldn’t use it and fell to my death. LOL