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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