There is so much to say about GTA Online. From its technical performance, to its ridiculously anti-fun design decisions and the frustrating mechanics that are trying to push you towards buying Shark Cards (buying in-game money with real money).
GTA Online is an extension of the Single Player game. It borrows the map, the mechanics and characters from the story, and turns it into aThere is so much to say about GTA Online. From its technical performance, to its ridiculously anti-fun design decisions and the frustrating mechanics that are trying to push you towards buying Shark Cards (buying in-game money with real money).
GTA Online is an extension of the Single Player game. It borrows the map, the mechanics and characters from the story, and turns it into a multiplayer game that focusses on the Dollar and everything that you can buy with it. You make a character with a laughably bad character creator, and you are then thrown into Los Santos. There's a tutorial that is rather confusing, and you are immediately bombarded with phone calls and messages from characters asking you to BUY something that you obviously can't purchase yet. You can play the game and save money until you have it (which will take you a veeeeery long time) or you can buy a shark card. And that's the core of the game. It is designed to entice the player to spend real money instead of playing the game.
You can buy apartments, garages, but also businesses. These can in turn be used to earn more money. There are also heists hidden behind paywalls, which are the businesses, and can be completed to earn even more money. Want a car? They are quite expensive. Want a Nightclub? Pay more money!! Want to buy a golden airplaine?? Guess what, you need more money!! And that wouldn't be an issue if Rockstar hadn't made the game a grind on purpose, with frustrating mission design and overly long loading screens. And worst, is that griefing is encouraged so that grinders are continuesly being harassed and make less money. All to make those shark cards more enticing.
With regular updates over the course of 7 years there is a lot to do within GTA Online, and there is genuine fun to be had. But it always comes with a but... and that's why GTA Online never manages to become something more than an average game. Worst of all, the succes of GTA Online seems to have changed Rockstar into a lazy game developer that barely releases new games, and designs them to be cash cows that swallow your time. The reason that GTA 6 isn't even announced after 7 years is due to GTA Online being very profitable, and that has made Rockstar lazy and complacent.
I give GTA Online a 6/10. I hate those F*cking MkII Opressors!… Expand
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