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Opinion: How GTA Online Cracked the Live Service Format | MMORPG.com

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited July 2023 in News & Features Discussion

imageOpinion: How GTA Online Cracked the Live Service Format | MMORPG.com

GTA V is one of the most successful video games ever made, with Rockstar Games breaking seven Guinness World Records when the game launched. GTA V is one of the best-selling and highest-grossing entertainment products ever made, but what keeps the game alive almost a decade since its release? Its online component GTA Online has been thriving and shows no signs of slowing down.

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  • NeoyoshiNeoyoshi Member RarePosts: 1,450
    edited July 2023
    This article got me at 'Live service'

    GTA online vets could write whole novels on the issues GTA5's online game services has; which is why most GTAO players just go to private/RP/player-run servers for GTAO.

    Rockstars online service is complete garbage, and this is coming from someone whose played quite a lot of GTAO, because the content itself is good, which makes it that more frustrating when dealing with Rockstars servers.


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  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,273
    edited July 2023
    My first "not-proper MMORPG" roleplaying in a "multiplayer game with actual graphics" experience was on GTA private servers, great laugh. I had done the likes of AC by then but that was proper MMORPG stuff.
  • Jaguaratron1Jaguaratron1 Member UncommonPosts: 299
    GTA V is still amazing, the GTA Online experience however was dull and is packed with griefers and cheaters.

    Sadly due to the world we live in I expect GTA 6 to go the way of Saints Rows wokepocalyse
  • cameltosiscameltosis Member LegendaryPosts: 3,832
    I absolutely loved GTAV, easily the best in the series and it still looks and plays amazing.


    But GTAO?


    Nothing but bad experiences for me. In the open world, anything I tried to do was immediately shut down but some high level dude with a helo or rocket launcher. So, basically all of the sandbox features of GTAO sucked balls because of griefers.

    That left the themepark stuff.

    Some of it was great. I loved doing some of the heists in a group of 4, really great content. But, that was soooooo rare. Most of the time I was either sat in a queue for ages because the content I wanted to do wouldn't pop. Or, I queued for random stuff and ended up in dogshit races against players with vastly superior cars.
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  • Pher0ciousPher0cious Member RarePosts: 526
    edited July 2023
    "How GTA Online Cracked the Live Service Format"

    Bruh. A couple of rich kids with no jobs or responsibilities, spreading their daddies wallets on GTA V Online all day does not equate to "cracked the live service format"

    Check your privilege at the door when you enter GAMING. Thanks.
    ('''\( ',.:.,' )/''')
  • AngrakhanAngrakhan Member EpicPosts: 1,750
    And here I thought it was because GTA gamified hooliganism and debauchery and the players came like moths to the flame or flies to the cow patty if you will.
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  • IselinIselin Member LegendaryPosts: 18,719
    Not what I expected when I see GTA and Crack in the same sentence.
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  • UtinniUtinni Member EpicPosts: 2,209
    I think the audience, just like FIFA, has more to do with the "cracking" of the format than the game itself.
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