Welp..... - Grand Theft Auto Online - GameFAQs

GTA is an amazing game and easily the most earning of all time.
But now it’s being ruined by rockstar themselves. There’s so many things wrong in the game that don’t make sense or just shouldn’t exist. In fact, it costs 60 dollars to buy a helicopter and a plane. Sixty dollars, that’s still hours of grinding in the game and in real life. Then the vehicles rockstar is adding, about half a year ago (i don’t know when) a flying hover bike was added to the game that has missiles that cannot miss. This little bike overpowers nearly anything in the game with its missiles. It can destroy a hydra or an insurgent in just a couple shots. It’s gotten to a point where cars are considered useless depending on the amount of rockets they can take. Think of the ruiner 2000, it used to be a fun vehicle to ride around and climb buildings until it could be destroyed In a single explosive. The Deluxo also exists, but it’s so expensive and slow it’s just a minor problem. But then, it’s on the casino wheel and you can get it for free with a glitch. But don’t worry rockstar will patch the glitch before it’s overly abused. End of the week comes, it’s not fixed, the next one. And ever since it hasn’t been fixed. The sad thing is that it’s been in the game for so much longer before that. You would thing glitches like the casino chip glitch would be patched. Now this one was heavily “guarded” you have a major chance of getting your account reset after doing this. But what stops them from doing it again and again until they don’t get banned. Now let me go back to the shark card problem. 60 dollars will get you a helicopter and a plane. Which I already mentioned, but did I mention that everything entire car in the game and plane and jet and property and upgrade for avenger terrobyte and so much more. Everything in the game would cost you. Drumroll please, over 5700 dollars. Wow, now why would you do that when you could get access to everything in the game including infinite cash glitches special vehicles and fucking transformers made of cars. For just, 30, dollars. MODDERS. It’s a nice first impression on new players trying to get into the game when the second they join they are either getting trillions of dollars in seconds or they are being trapped in cages and blown up. Now I think it’s obvious rockstar is only in it for the money so if this doesn’t motivate them nothing will. IF THEY HAVE TRILLIONS THEY WONT BUY SHARK CARDS. I play on Xbox so modders are extremely rare for me and are one in a billion but when you do find them they are ruthless. This game is getting so many new vehicles that break the game that the gta map is almost seeming small to me. I mean really when you can fly around the map in seconds. Then pvp is a joke. Drugs make your gun stronger, people blow themselves up before dying, there are so many people that fight for their KDr that they get scared when you drive next to them with an rc car and immediately kill themselves. R* has done some things to patch these. For example there is a cool down on killing yourself and going into passive mode after shooting people. But instead they just blow themselves up.
There are so many other problems that I don’t even want to begin trying to type out and I’m getting most of it from this video.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F-artC4LNV4
Good lord the problems and carelessness with this game is horrible, I’m a level 124 and I play daily and grind casino heists with my friends I’ve never glitches for money or spent money on the game. Only glitch I’ve ever done is to get deluxo on the wheel. (Look there’s no way to resist that) And it hurts me to see this games community to go to shit there are so many bad things about it that I question if they even have internet to see us complain
But Good Lord This game has gone to shit and I hope gta6 is better and bigger
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F-artC4LNV4
If you can’t click that link the video is called The problem with GTA online
Have a sexy day

Online is in the best place it’s been in a long time - Change my mind
Look, I know everyone likes to get their money the clean way and everything is crazy expensive but I’d argue GTA Online is maybe in the best spot I’ve seen it in a long time (post bikers GTA). So let’s do a run down.
I think a lot of people sit here and yearn for the good old days when everything was simple, before there were businesses and so much to upkeep. I agree that the upkeep can absolutely wear on you if you push the businesses too hard. And I also loved GTA Online prior to this, but bias aside, businesses gave it the legs it needed to keep going. Heists were great and all but after that was the Ill Gotten Gains to Cunning Stunts stretch where the game really worse itself thin. Businesses breathed life into a game that was without a doubt dying at that point, with burnout at an all time high and it trying to find it’s footing of where to go next. But it also gave griefers a new outlet, promoted them to be bigger dicks than they’d ever been before, and brought out the worst of them all: the hydra griefer. And there was no real counter at that point. You could try to get away long enough to get a jet of your own but your only real option was to either spend time counter killing them til they leave or change sessions and hope there weren’t any in the new one. (Solo session yeah yeah but that’s always a thing so it’s a moot point)
Times were simpler, but I wouldn’t say everything was super peachy at that point. Now let’s look at the other major updates that followed:
Gunrunning: This was maybe the most hyped update I’ve seen because A) You run guns and B) Everyone thought the death of Jet griefers was imminent. Except none of the vehicles were great hydra counters. A half track, APC, and the anti-aircraft trailer can take down your less intelligent jet griefers, but they’re not reliable enough to discourage it all together. The explosive sniper would eventually contribute to the death of jet griefing but not for a while as it was locked behind Research so it would take a bit for it to become a commonly held weapon. We also got the dreaded Oppressor with this update. The go to for your lazy griefers. It was a great tool for grinding though, and was only super problematic at this point as it lacked solid counters besides light poles. Overall though, would call Gunrunning a good addition to the game but the period that immediately followed it lackluster. It was exciting to have a new business and see all these new toys added to the game but with everything locked behind research it took a while for Gunrunning to really showcase all it had to offer. Lazy griefers also had a new ez mode toy to use and it took a bit for people to adjust.
Smugglers Run: Absolute garbage new business added and insane prices for the new planes. It also came out very shortly after Gunrunning. The combined price of these 2 DLCs is insane and with Gunrunning being the only viable new business the opportunity to actually enjoy what Smugglers Run had to offer wasn’t really available in the immediate period afterwards. Looking back, I like a lot of the planes added, but there were some that could’ve used some extra oomph. But that didn’t matter since you couldn’t afford them at that point. We did get easy access to Fort Zancudo though, which is the one prop I’d give to this DLC. But overall it didn’t really add anything but a money sink and for that I don’t think anyone can argue the game was in a great state at this point.
Doomsday Heist: Now this is the spot where someone could say that was the peak of GTA Online and I could see their point but throw down a hard disagree. The heists were great, and the replay ability was strong as well with the challenge of the final heist well balanced by the easiness of Bogdan. And Bogdan provided an amazing avenue of money making for those sick of grinding businesses and desiring to buy all of the shiny new toys added in Gunrunning and Smugglers Run. We also got the Deluxo (and the Stromberg but the Stromberg only started to get its time to shine recently as it was heavily slept on for a while). At this point enough people had their explosive snipers to the point where jet griefing was finally becoming a more uncommon occurrence, and the deluxo was a great counter balance/complement to the oppressor thanks to its lower speed/better missiles against the oppressors higher speed/worse missiles. There’s very little to complain about with this update except for... The Orbital Cannon. This thing took forever to get a half decent patch and you couldn’t do anything in a lobby without feeling nervous about the person with 5 X’s in their name and combat gear suddenly teleporting to their facility. Big no.
After Hours: I think this one speaks for itself. The Nightclub itself was cool but underwhelming with it’s popularity missions, the warehouse provided a fantastic new source of passive income, and the Oppressor mk2 became the new poster boy for everything bad about GTA Online (which at this point is fair while everyone was scrambling to figure out how to counter it) except at this point we already had futuristic shit like the Deluxo and it’s easily the best vehicle in the game for grinding. Overall a good update but not a great period for online with the infant oppressor mk2 and lingering orbital cannon issue.
Arena War: Hot garbage period for the game, I took one of my longer breaks from the game at this point. Remember that Lester Glitch where everyone spun around at the airport for days on end? And remember how everyone thought Rockstar was going to do a money wipe? They didn’t do a money wipe because they didn’t need to! This dlc was so outrageously expensive to the point where your money from that glitch was gone after buying the workshop and a handful of arena vehicles. The game modes can be fun but the payouts and matchmaking are garbage and in the blink of an eye the whole thing became an afterthought. Like with smugglers run the vehicles added are crazy fun but locked behind a big paywall so they couldn’t be fully enjoyed in the period of the game that immediately followed. Arena War is something I’m glad exists now as it added a load of fun vehicles that didn’t dramatically change the landscape of the game like weaponized vehicles of past updates did, but the period following was brutally rough for the game as the new activity was incredibly expensive and lackluster and all the issues from before were still around.
Diamond Casino: Not much to say about this one, casino was neat, added some fantastic money glitches, free car every week, cool new vehicles added that weren’t weaponized, and a sweet penthouse. “Oh but the penthouse is so expensive and I have to buy it to get VIP in the casino blah blah blah”. No, the fully upgraded penthouse is but that’s not something I have a problem with as it was all just fluff for people with the money to burn. The cost of the base penthouse is easily recouped by running through the Ms. Baker missions as host and they’re all easy as hell and the whole thing takes like an hour. You also get a free armored Paragon R for the trouble too. So that complaint about the penthouse is a moot point when you’re just too lazy to actually play through the missions the DLC added. Besides the casino there wasn’t a whole lot new to do otherwise though and there was still one particular lingering issue that had been around since Doomsday Heist that wasn’t patched yet. At least not until near the end of this DLC period, when the Orbital Cannon finally received the changes it needed. But that only meant that in the final ~1 month of this DLC period online was in a slightly better place, but we had still gone 2 major updates without a new form of income (at least that didn’t involve gaming the casino), and 3 major updates without an active avenue for making money.
Enter Casino Heist: In this DLC we got the arcade, the diamond casino heist, and some nice new non weaponized vehicles to add to our collections. The arcade is an improved source of passive income to the Nightclub (wall safe not the warehouse) as it will bring in $5k a day if you fill the floor with games (you don’t need to buy every game btw, you just buy Monkey’s Paradise for $90k and then in Arcade Management on the interaction menu you can put it in every slot on the floor). But the biggest draws by far are the MCT and the Casino Heist itself. The MCT is an improved version of what you have in your terrorbyte and makes managing businesses soooooo much easier. The Casino Heist itself is by far the best Heist in the game with the 3 different approaches and then sub options within those giving it excellent replay ability. You can also set it up in free roam which is fantastic. It has a great payout on it’s own vs the time it takes to set it up and for those looking for even quicker money it’s an improved Bogdan. In the period following we also got Open Wheel Races and new contact missions which is nothing too special but definitely welcome extra content to have some fun with. With such a large gap since the last time an ez mode griefing vehicle was added as well I think we’ve also reached the point where all of that is as balanced as it can be as everyone’s figured out which vehicles and weapons counter others.
And that brings me to my final point - online is as good as it’s been in a long time. The biggest gripe is mostly in regards to how much there is available to buy and how impossible the grind can feel. If you’re in this situation I would highly encourage you to explore finding people to play with (if you’re dead set on legitimate gains) or exploring less honest ways of making money like duping or running b2b Bogdan or casino heist. There’s so much to do in Online that gets lost behind what feels like the endless wall of grinding. I have everything I could ask for and then some for future updates. Running my businesses no longer feels like something I have to do, and it’s actually surprisingly enjoyable/rewarding when it’s not surrounded by stress. More than that, dicking around in different vehicles, having fun with friends and randoms, and helping them out feels so much more enjoyable because I don’t feel like I’m losing time I could be spending grinding. So get that money and live a little. There’s a lot to love about Online right now, and when you’re not tunnel visioned on grinding you’ll realize that there’s a lot of what made OG Online so great alive and well still. It will never be the same, but different doesn’t have to mean worse.
Hell at this point I almost wish they’d add some more crazy vehicles to mess around with instead of all standard ones.

So I used to love playing on GTA online and I'll admit I like the GTA series but the online aspect is degrading. I flat out quit because of it's fall and I started at the start. Why I quit is for a few reasons. 1: the pay walls. I know you can grind to get money and I did but it got boring. Set up, set up, set up, heist, gas station, repeat. And if you are a new player or just poor, you buy a shark card and have barely enough to buy one of the carbon copy super cars. Oh! You want to fight another player? Then pay-up and buy upgrades for your starter piston and get murked by little Jimmy who bought a tank with daddy's shark card. That leads me to 2: players and weapons. The weapons get to a formula of what does the most damage and you no longer feel the fun of having a good tactic for combat since nowadays you have laser mini gun,orbatal strike, oppressor Mk.2 and then that's combat. No fun, just a formula. Then once you do get the counterfeit cash business since that's the cheapest business and your tired of grinding, you are greeted at the door with griefers and more grinding. And if you want to have just a shred of fun, think again. You will get blown up, crushed via terrabyte, have a tank dropped on you and then and only then.... It will get infinitely worse. You want to just walk outside your house?, No! Get blown up with my jet. Or there's the groups who drive around and make playing extra HELL. You better have your friends if you have any and waste 3 hours till they maybe will quit. Then there's 3: rockstar them selves. I loved making glitched outfits since that's one of the few things you can do inside and have fun with. Well no. That's not making rockstar money so they'll patch it immediately so they can funnel your options to having sterilized fun doing money intensive task with a arena war coat. You want to give your terrabyte a low rider set of wheels?, No! Rockstar didn't think of it and it's not doomsday bunker so patched. But you can encounter hackers that spawn money bags but since they but the new dlc content they are a-ok. With GTA 6 being online focused I fear it will be another tedious game that has little entertainment value. But on a plus side I have a few ideas that can make GTA fun again. 1: none grind or money intensive stuff. 2: let player customized they're cars more. I don't care if it's restricted to one car, let me paint it with a crappy watered down version Microsoft paint, let me put on a few weapon turret on it and that would be fun as shit! 3. Let player blow up other people's cars. It's a game about crime and you are punishing me for commiting crime. That's like how cod won't allow swearing in a war game. 4: apartments. The casino update took a step in the right direction. Just let me put in furniture in my apartment that cost $400,000. Don't care if it's as simple as saints row 2, just let me customize my stuff. Any way that's my rant and ideas, I don't mind you opinions and further welcome it. I just wanted to get this off my mind.

So, today i won the taipan at the lucky wheel... i was so happy because i already bought the taipan before and i couldn't wait to sell the one i already had and make some money. I have a lot of cars, and every time i win a car at the lucky wheel (i won 3 times) i sell the car i already have for a good amount of money. But for some obscure reason, this time i can sell the car that i already have, for the same amount of money as the the one i won at the casino and it's about 147k, which is only the value of all the upgrades without considering the value of the car itself. I expected to make at least 1.2/1.3 millions but i just got like a tenth of it and this is absolute shit.
So i got a question, do you guys think that it's just a glitch or rockstar did this shit in the last patch?

So, today i won the taipan at the lucky wheel... i was so happy because i already bought the taipan before and i couldn't wait to sell the one i already had and make some money. I have a lot of cars, and every time i win a car at the lucky wheel (i won 3 times) i sell the car i already have for a good amount of money. But for some obscure reason, this time i can sell the car that i already have, for the same amount of money as the the one i won at the casino and it's about 147k, which is only the value of all the upgrades without considering the value of the car itself. I expected to make at least 1.2/1.3 millions but i just got like a tenth of it and this is absolute s**t.
So i got a question, do you guys think that it's just a glitch or rockstar did this s**t in the last patch?