GTA Online’s community is in limbo while hype builds for GTA 6
polygon.comGrand Theft Auto Online started as a mere side attraction in Grand Theft Auto 5 before it expanded into its own colossal beast. GTA Online has since made billions of dollars and is regularly updated with sizable new chapters that include cameos from real-world celebrities like Dr. Dre. The game is now an MMO in its own right, serving as a replacement for the single-player DLC chapters that Rockstar used to release. But with Grand Theft Auto 6 on the distant horizon, GTA Online players are starting to sweat a little.
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My friends and I have all sunk over a decade into GTA Online; I’ve personally played on and off since around 2013. We all started as humble drug dealers, picking up packages from the Southside and making a few hundred bucks at a time. Now, we’re all multimillionaires, rolling around in super cars, owning nightclubs, arcades, and luxurious residential suites. If we want a change of pace, we can go pull a heist on a casino or crime lord’s private villa, or pick some missions from our massive underground bunker.
Few live online games have been trucking for this long. For every Warframe or World of Warcraft, there are a dozen games that have either quietly entered maintenance mode or shut down entirely. GTA Online is even still being updated.
However, Rockstar hasn’t come close to announcing any details on an online game mode for the next game, and we’re still a year out from even getting the core campaign of Grand Theft Auto 6. (Polygon has reached out to Rockstar for clarification and will update if we receive a response.) The result is that players of both GTA Online and private role-play servers have to sit, wait, and speculate. In some ways, it’s an exciting proposition — the jump between the physics and graphics of GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 was huge, and presumably we’ll see even more improvements in the next GTA. But the question remains: What happens to all the progress that players have currently earned in GTA Online?
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