GTA Online Is Full Of Abandoned Modes (kotaku.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: GTA Online just had its most active month ever. It is consistently one of the top-selling games on Steam, Xbox and Playstation. It is always in the top 10 of the best selling games each year. The community is huge. Yet players looking to play a wide variety of modes modes will have trouble finding anybody to play with or against.

The problem, paradoxically enough, is an overabundance of content. GTA Online has a huge variety of things to do, including missions, races, heists, and deathmatches. When the game first launched, this variety was great. But the game has only gotten bigger. Now, after four years and dozens of updates, GTA Online almost feels too big and empty. The player base has spread out across too many jobs and events, making it hard to play anything but the latest new thing.

Comments

Re:SNAFU

[Zaelath]

What do you mean you can't find 40 people to raid Molten Core at level 60?

Shouldn't be too hard to solve

[Yath]

They need to select a few featured daily modes and offer some reward for doing those. Rotate all the modes through this, changing the list on a regular basis. That will concentrate the player base while still allowing people to experience variety.

Re:Shouldn't be too hard to solve

[rtb61]

Describing GTA V multiplayer is as simple as this, you start with a pistol and a couple of clips of ammo and your real world wallet, you go up against people with machine guns with exploding ammo who have already emptied their wallet. Sure you can grind, but grinding anything what so ever is entirely dependent upon the charity of other players who already have gear, ohhh yeah fun gaming. Other than that, walk up to a player let him kill your character and repeat, see how many times they will do it before they get tired of you indifference to it, generally about 5 times but for some it come be double digits. Get bored and get police to chase you, as many as possible as the idiot game threatens you with "every player will attack you". The whole game is targeted at sharks cards pay to win and nothing else, the single player is OK and the only thing worth paying for, wait until the game hits 1/3 normal price, the only time worth buying it, as the multiplayer is shite, except for the very juvenile, psychopaths and narcissists for whom cheating is winning (buying shark cards as basically legalised cheating) and fair play is stupid but the single player is fun, I guess because you get to avoid juvenile psychopathic narcissists, except of course the ones you play in the game.

I can sadly confirm this.

[AbRASiON]

I played quite a lot at the start of the release (PS3) and then played some more on the higher def re-release on PS4, but ultimately dropped it for over a year.

I've returned to the game and while I still have a fairly reasonable leveled character and I've actually accomplished most 'normal' missions in the game, I am having real difficulty finding anyone for one of the earlier heists, which is actually a shame.

There actually *IS* a lot of 'single player feeling' (or at least co-op feeling) content in the game, for those who don't want to just shoot each other (think, Left 4 Dead)
Many of the missions still have proper voice acting, good comical writing, utilising some of the B tier single player characters (Lester, Lamar).

If you're a fan of the single player game and of the gameplay in-itself, there *IS* enough there to at least push out another ...10 to 30 hours of gameplay which feels, /mostly/ like the single player. It's quite fun.

Alas, can't partner up for a heist, at least not without coordinating friends and that is a little difficult as an older, time constrained gamer.