All the way back in 2013, GTA 5 came out and to say that it was a huge success would be an understatement. The game has raked in over $6,000,000,000 (yes that's billion!) for Rockstar since it first came out seven years ago. With as much money as the game has made the developer, you'd think that after seven years that everything would be much better with it then it was when it first came out. It's gotten tons of updates and for the most part, I'll give credit where credit is due. GTA 5 Online for the most part is a great experience and can become quite addictive.
There's three main issues that I have with it though.
The first is the damn loading times to get into GTA 5 Online. Why the fuck does it take so long? Seriously, I thought that with getting faster internet and an SSD that it would connect much quicker and while it does connect a bit quicker, the loading time for it to connect to Online is the worst of any game that I've ever played. This should be able to be patched or updated to become a lot faster. It's not 2013 anymore.
Secondly, my biggest complaint BY FAR are hackers. At this point, there's no excuse for it Rockstar. I'm not talking about the hackers who cheat to give themselves more money or things like that. I'm talking about the hackers who make other players lives a miserable hell. Just earlier, I got soft-locked because a hacker kept having me commit suicide because he got pissed after I legitimately killed him in a 1 on 1 shootout. Shortly after, the game said that I kept killing myself as soon as I would respawn. I couldn't turn on passive mode, I couldn't connect to another lobby, and I couldn't even exit out of the game without using task manager to get me out of it. When I did that, GTA 5 really didn't like that and it was such a pain in my ass. I had to relaunch the game and wait several more minutes just to be able to connect to another lobby again.
It's bullshit like this that made me stop playing years ago and while it luckily doesn't happen in most games, it's still a big fucking problem.
Rockstar, you'll ban people who you think are using glitches to get money in the game because it could possibly take away from your bottom line, but the hackers who make other players lives a miserable hell seemingly get ignored. Why do you not have paid moderators in every lobby monitoring shit like this? I know you have cash flowing out of your pores at this point so there's really no excuse for it.
Lastly, why all the censorship when it comes to in-game chat? I can understand wanting to censor stuff like racial slurs and whatnot, but even just cuss words in general get censored quite a bit. Have you forgotten that this is Grand Theft Auto, a series that's known for causing controversy because of it's subject matter? The characters cuss and kill like it's nothing in the story, but in Online it's a problem? C'mon Rockstar, we're not 12... well, at least most of us aren't.