However, even with similar content from the features already available in GTA Online, Rockstar Games will presumably want to innovate with new modes and features as well.
In terms of the specific content itself, the expectation of a new version of Grand Theft Auto Online is that the multiplayer mode reaches a similar extensiveness as the current version.
GTA Online did a similar thing when businesses and apartments were added to the game, seemingly out of nowhere, and the Diamond Casino update coming years after. A new GTA Online should follow a more consistent roadmap so fans know what to expect. Regardless of what those innovations become, Grand Theft Auto Online should still implement an incremental approach to content that the current iteration of the multiplayer mode has done. Things like offices and gun-running being immediately available in GTA Online would be fine, but releasing the multiplayer experience in a top-heavy strategy could mean plenty of lag time between release and the next big update. However, iterating on GTA Online, fans are expecting Rockstar Games to innovate the multiplayer experience beyond what's in GTA Online already. GTA Online's potential "sequel" should be more than just CEOs, bunkers, and cargo run missions again, though those features wouldn't be wildly unwelcome. Fan expectations will be high regardless, but many will expect new and innovative ways for players to similarly sink hundreds of hours into the game as they have with GTA Online currently. RELATED: Grand Theft Auto Online Players Recreate Mario Kart RaceĪn Incremental and Consistent Roadmap For GTA Online ContentĪ new Grand Theft Auto Online would undoubtedly have to surpass its current iteration, assuming it will be revised alongside Grand Theft Auto 6's eventual release. Will the existing version of GTA Online be rendered obsolete in favor of GTA 6's version? Or will it be something far more ambitious that adopts a similar design? However, it is interesting to consider how GTA Online will evolve alongside Grand Theft Auto 6's release, because it does genuinely bring up a lot of questions. Of course, in the meantime, Rockstar Games will continue to support the current iteration of Grand Theft Auto Online. Rockstar Games is reportedly not planning to release GTA 6 until several years from now, supposedly around 2025. Now, GTA Online has ballooned in size, and has quickly become one of the most popular games ever made.Īs for Grand Theft Auto 6, development is ongoing and largely remains a mystery for now. A lack of meaningful content, tons of connection issues, among other things marred the release of GTA 5's multiplayer mode. Surprisingly, there was a time in GTA Online's short history where the multiplayer offering wasn't nearly as popular as it is now. However, the sprawling GTA multiplayer experience the game has become today is nothing like what Grand Theft Auto Online launched as. When it initially launched, Grand Theft Auto 5's multiplayer component was still under development and was eventually delayed to accommodate the singleplayer release.