For too long we've been left in the dark, players who have grown up around the Grand Theft Auto series and throughout DMA Design and Rockstar Games' magnificence. The GTA series has amassed billions of fans around the world who have since come together in arms to fight back for GTA Online!

When GTA Online was first released, it was a masterpiece. People thought no-one could top GTA V and all current triple-A titles at the time. There was plentiful things to do, opportunities for casual gamers to hardcore gamers and even the roleplayers. It's not taken that long for GTA Online to become a completely different culture. There has always been griefers, always been no-gooders but now lobbies are ripe and worse than ever before.

What happened to teaming up with your crews to get contact missions done, racing through the streets and enjoying the beautiful scene of Los Santos? How is it now that for every update you need to spend millions on assets just to continue? When did the game turn into grinding for the next virtual car. This shift in culture has brought a completely new player base to the game. The majority of players who have been around to witness Rockstar's rice to prominence in the gaming industry and coming out on top of about a million more gaming companies have now seen the demise of GTA, GTA Online and all hope is lost for the future of any games. Why must we pay £50, £60 and even £70+ for a game only to be nagged to spend more and more for the same experience we got 10 years ago, not to mention the base price was a fraction of what it is today!

Now GTA Online has attracted a larger culture of younger gamers, which isn't a problem because almost all of us started out at such young ages and it wouldn't be fair to say they were the problem - although they're not. The issue is GTA Online is turning more and more into a Saints Row themed, pay-to-win, HD-mobile-game-lookalike.

For PC users there are a multitude of modifications available free of cost: Rage Multiplayer, Five Multiplayer, Grand Theft Multiplayer and GTA Network. In all of these modifications there are servers which cater to anyone and everyone, just like Vice City Multiplayer, San Andreas Multiplayer and Multi Theft Auto have done in the past. Over ten years of consistent enjoyment for millions of players around the world and now these modifications for GTA V are becoming the norm. People are reporting about them, they're showing up more and more in media.

We're begging you Rockstar to actually listen to us for once and realise we don't want businesses, we don't want multi-million dollar vehicles, we don't want armoured, armed, flying bikes. We want more interiors, more NORMAL vehicles, more weapons and just the same old GTA Online we love. We're also asking this of Red Dead Redemption 2 as this is the last straw for many and if the game becomes as messed up as GTA Online I'm very afraid you'll lose a lot of your fan base to third-party developers who actually care about the community.

A few links for those who are intrigued: 
https://www.reddit.com/r/GTA/comments/8my4a3/the_flying_bike_ruined_gta_online/
https://www.reddit.com/r/GTA/comments/8n6pky/does_anyone_know_how_to_get_into_a_solo_public/
https://www.reddit.com/r/GTA/comments/8mx4xu/take_two_mess/
https://www.reddit.com/r/GTA/comments/8mltmx/are_you_worried_about_gta_vi_because_of_rockstars/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdjjkLORTlE