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GTA Online is flooding with new players, and it’s causing chaos - Polygon
Jun 29, 2020 1 min, 17 secs

It’s never been more tempting to get into Grand Theft Auto Online, and that’s by design.

In May, Rockstar flung open the gates to Los Santos by giving away Grand Theft Auto 5 on the Epic Games Store for a limited time, along with millions of in-game dollars just for logging in.

Rockstar has never confirmed the game’s exact player base or given a ballpark figure, but Grand Theft Auto 5 has sold over 130 million copies, which gives it a massive potential population.

But as I’ve recently learned from my time in the game, new players who don’t know how anything works tend to cause problems in GTA Online.

Just as experienced players try to pull off the perfect quick heist for lots of cash, their new companion goes bumbling through the level, alerting guards and turning a smooth job into a shitshow?

“It’s brutal sometimes,” says PJ, a new GTA Online player who picked up the game at the end of 2019, over Twitter.

Old players then occasionally wipe them off the face of the Earth, either in response to a slight, or just to spite the new folk filtering into the game.

GTA Online launched in 2013, but the game is still going through growing pains.

It’s a good problem for Rockstar to have, and in time, these newbies will learn the ways of the game (or quit in favor of a less cut-throat player base.) For now, though, it’s fascinating to see how Online is settling into the haves and have-nots

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