10 Things NOBODY Wants To Admit About GTA Online

9. Making Money Is A Tedious Grind

GTA Online Bikers Update
Rockstar

Of course, the obvious rebuttal to the game being built around microtransactions is that you can still play and enjoy all of GTA Online's content for free. You can still earn money from playing the game at the end of the day, so even if it does take a little while to earn, Shark Cards are still only optional, right?

Well, in a manner of speaking, and this is the issue with GTA Online - earning money feels like a job in and of itself. You don't play the game simply to enjoy yourself and try the new content; you have to spend hours grinding heists, contact missions or - god forbid - businesses in open lobbies to get a consistent payout.

That means doing the same tasks over and over, all the while the game keeps advertising all the content you can't play while you're grinding.

It's just properly naff. Yes heists are still fun and yes the missions are in and of themselves enjoyable, but if the main goal is to make money and you're striving towards a financial objective, it can all feel a bit hopeless. The main objective of any game should be to have fun, but locking content behind a massive paywall and giving players the option of either paying to win or grinding for hours is anything but.

Advertisement
Content Producer/Presenter

WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.