The pre-orders for GTA 6 have started, and the entire gaming world is in a state of emergency. MeinMMO author Cedric Holmeier sees through the move by Rockstar Games and identifies a significant drawback.
After putting us on the quiet step for over a year, the studio is now doing the exact opposite: love bombing. Within a week, they have not only revealed the cover art, but also an ultimate edition, a pre-order bonus, and published 50 new photos.
MEGA!
– is probably what almost every fan of the game is thinking, while overlooking minor drawbacks such as Day 1 Content
behind a paywall and CD cases with download codes, completely ignoring the biggest problem of GTA 6: the multiplayer.
Grand Theft Auto VI is meant as a single-player experience
Hidden small in a FAQ from Sony, it was communicated to all players that GTA 6 is a single-player experience. Yes, even in GTA 5 the online mode came later, but so far Rockstar has been completely silent about the multiplayer mode.
However, GTA 5 has achieved its long-lasting success over 13 years not through Trevor, Michael, and Franklin, but through the multiplayer that offers the ultimate sandbox for players. It was to be expected that GTA 6 would initially start as a single-player game. The developers want players to first explore the lovingly designed world with the full story.
What is missing, however, is something concerning the much more important mode. So far, it hasn’t even been confirmed that GTA 6 will have a multiplayer mode. The future of GTA Online is completely unclear, and while I, just like you, am probably already looking forward to Jason and Lucia, I wonder what I will do four weeks after release during the Christmas season.
Because let’s be honest: A GTA release in 2026 is no longer defined by a completed story, but by the promise of an endless playground. Whoever releases a GTA today that does not provide a seamless connection to an online world after the credits delivers an unfinished product that does no justice to the franchise in any way.
Without a multiplayer that picks up where GTA Online left off, the game will fade into irrelevance in players’ preferences faster than Rockstar can say Shark Cards
. Hunting Bigfoot, getting 5 stars, and tuning the seventh car will not keep me engaged with GTA 6.
I have spent hundreds of hours in the online mode of GTA even before GTA 5 was released. Even in San Andreas, thousands of players came together and laid the foundation of the now-popular online modes. The online mode, where I can have fun with friends and strangers, role-play, or simply pass the time, has kept me engaged for so long. Without it, every GTA title since 2004 would probably have been left untouched after a few weeks, and that now threatens to happen with part 6.
Hope dies last
It is unlikely that Rockstar will offer no multiplayer for GTA 6. They have acquired too many developers of the online modes in recent years and fully integrated them into their own development team.
At the same time, this also raises expectations. The role-playing sector alone has become such a large market since the first attempts in GTA: San Andreas that it could make for its own game.
The heists from GTA 5 are so popular that they now even compete with PayDay, and thanks to FiveM, there are endless fun servers that turn racing games, PvP, and arenas into a whole new GTA.
That is exactly why it is so exciting and frustrating to see what GTA wants to deliver here and why, to this day, they haven’t even bothered to inform us about what is to become of GTA Online. Because aside from all the hype: a GTA 6 without multiplayer could even become a major flop.
Are you also worried about the multiplayer as much as I am? Or do you think we don’t need to worry? Feel free to let me know in the comments! Recently, I took the effort and found 33 details in the cover of GTA 6, including 2 real locations: 33 details from the cover art of GTA 6 that you missed
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