GTA Online's upcoming Bikers update, which will be released on the 4th of October, has been kicking up a lot of dust in the gaming press. It's fitting too that it should be stealing headlines, seeing as we're talking about one of the most hotly anticipated DLC updates for the game since release. Online maintains a growing and thriving biker sub-community who haven't been represented yet unlike the racers.
Bikers was first leaked a good long while ago, however as is the case with all leaks no matter how plausible-looking, we were cautious about coming to any conclusions, as anything less than official news has the risk of being fake. The DLC was finally officially announced last week, sending the GTA Online community off its rails.
While Rockstar has incorporated fan suggestions into GTA Online in a limited manner before, the devs usually did whatever they felt like doing and did not really conform to public requests and opinion in their content.
Meanwhile, the public was clearly wishing for a biker themed DLC. Requests for it popped up in all GTA related fan communities. Reddit was full of suggestions for it, and comment sections under Newswire posts had a few commenters calling for a biker DLC regardless of the topic of the post itself. The demand was obvious.
And then came a petition, calling on Rockstar to develop and release a biker themed DLC. Currently, the number of signatures on the petition are at 18,396. The petition also contained a rudimentary design outline of what kind of features the proposed DLC should countain, such as customization options, new bikes, returning bikes from other GTA games and clubhouses for the MCs.
While it is true that these are all pretty much necessary when creating an update with this theme, and Rockstar has not cited the petition in any way via its posts, it could be interesting to note that as far as we know every single point described by the petition will be in the update. Every. One.
We're not saying the petition alone, which had the signatures of a tiny, minute fraction of the total GTA Online player base, drew Rockstar to create the DLC, however it obviously contributed to the effort. What this does indicate is that Rockstar is now more open towards producing the content the community wants it to produce, as opposed to producing the content they think the community will like.









